... Andrew Princz ... ... ontheglobe.com ... Contact Information: ontheglobe.com Tel: [1] 514.605.7920 Email: aprincz@ontheglobe.com Dancing at the Abuja Carnival, Nigeria Photo bv Jura Nanuk

... biography ... Editor and publisher of the travel portal ontheglobe.com, Andrew Princz is an author, broadcaster, motivational speaker and a chronicler of voyages. A proponent of travel and tourism he has done extensive reporting from around the globe, having visited almost fifty countries conducting tourism promotion and country awareness projects from India to Ecuador, Nigeria to Colombia. "Travelling the globe is an invaluable privilege," says Andrew Princz. "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 simply magical, and bring people together." Andrew Princz was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal Europe, and continues to contribute to the The Jerusalem Report and Ballet International Tanz Aktuell. He has contributed to numerous international publications including CNN Traveller, The Montreal Gazette and The Toronto Star, the Chinese monthly Cultural Geographic, The Art Newspaper, ArtNews, and Deutsche Presse Argentur. He is also a broadcaster appearing on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) program Dispatches, and has also appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Andrew Princz founding editor of the Budapest 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. He is most in his element when found in some remote part of the world. Be it dancing with Nigerians after having participated in a regatta at the Abuja Carnival, discovering the natural habitat on the Galapagos Islands, or standing on the edge of the towering Kalandula waterfalls in central Angola. Andrew Princz is the author of Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary. He has completed tourism promotion projects in Angola, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel and Nigeria. A member of the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC), he is also a city-expert for homeandabroad.com, and a country-ambassador for eturbonews.com. Andrew Princz is also 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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