by Andrew Hempstead | Nov 16, 2022 | Canadian Rockies, Guidebooks, New editions
Although travel restrictions to Canada were lifted earlier this year, International travellers have not returned to pre-pandemic numbers. That said, Banff was as busy as ever this summer with local and domestic travellers filling hotels, restaurants, campgrounds, and...
by Andrew Hempstead | Mar 4, 2022 | Blog, Canadian Rockies, Photography
Buying and selling photographs in 2022 has changed greatly. It wasn’t that long ago that I was selling golf course and rodeo photos through a major stock agency, paying Agpix for a daily email want list, and relying on Cradoc software for photo pricing. How...
by Andrew Hempstead | Aug 16, 2021 | Canadian Rockies, Guidebooks, New editions
Avalon Travel has been publishing books in their new “Best of Parks” series for a few years, but all titles have been to U.S. parks. I was approached by the company last year to co-author a new book in the series that would combine Glacier National Park...
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 | Feb 28, 2020 | Canadian Rockies, Guidebook History, Guidebooks
Since the first edition of Moon Alberta was published in 1995 (right), the design of Moon covers has evolved greatly. At that time, Moon was the only major guidebook company that did not use a corporate colour on their covers, and every cover featured a different...
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...
