The road less traveled: Tony Wheeler at TEDxQueenstown

Tony Wheeler created Lonely Planet after travelling Asia's 'hippie trail' in the early 1970s. Today, after 100 million books, offices on three continents and everything digital from phone apps to websites, inflight infotainment systems to ebooks, the business has moved on to new owners, giving Tony even more time to venture down roads less travelled.
Post LP his activities have included the Planet Wheeler Foundation which supports educational and health projects in the developing world and the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing & Ideas in Melbourne.
Travel to the world's more 'edgy' locales has always fascinated me. I want to get my audience to think about what this means through my stories from travelling along George W Bush's 'Axis of Evil' for Bad Lands and the lessons I've been learning from my recent Dark Lands travels.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

[@michelserpette2188]

First time I see a video of the man who just guided my trip in China in 1985 (the famous green book at the times) and then with the yellow bible throught South east Asia (I still own that one version of 81 or 82 ?). Thank you Tony you were inspirational !

[@SirFranex]

Great video, hi to all my classmates watching this an hour before our lesson

[@kentejowski]

siema franek

[@rossmcdougal6371]

this is inspirational

[@RickshawRaider]

A fun video; thanks!

[@dragony3931]

from North Korea to South Korea, 20m journey through 2,000,000m road
still you are lucky...

[@foysalmohammadshaan9368]

:)