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Download a tour, then tour downtown. Let the podcast be your guide.

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 History Channel, are plugging into podcast audio tours – entire self-guided tours that can be put on an iPod.

Travelers need only download and head downtown. Once they get to a certain street or building, they hit "play," and the music files deliver a digital dose of history.

By Chris Gaylord | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

Full Story: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0412/p13s01-litr.html?s=hns

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