Wiley Buys Travel Firm

-- Publishers Weekly, 10/19/2006

John Wiley has acquired Whatsonwhen Ltd., a U.K.-based provider of travel-related online content, technology and services. The company operates the whatsonwhen.com Web site, which features a calendar of cultural events held around the world. Whatsonwhen, which has 18 employees, also designs travel-related Web sites for other companies and has used content from Wiley’s Frommer’s unit in creating sites for its clients, who include Hilton Hotels and the Discovery Channel.