Andrew Princz

Andrew Princz (October 28, 1970 – June 24, 2011) was a journalist, editor, and publisher of ontheglobe.com. He has done reporting from around the globe, visiting almost sixty countries conducting tourism promotion and country awareness projects, spearheading the concept of cultural navigation, a form of modern-day global exploration whereby the traveler takes an empathetic approach to the cultures that he comes across. He has contributed to CNN Traveller,^[1] The Wall Street Journal,^[2] The Toronto Star, CBC.ca,^[3] The Montreal Gazette,^[4] the Chinese monthly Cultural Geographic, The Art Newspaper, and ARTnews. Princz was founding editor of the Budapest-based monthly DT - Diplomacy and Trade.

He was the holder of a BFA in Art History from Concordia University. Princz had contributed to several of Frommer's Eastern European guidebooks, and was the lead author of Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian Stories of the 1956 Revolution,^[5] a book about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

On June 24, 2011, Princz died from a heart attack while in Quito, Ecuador.^[6]

Works

• Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary ISBN 978-0-471-77819-6 (John Wiley & Sons; 2006)
• Frommer's Eastern Europe ISBN 978-0-470-08958-3 (John Wiley & Sons; 2007)
• Frommer's Europe by Rail ISBN 978-0-7645-9951-4 (John Wiley & Sons; 2006)
• Frommer's Europe ISBN 978-0-471-92265-0 (John Wiley & Sons; 2006)
• Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian Stories of the 1956 Revolution ISBN 978-0-9781612-0-0 (ontheglobe.com, 2006)