Travel guide publisher Lonely Planet is to be sold by BBC Worldwide to US-based media company NC2, following BBC Trust approval. BBC Worldwide has agreed the sale of the business, which it has owned 100% of since 2011, having paid £130m over two stages.

BBC Worldwide will receive AU$75m (£51.5m) for 100% of Lonely Planet...

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Headline has acquired a second travel memoir by Ben Hatch, Road to Rouen, the follow-up to Are We Nearly There Yet?

Deputy publishing director Sarah Emsley bought world English rights in the book from Philip Patterson at Marjacq. Road to Rouen follows the Hatch family as they travel across the Channel and...

Google has bought the travel brand Frommer's from John Wiley & Son, in a move that sees the internet company bolster its content businesses. Google already owns the restaurant guide Zagat, and recently integrated its reviews into its Google + Local service.

Neither John Wiley nor Google has indicated what the latter paid for...