How I Wrote My First iPhone Travel App
Updated: 2010-04-30 11:07:44
For someone born B.C. (before computers), writing a mobile travel application seemed a daunting task. However, all of us in the travel writing industry know that mobile apps are the next paradigm shift in our business, so I knew I had to learn the technology and try to get a foot in the door of that growing market.
I partnered with an established company, Sutro Media, to publish a travel guide app on my adopted hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida.
As they always say -- whoever “they” are -- “Write what you know.” Sutro already had a relationship with Apple, a template, and several published and successful travel guides, so it made more sense than veering off on my own into cyber and c-fone space.
Esha's first submission to GoNOMAD was about her hike to Gertrude's Nose in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York State with her husband, photographer Pinaki Chakraborty.
We loved the story and photos, and since then Esha and Pinaki have done stories about many of their trips along the East Coast from Assateague Island all the way to Magnificent Maine.
Do you love to travel? Do you wish you could have the best travel resources all in one place, right at your finger tips, to ask all your burning travel questions? If so, the perfect place for you is the seventh annual New York Times Travel Show presented by American Express at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, February 26-28, 2010.
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Being the cultural hot-seat of India has never been easy. Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta was the capital of India under the British Raj until the year 1911. Known for its passion for cricket (thanks to the British) and rosogollas (a savory sweet), the city’s heritage is too rich and varied to be captured in a three-week holiday. So I did the next best thing. I thought of showcasing the city’s favorite festival, Durga Pujo.
Spirituality seeps deep into the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania and it has been a pilgrimage site for many years. On a windy day, I spent hours just wandering around the hundreds of thousands of crosses, written messages and rosaries left by those making the pilgrimage.
During the time when Lithuania was known as the Lithuania Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR, the Hill of Crosses was bulldozed completely in 1961, 1973, and 1975. To further dampen the spirit of Lithuanian nationalism, waste and sewage were dumped all over the area.
Pope John Paul II visited September of 1993, declaring it was a place of "hope, peace, love and sacrifice," and since then thousands of visitors have come to wonder, as I did.
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In our ongoing efforts to assist those in Qinghai who suffered greatly from the Yushu earthquake, WildChina follows our peers in the travel world and their suggestions for providing aid to the area, in addition to providing our own insights.
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WildChina is always in regular contact with guides to plan trips, create itineraries, survey new destinations, and more. Through this communication, our colleagues learn about local day-to-day life in provinces all over China – the stories that we might not find when reading a newspaper, magazine, or news site.
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WildChina deeply thanks our friends, partners, and clients for their continued interest in helping those in need in Yushu, Qinghai province, which was recently hit by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake.
As we have received many emails from past clients and friends asking about the situation, we wanted to provide further on-the-ground news from Yushu.
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Michael Zhao, of New York-based Asia Society’s CHINA GREEN, has produced another incredible video on environmental change in China and its societal and cultural implications for the Chinese people. WildChina was happy to contribute photos for such a meaningful video.
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