by Andrew Hempstead | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, British Columbia, COVID, Travel with children
I cancelled all work-related travel for this year, but our family also wanted some ocean time, so we decided to head out to Vancouver Island and stay in a self-contained property, thereby minimizing risk to ourselves or others. Driving would have entailed food and gas...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 25, 2020 | Banff, Blog, Canadian Rockies, COVID
Due to the pandemic, tourism in 2020 in the Canadian Rockies is shaping up very differently than usual. I am assuming that visitors will not be allowed to enter Canada for much of this year, meaning that the millions of tourists from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the...
by Andrew Hempstead | Apr 18, 2020 | Banff, Blog, COVID
Riding out Covid 19 in Banff is no different to doing so anywhere else in the world. But there is a big difference for the town itself. As a tourist resort that attracts millions of visitors annually, most of the residents rely on the tourism industry for an income,...
by Andrew Hempstead | May 27, 2019 | Atlantic Canada, Blog, Guidebooks
As the proud new owners of a mapping company (gemtrek.com), 2018 was very busy for us. But sales of Moon Atlantic Canada had been very strong over the last year, so I was asked to write an update for spring 2019 publication. It was mostly updating prices and keep...
by Andrew Hempstead | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog, Guidebook History, Guidebooks
For over four decades, Moon guidebooks have been trusted companions for independent travelers the world over. But the books have evolved greatly–beginning with photocopied notes sold at Australian hippy markets to slick, full colour books distributed worldwide. One...
by Andrew Hempstead | Jul 28, 2018 | Blog, Canadian Rockies, Coffeetable book
Key West Travel had been purchasing my Canadian Rockies coffeetable book for each of their guests for many years and recently approached me about developing a custom book designed especially for Key West guests. The end result is a smaller trim size that the regular...
