Andrew Princz
Travel journalist, author and cultural navigator Andrew Princz has done extensive reporting from around the globe, visiting more than fifty countries conducting tourism promotion and country awareness projects from India to Ecuador, Nigeria to Colombia.
"Travelling the globe is a privilege," says Andrew Princz, the editor and publisher of ontheglobe.com, "Seeing the world through the eyes of its many cultures has allowed me to gain a truly enriching, macro-perspective. Travel, tourism and cultural awareness are experiences which to me are simply magical.”
"ontheglobe.com functions as a kind of hub for global cultural knowledge, bringing together tourism, the arts, and top-notch travel journalism from around the world...
The site combines a bit of National Geographic with a bit of UNESCO-and throws in a touch of Hollywood for good measure."
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Hehas contributed to numerous international publications including Ballet International Tanz Aktuell, CNN Traveller, The Montreal Gazette, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Toronto Star, the Jerusalem Report the Chinese monthly Cultural Geographic, The Art Newspaper, ArtNews, and Deutsche Presse Argentur. He is also a broadcaster appearing on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), and has also appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Andrew Princz is founding editor the monthly DT - Diplomacy and Trade, having interviewed fascinating world-figures including the former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Croatia Stipe Mesic or the Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen. He is most in his element when found in remote parts of the world; be it dancing with Nigerians at the Abuja Carnival, discovering the habitat on the Galapagos Islands, or standing on the edge of the towering Kalandula waterfalls in central Angola.
A member of the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC), holder of a BFA in Art History at Concordia University, Andrew Princz is the author of Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary, and co-authored the same company’s European railway and East European guide. He has completed tourism promotion visits to Angola, Colombia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia and Nigeria.
Andrew Princz is the author and publisher of Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian stories of the 1956 Revolution, a publication used as a tool for educating students about Hungary’s 1956 Revolution.
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