The demand for videos on travel websites is growing as the technology improves and more people have faster connections enabling the fast downloading of videos to their PC. While it's great to see photos of a destination, you can get a fuller picture by watching a video. The CompulsiveTraveler.tv site features a collection of videos shot by travellers for travellers. There videos of destinations all over the world. The video below is of Maastrand in Sweden.
Videos provided by compulsivetraveler.tv
If you live in the US and will be visiting Europe over the next few months. CompulusiveTraveler.tv is hosting the "My favorite European video contest." The prize for maker of the winning video will be a trip to the European country of their choice for two travellers.
Do you prefer to see photos or watch videos on a travel website?
May 4th, 2008 on 5:43 pm
I will admit I’m a slow convert to video. It’s just frustrating when it’s bad video – a bad photo I can glance over quickly, but a bad video takes time to realize it’s not good.
We will be taking quite a bit of video on our upcoming journey from Alaska to Argentina. We’ll be riding bikes, so we’ll have plenty of opportunities to get some good footage! And – one of our sons will be riding on the back of a tandem, so he should be able to get a lot since he won’t have to control a bike.
You can read of our journey at http://www.familyonbikes.org
May 5th, 2008 on 4:46 am
I agree that the quality of travel videos is very variable.
I’m sure you’ll get some great footage of your forthcoming trip, which sounds really interesting.
May 15th, 2008 on 1:37 am
I enjoyed watching this video feels a great impact on Maastrand this is the place I would like to travel in future.
May 15th, 2008 on 1:58 am
Traveller in India, I think that if watching a video makes viewers want to visit a destination, it’s a very effective marketing tool.
November 17th, 2010 on 10:40 am
Dear Blogger
A nice post about emergence of video on travel sites. I also want to share some info with you. Citymedia foundation has launched, a network of 68,000 city specific video sites, where you can share videos about cities and regions across the world. like for Stockholm videos you can visit http://stockholm.vi . You can also find out about other cities that you are interested . Hope to see you there