World travel publishing house Lonely Planet recently announced the winners of their 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards contest. The winner of the sole podcast award in the bunch is the Indie Travel Podcast. Indie Travel Podcast is the brainchild of Craig and Linda Martin, a husband-and-wife team of traveling podcasters. Craig Martin’s profile explains, [...]

The US National Parks Service is getting into podcasting in a big way, and now offers 18 park service podcasts and virtual tours, offering hundreds of audio and video programs that you can get from park websites or iTunes. The podcasts include: Acadia NP Antietam National Battlefield Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP Canyonlands NP [...]

Holland America Line is using shipboard art tour podcasts to showcase the art, antiques and collectables on each of the line’s 13 vessels. The podcasts are provided in Apple’s enhanced podcast format, which lets the company include images of the artworks along with the audio tour. Each tour begins with a welcome message from Holland [...]

Eclectic local podcast New Orleans Podcasting calls itself “an uplifting smorgasbord of short audio interviews featuring an array of vital and interesting individuals”. It is the brainchild of Craig Kraemer of Kraemer Advertising, a New Orleans advertising agency. Although each guest has a different perspective on post-Katrina New Orleans, all share an unshakable faith in [...]

Today is Thanksgiving, and the days surrounding this holiday are the busiest air travel days of the year in the United States. ust in time for that hectic time, the Denver International Airport (DIA) is introducing a new section on its website called Sights and Sounds, including new video and audio podcasts* that highlight interesting [...]

A new series of free, dynamically mapped and customizable sound-seeing tours of Philadelphia debuted today at SoundAboutPhilly.com. The SoundAboutPhilly tours concentrate on lesser-known city experiences and combine interesting tales, fun facts and lively music to tell the area’s story. The tours feature distinctive and varied voices of experts, boutique owners, chefs, musicians and everyday, in- [...]

Vacations By Rail, a Chicago-based specialty travel company focusing on train travel, has launched an audio podcast, The Rail Insider, intended to give listeners a unique prospective on travel by train around the world. Each episode focuses on a specific rail itinerary, train tour, train route or experience.“Many people have never taken a rail vacation [...]

A new video podcast, The Rest of Everest documents a 2003 expedition to the Northeast Ridge route to the top of Mount Everest. The video podcast, created by documentary filmmaker Jon Miller of TreeLine Productions in Colorado, is “the rest” of the footage from the expedition documentary Everest: The Other Side, which premiered on Dish [...]