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 […]

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.‚ÄúMany people have never taken a rail vacation […]