What makes Egghead Tours innovative?
Unlike most walking tour companies, Egghead is not based upon the model of a single entrepreneur creating and owning tour scripts and then hiring guides. To date, the majority of the walking tour companies in New Orleans and elsewhere are based on the premise of collecting information from scholarly and popular sources available in most libraries and then crafting it into a tour. Free and ready access to scholarship drives many of the better history tours offered in New Orleans and elsewhere. Guides are then hired and trained as freelance employees. Egghead is being designed to recognize the intellectual property of all scholars and graduate students who create and lead tours as part of this consortium of tours. After meeting costs associated with running Egghead, scholars are rewarded for sharing their intellectual work with the public as well as their “performance,” i.e., working as engaging guides. Egghead will produce some of its own tours and tour scripts; however, most of the tou
