AudioSnacks.com : Get a Personal Tour At the Location of Your Choice

Thanks to iPod and MP3 technology, getting a personal tour at the location of your choice is easier than ever. Audiosnacks.com (www.audiosnacks.com) takes the hassle out of tour groups -- no more waiting for the entire group to stay together, no more silly questions, no more worrying about tipping the tour guide. Audiosnacks.com has created an online community where visitors can find, purchase, download and listen to unique audio tours that people have created to share the best of their environments.

Of course you've heard of the term "sightseeing." Well, Audiosnacks.com is taking that one step further by providing tours that can only be referred to as "sound-seeing." Audiosnacks.com has jumped on the coat tails of the current boom of podcasting and works the same way as downloading radio shows, video and music to an MP3 player or an iPod. Specifically, audio tour guides provide recorded narrations of their travels. Audiosnacks.com was developed to serve as a portal for the exchange of non-typical travel and destination related information that hasn't been available until now.

Michael Salvatore, Founder and President of Audiosnacks.com commented on the birth of Audiosnacks.com. "…Like many individuals, I love to travel, but I don't love looking like a tourist or being overly committed to a rigid tour group schedule, so the idea for AudioSnacks came to me while traveling the world last year somewhere between the ancient ruins of Machu Pichu and the beautiful beaches of Bali…"

That idea being "wouldn't it be great if I had my own personal tour guide that would accompany me step-by-step on my travels" and thus Audiosnacks.com was born.

Audiosnacks can't be everywhere at once so it relies on its many contributors to provide audio content. Audiosnacks.com offers dozens and dozens of sound-seeing tours and membership is free. Once signed up, visitors can begin finding the perfect audio tour(s), and for a small price can start downloading right away.

Better yet -- for those creative travel writers who want to take their travel articles to the "next level," Audiosnacks.com offers its members the opportunity to become contributors (also free) and create audio tours for sale. The big money to be made occurs with on-going repeat sales of a tour. So the audio-tour that was created for -- let's say -- the nude beaches of Southern Italy, can generate unlimited income (as long as someone traveling to Southern Italy downloads the audio-tour). In this way Audiosnacks.com makes its money, the writer/producer makes his or her money and everyone walks away a winner.

The Audiosnacks homepage (www.audiosnacks.com) has all the information you need. Including the all-important contributors "training page" for would-be producers of sound-seeing audio tours.

Anyone with a basic digital audio-editing system and a microphone can start producing. The audio tours aren't on-going narratives. Instead, audio tours are made of tracks which correspond to sites on a map. If your itinerary walks along 10 locations then your audio tour will have 10 tracks. This audio is downloaded into Mp3 format and sent in to Audiosnacks.com. Visit the training page at www.audiosnacks.com for more information.

Audiosnacks.com seems like a good deal. And downloading a sound-seeing tour is certainly cheaper than putting yourself at the mercy of a tour guide and a group of strangers.

Online now for only about a year, Audiosnacks.com continues to make big strides. The sites's best publicity being word-of-mouth from customers and contributors.