Audio Travel Guides MP3 Podcasts

CAN I ASK YOU A SIMPLE QUESTION ?

DO YOU GO HOME AT NIGHT SWITCH ON THE TELEVISION AND TURN THE SOUND RIGHT DOWN ?

Tim Richards will record anywhere!

No – so why have a website in this broadband age that has no sound ? You’re missing a trick without good, interesting audio.

Online audio will give your website extra character and personality. See the list of some websites using HeartBeatGuides work below – including the official Washington DC and VisitBritain websites.

People will be hearing from the real YOU  ! It’ll be a much more compelling, individual website where visitors also stay longer listening to interesting features or interviews.

Click image to hear the humming bird	Click image to hear head hunters	Click image to hear the geyser discussion

Whether it’s downloadable for people to keep on their i.Pod or phone or “click-and-play” to listen there and then on your website pages you can give them a much warmer welcome than just text pages with photos.

Internet technology has moved on… broadband delivers large files almost instantly; MP3 compression of music and speech also helps with that.

Exact CONTENT is flexible and it’s what YOU want to highlight.

URLs where tourism PODCASTS from Tim Richards can be heard…

GREAT BRITAIN’s official tourism website… Visit.Britain.com has 36 of my guides online. They are loaded according to geographical regions… at … http://www.visitbritain.com/en/about-britain/image-and-sound-gallery/audio-podcasts/south-west.aspx

http://www.visitbritain.com/en/about-britain/image-and-sound-gallery/audio-podcasts/englands-north-country.aspx 

http://www.visitbritain.com/en/about-britain/image-and-sound-gallery/audio-podcasts/south-east.aspx   There are other pages too…

The official tourism website for ENGLAND has the same 36 guides loaded at …

http://www.enjoyengland.com/ideas/heritage-and-culture/podcasts/

WASHINGTON DC and its neighbouring states in the Capital Region commissioned a series of seven half hours in September 2009… http://www.capitalregionusa.org/Travel-Information/Download-Audio-Guides

MINNEAPOLIS in the USA  … http://www.minneapolis.org/page/1/mplstv.jsp  is a series of twenty, themed podcasts covering  history, shopping, pro sports, the theatre scene etc for a major, forward-thinking, US conurbation. Some now partially converted to video – click on “A theater hotbed” and “Milling History” and “World Class Children’s” theatre. Or try the podcast page

Twelve themed tourism podcasts around this interesting area of the USA in  ILLINOIS and IOWA …http://www.visitquadcities.com/site/page.php?page_id=111&section=forvisitors

VIDEO ….. Here are four of a series of thirteen TV programmes I filmed, fronted and edited for  BBC Choice and which were used on UK television … http://vimeo.com/9460368 this one is Istanbul.

http://vimeo.com/9641843 this one is UK narrowboating. And the same pages will show you Sabah in Malaysian Borneo and aGreek Island cruise into Istanbul.

In the UK there are also five English Riviera VIDEOs I filmed and edited. 

Go to http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/site/activities/walking/cockington-estate-country-walk

 http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/site/activities/walking/berry-head

http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/site/attractions/nature/geopark then scroll right to page bottom.

There are SIX hybrid VIDEO walking trails with parallel AUDIO content for TORFAEN …

http://trails.visittorfaen.co.uk/trails.aspx

These have substantial audio and video presenting, script editing and audio content from me.  They mix with recorded reminiscences and actors in character.

 England’s most web-savvy regional tourist organisation aroundTORQUAY has a wide selection of my audio podcasts

http://www.englishriviera.co.uk/site/downloads/podcasts  

ESSEX commissioned eleven audio guides…http://www.visitessex.com/downloads/audio.aspx  

CUMBRIA podcasts at http://www.golakes.co.uk/downloads/podcasts/default.aspx

LEEDS … http://www.visitleeds.co.uk/downloads/

YORK … http://www.visityork.org/downloads/

NORTHUMBERLAND has four themed podcasts… Hadrian’s Wall, the Northumberland Coast… Castles… Keilder Water and the National Park… coast is at  http://www.visitnorthumberland.com/site/attractions/northumberland-coast

Hadrian’s Wall is at http://www.visitnorthumberland.com/site/attractions/castles-and-historic-sites/hadrians-wall

CLASSY HOTELIERS - HILLBROOKE HOTELS

Have podcasts at http://www.themasterbuilders.co.uk/podcasts.html and at http://www.new-inn.co.uk/podcasts.html

In WALES rail company ARRIVA TRAINS which operates most of the network in Wales has commissioned a series of pieces on their scenic west Wales routes… http://www.thecambrianline.co.uk/train_podcast.htm .

TOUR OPERATORS… we’ve done a series of pieces for French Cottage Retreats with high-quality rental properties mainly in the Lot Valley but with some in the Dordogne…

http://www.french-cottage-retreats.co.uk/Region%20Pages/sound.html

 …. The long-established and multi-award winning VFB Holidays who are into villa, gites and escorted tours in Europe. http://www.vfbholidays.co.uk/res_website.aspx?page=directory&supplierCode=VFB&cat1=162 

SWISS SKI and SUMMER RESORT …For a series of pieces for the Swiss ski resort of Villars… http://www.villarsgryon.ch/de/page.cfm/Multimedia/Podcasts   then go to foot of left hand menu …

And the Swiss choc train operated by the Montreux and Bernese Oberland railway at  http://www.goldenpass.ch/modules/video/default.asp?D=Radio_chocolate_train&site=GPL&T=Chocolate+Train+%28radio%29

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Aggregator websites…. People using my material…

The Travel Editor…. http://www.thetraveleditor.com/toplists/general/Podcast_City_Guides/300/

 http://www.thetraveleditor.com/toplists/general/UK_and_Ireland_Audio_Travel_Guide/336/

 LODINGO.com in Australia …

e.g. … http://lodingo.com/_catalog_39664/France

TOURCASTER in the USA… http://www.tourcaster.com/TourDetails.aspx?TourID=606