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Tim Richards’ audio podcast portal is for travellers
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Making his mark Tim Richards
White water rafting in Colorado, experiencing the pristine architecture of the old city centre in Sienna, fishermen on the beaches of Kovalam, and the St. Peter’s square with the church bells ringing in the background. Tim Richards is busy building an Internet audio podcast portal for travellers and holiday goers to sample before packing their bags for adventure.
www.heartbeatguides.com is all about the new age Internet. “Feel the pulse and hear the people,” says Tim, whose rich mp3 audio guides to cities, restaurants, beaches, mountains, cruising, culture and cuisine are selling like hot cakesin cyberspace.
Started in 2006, Yahoo nominated heartbeatguides as one of the best search finds of 2006. “The Internet has gigantic potential in my kind of business.A normal text and picture based website or book will not be able to capture the ambience and atmosphere of a city or tourist spot.” Broadband and mp3 does the trick.
A freelance presenter with BBC Wales who has done national level programmes like ‘Goodmorning Wales’ and ‘Wales Today,’ Tim is now on a spree of international tours, tobuild and update his audio library. Besides Kerala, he has been to other places in India like Jaipur, Delhi, Agra and Goa.
India and Malaysia are by far his favourite destinations. The co-existence of Malay, Hindu and Chinese culture, religion and cuisine in Malaysia, he says, would impress anyone. India is more a ‘people’s place’ and is being increasingly noticed the world over. Tim is making a 30-minute clip about Kerala featuring the backwaters of Allepey, Fort Cochin and the beaches in and around Kovalam.
He regrets that he couldn’t go further north towards Wayanad due to a lack of time. But he says he will be back “for the mountains” soon.
The Leela, Kovalam will be featured inadded to his Hotels Guide audio podcast shortly. Interestingly, the hotels guide at the site comes without charge.
Tim’s rich media files come at about £3.00 a piece payable through a paypal account.
So the next time you plan to travel, or go for a holiday, log onto heartbeatguides.
VISHNU MENON M.
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