Lonely Planet’s Dublin-based international publishing and intellectual property centre was losing money before the pandemic hit and the travel publisher changed hands in 2020. Irish subsidiaries Lonely Planet Global Ltd and its immediate parent BHL Cumberland Ireland Ltd have – only now – just filed accounts for 2019, showing a consolidated loss of €4.6 million that year. As previously reported, Lonely Planet Global became the “master publisher” of the leading guidebooks and associated publications in 2016, when it acquired brand and content rights for the group outside the Americas. The Irish company was never intended to maximise its bottom line,…