CityListen™ Audio Tours Brings a New Dimension To Travelers With Personal Guided Tours for iPods and MP3 Players

05-20-2008

 

 

 

Local Knowledgeable Guides Provide Consumers With Rich Storytelling Tours in New York and Paris

 

 

NEW YORK, NY – May 19, 2008-- iPods have already changed how people listen to the radio (via podcast), how they buy music (via download), how they watch TV (buying episodes on iTunes), and even how they study and learn (audio textbooks and language labs “on the go”). Now iPods are changing the way people travel.

 

CityListen^™Audio Tours offers a growing portfolio of professionally developed guided walking tours made specifically for iPods and MP3 players.  A downloadable audio walking tour from CityListen offers all of the benefits of a guided walking tour, yet brings with it the flexibility and simplicity of a self-guided experience.

 

The tours are developed and hosted by accomplished guides and historians, each of whom presents in-depth knowledge with a style that is easy and enjoyable to listen to. New York City tour guides, James and Michelle Nevius, recently co-authored Frommer’s 24 Great Walks in New York. Paris tour guide, Dr. Jonathan Miles, is a popular lecturer on travel tours for both American and British universities and author of the critically-acclaimed book, The Wreck of the Medusa.   

 

The current CityListen portfolio includes six tours in New York City: Central Park, Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, Lower Manhattan, Upper East Side and Brooklyn Heights; and three tours in Paris: Isles of the Seine, The Left Bank and The Marais. MP3 files can be purchased via a secure transaction for $7.95 at www.citylisten.com and downloaded immediately for transfer to an iPod or MP3 player. PDF maps for all of the tours can also be downloaded from the site.

 

“Each of our tours is essentially a one-on-one experience with a true expert who is talking to you not only about what you are looking at, but why it’s important, how it got to be like that, how it fits into the greater fabric of the history of the city,” says CityListen™ Audio Tours President, Jonathan Paisner. “There really is no better way to really get to know a city on your own time, at your own pace.”

 

Travel products designed specifically for iPods and MP3 players, like CityListen walking tours are a recent phenomenon—and are getting the attention of savvy travelers. Downloaded tours from CityListen contain about 45 minutes of content, which translates to about a 90+ minute experience, as you will stop to take a break, go shopping or do additional sight-seeing along the route. 

 

CityListen is currently developing additional tours in New York City and elsewhere in the U.S. for release later this summer.

 

About CityListen:

CityListen is a new kind of travel publishing company, creating and electronically publishing downloadable audio walking tours for iPods and MP3 players.

CityListen began creating tours in Spring 2007, with the first titles released in September 2007. Built by a team of talented producers and exceptional tour guides, CityListen creates compelling walking tours that are simple to use and easy to listen to. CityListen Audio Tours is owned by BrandExperienced LLC and is based in New York.

 

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