Excursion podcasts: why not in Russia?
It is much more convenient to travel to unfamiliar places not in a group of tourists, but alone, with a personal guide who will accompany you to the most exotic places of the city, telling fascinating stories about what opens before your eyes. This is possible if the guide is an MP3 player, where the travel program and the guide’s voice are preloaded.
Today, when a digital player is in the pocket of every technophile, there is a noticeable demand for MP3 tours on the tourist market. It turns out that it is very convenient: walk around the city and listen to the virtual guide from the player, writes the NY Times . The network already has several such services.
Organizing an MP3 tour is easy. It's like a regular podcast, but you only need to record it on the go. Walk around the city with a microphone and comment on everything you see (of course, you must first think over the route and sketch out a plan for the excursion - preparation can take several weeks). After that, you can open your website and sell MP3-files via the Internet.
For example, the American Alice Wiener worked as a TV news correspondent for twenty years, so she had to visit different countries for work. She wasted no time and enjoyed studying the culture and history of different countries. After some time, Alice opened her own excursion agency iJourney , where she posted these records for $ 15 per file. She still continues to replenish the collection: Barcelona, ​​Vienna, Rome, Pompey, Florence, Paris, etc. A typical tour audio file has a duration of 75–90 minutes.
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A feature of MP3 tours is their maximum concreteness. The voice in the headphones literally leads a person through the streets, says where to turn and which way to look. No guide can provide this service.
Of course, Mrs. Wiener is not the only American woman involved in this business. She has serious competitors, often much more professional teams. For example, an extensive collection of hiking tours collected on the sites AudisseyGuides.com and Audible.com . In addition, individual museums and tourist sites themselves often upload such “navigation” files to potential visitors online.
Despite the popularity of MP3-players in Russia, excursion podcasts here, it seems, have not yet become widespread, which is rather strange. At least, we could not find a single specialized store MP3-tours.
Today, when a digital player is in the pocket of every technophile, there is a noticeable demand for MP3 tours on the tourist market. It turns out that it is very convenient: walk around the city and listen to the virtual guide from the player, writes the NY Times . The network already has several such services.
Organizing an MP3 tour is easy. It's like a regular podcast, but you only need to record it on the go. Walk around the city with a microphone and comment on everything you see (of course, you must first think over the route and sketch out a plan for the excursion - preparation can take several weeks). After that, you can open your website and sell MP3-files via the Internet.
For example, the American Alice Wiener worked as a TV news correspondent for twenty years, so she had to visit different countries for work. She wasted no time and enjoyed studying the culture and history of different countries. After some time, Alice opened her own excursion agency iJourney , where she posted these records for $ 15 per file. She still continues to replenish the collection: Barcelona, ​​Vienna, Rome, Pompey, Florence, Paris, etc. A typical tour audio file has a duration of 75–90 minutes.
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A feature of MP3 tours is their maximum concreteness. The voice in the headphones literally leads a person through the streets, says where to turn and which way to look. No guide can provide this service.
Of course, Mrs. Wiener is not the only American woman involved in this business. She has serious competitors, often much more professional teams. For example, an extensive collection of hiking tours collected on the sites AudisseyGuides.com and Audible.com . In addition, individual museums and tourist sites themselves often upload such “navigation” files to potential visitors online.
Despite the popularity of MP3-players in Russia, excursion podcasts here, it seems, have not yet become widespread, which is rather strange. At least, we could not find a single specialized store MP3-tours.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4891/
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