Staff at iconic travel publisher Lonely Planet’s Melbourne headquarters are facing up to 100 redundancies in a company restructure.
News Ltd reported that staff were told by Daniel Houghton, director of Lonely Planet parent company NC2, that there would be "changes" to the world’s largest travel guidebook publisher, founded in the 1970s by Tony and Maureen Wheeler.
It is believed the redundancies comprise around a third of all positions at the company’s Australian headquarters.
Staff at the company’s affiliate London and Oakland offices are also expected to be affected, with the restructure focused on centralising editing and commissioning in London.
In March, BBC Worldwide, which had bought Lonely Planet from the Wheelers, sold the publisher to Nashville-based NC2 Media.
Lonely Planet said in a statement it had "announced to staff and contributors a series of changes to its operations in response to a challenging external environment and to position the company for continued success".
