New iPhone App Guides Teens Through the Mean Streets of Paris

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y., July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Paris, travel and the French Revolution...Teens have a new way to explore Paris with the Time Traveler Tours StoryApp Beware Madame La Guillotine: A Revolutionary Tour of Paris, for iPhone and iPod Touch. Tweens, teens and anyone who loves a good yarn and is tired of traditional guidebooks now have a way to explore one of the world's greatest cities using their smartphone. This innovative app, available in English and in October in French, brings history alive through the voice of Charlotte Corday, an infamous figure of the French Revolution.

This first app in Sarah Towle's Time Traveler Tours line represents a breakthrough in travel writing. Towle combines the power of narrative storytelling with the latest in mobile technology to create an app that brings the world's most beloved destinations to life. She calls her product, dedicated to tweens, teens and the young at heart, a StoryApp Tour.

Each StoryApp Tour will focus on one of the world's great cities and provide a daylong interactive itinerary, narrated by a historical figure whose actions helped shape their times. Along with the yarn, these apps give tourists and armchair travelers everything from practical information such as maps, directions, helpful hints, and a restaurant discount to fun activities, puzzles, scavenger hunts and brain-teasers.

The tale, narrated by the young murderess Charlotte Corday in the moments before she is to have her head lopped off, takes you on a dramatic journey and treasure hunt into the sights and sounds of Paris at the time of the Revolution. Corday explains how and why she stabbed radical propagandist Jean-Paul Marat while leading you around central Paris, from the Palais Royal to La Conciergerie on the Ile de la Cite.

Time Traveler Tours StoryApps, www.timetravelertours.com, are ideal for the increasing number of families traveling, as well as young people traveling alone, or in school groups. Extensively researched and great fun, they are the essential travel companions for anyone with a smartphone, sturdy walking shoes and a love of discovery.

Beware Madame La Guillotine will soon be available in French, for both iOS and Android. Forthcoming apps feature three more Paris tours.

Available July 26 at the introductory rate $7.99 US /$7.99 Canada/5.49 pounds Sterling/euro 5.99 itunes.apple.com.

SOURCE Time Traveler Tours