Andrew Princz
Coining the term, Andrew Princz is a cultural navigator. Tourism done a little differently.
Cultural Navigator
Self-styled cultural navigator, Andrew Princz is a travel writer and cultural manager. The editor and publisher of the travel and culture site ontheglobe.com, he has visited more than sixty countries conducting tourism promotion and cultural awareness projects with a focus on tourism promotion the developing world and post-conflict nations.
Andrew Princz has contributed to publications including The Wall Street Journal, CNN Traveller, The Montreal Gazette, The Jerusalem Report, The Art Newspaper and ArtNews. He was the founding editor of the Budapest-based monthly DT – Diplomacy and Trade, and has broadcast on the airwaves of the CBC Radio program Dispatches. Princz does restaurant reviews in Montreal and Quebec City for California-based gayot.com, and through a partnership with travelwatch.ca he edits destination features for American Express travel professionals in the Quebec market. His destination features also appear internationally through partner sites eturbonews.com and traveldailynews.com.
Andrew Princz updated guidebooks Frommer’s Budapest & the Best of Hungary, and Fodor’s Cuba. In 2006, ontheglobe.com published Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian stories of the 1956 Revolution, tales from the 1956 revolution from both sides of the ocean.
Andrew Princz has also worked in the film and television industry, with his experience running the gamut from being a driver to a line-producer. Andrew Princz line produced the Budapest shoot of Fifty Sixers for CBC Television, and worked as a fixer for EuroNews as well as a reality-show for Sony Pictures Television. He also contributed to the development and marketing of large-format IMAX films.
Andrew Princz began his career as an arts manager at a private art gallery. A holder of a BFA in Art History from Concordia University, he has done stints at the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council and the Compagnie Marie Chouinard. He recruited musicians for I Musici de Montreal’s Yuli Turovsky, and went on to tour Europe as the manager of the French-Hungarian contemporary dance company, Compagnie Pal Frenak.
« 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. » homeandabroad.com
“ontheglobe.com is definitely ‘a cut above the rest’ when it comes to scholarship and professionalism. Andrew Princz, the editor, is an experienced journalist and his entries reflect his polished journalistic style of writing. “High-brow” was the first word that came to mind when we visited this site. It was an enjoyable change from the norm.” Travelsitecritic.com
Contact Information:
ontheglobe.com
Tel. : [514] 605 7920
Email : aprincz@ontheglobe.com