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.
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.
Audissey, a CD- and MP3-based travel guide company, recently released a 27-track Boston tour laced with sound effects, theatrical readings, and a pack of local celebrities ready to describe "their" Boston.
Audissey is only one in a quickly growing pack of companies riding the digital airwaves.
MP3 museum tours, both authorized and otherwise, have started to replace those telephone-like portable gallery guides.
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