Bostonista Goes Public
Let us guess: You’ve lived in the area for years but have never actually made much effort to explore the city (and look like a day-tripper? Quel horreur!).
At Bostonista, we love brushing up on our town’s scenic history, but, like you, can’t stomach waddling aboard one of those clunky neon tour tanks and [...]
All Aboard the Audissey
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s nearly 70 degrees out and, according to our typically (in)accurate weather people, the rest of the week calls for more mild temps. This, readers, is the perfect time to practice your 2008 resolutions. You know, the ones about exercising and getting to know your city better.
Take [...]
Written by Steve Holt
Let’s face it – when it comes to highlighting diverse and wonderful locations around the world, words sometimes don’t cut it. Travelers want images. They want sounds. They want local flavor. They want authenticity. They want the next-best-thing to actually being there.
A good option for expanding your travel documentation and reporting into [...]
Boston Public Garden Gets Audio Tour
Aug 22nd, 2008 | By James Lewin
Want to see a great example of a podcast audio tour?
The Friends of the Public Garden in Boston have launched a Public Garden Audio Tour podcast, a self-guided audio walking tour. The audio tour is available as a free download at the Friends of [...]
Walk THIS Way
Published: Dec 19, 2005 Bostonist.com
There’s the Duck Tour, the Trolley Tour, the Freedom Trail, and dozens of walking tours of the city. Steven Tyler may be local, but we can’t be wasting our precious cell phone minutes to hear him talk about it.
When Bostonist once again welcomes our parents into town for the [...]
Audio Tours de force
By Russell Nichols, Globe Staff | March 19, 2006
The tour brings you to the North End, to a nondescript brick building washed out and weathered with white-framed windows.
”Picture this now,” says one of your guides, Robert Fitzpatrick, former chief of the FBI’s organized crime squad in Boston. ”It’s Jan. 19, 1981, [...]
A Walking Tour of Boston- Private Guide Included!
by Esther Friedman
EDGE Travel Contributor
Thursday Nov 17, 2005
When I realize I’ve lived in Boston since 1990, and never walked a guided tour of the freedom trail, or taken a duck boat tour, I wonder if I can really identify myself as a true Bostonian.
Luckily, www.AudisseyGuides.com has made the [...]
Download a Tour, then Tour Downtown
By Chris Gaylord | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Tourism is getting a digital redesign. Many young travelers are tired of the cheesy guided walks and the slow, sometimes pretentious audio tours that have become the staples of urban tourism.So instead, many Gen-Xers, interested in history but used to the [...]
Hearing The Sights
by Hannah Karp, Wall Street Journal
April 21, 2006
For travelers weary of soporific travel tomes, crowded buses and minders with megaphones, another option is arriving: the audio tour… These aren’t the museum guides of old…
[The Boston Audissey] guides listeners through alleyways once used by escaping slaves to a soundtrack of cracking whips, shouts, and [...]
