Lovely, but cheap - Medium-level Administrative Lonely Planet Employee Review

4.0
14 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They are the real deal. People there care about the product, they are enthused for it and they genuinely love travel. They are a caring workplace with a good culture.

Cons

They don't pay very well. Not very impressive management since they were bought out by some reclusive billionaire who doesn't even travel. The owner of the company has not once thought it worth his while to communicate with the staff once in the years he's been the owner. Lack of faith in the upper leadership affected morale on the floor. The travel-publishing industry as a whole is on the decline, rounds of layoffs were a fact of life.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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