Create Travel Videos and Get Your Next Vacation for Free

The video revolution in tourism and travel has created unique opportunities for budding videographers to get free vacations in exchange for creating videos of their tours and hotels. End Quote

You don't have to quit your day job or be an expert in videography, you can simply do this as a hobby to get free vacations.

(1888PressRelease) March 20, 2009 - Are you in need of a good vacation but a bit strapped for cash? Well you're not alone in fact tourism is predicted to decline by about 2 percent in 2009, according to the World Tourism Organisation, as the economic decline hits the tourism industry.

Naturally operators and accommodations are keen to reverse the trend and attract tourists with innovative and cost-effective advertising. Tourism Queensland recently launched its Island Caretaker campaign by getting users to submit a one-minute video application for the "Best Job in the World". It is estimated that the campaign has generated publicity in the realms of 80 million dollars.

Not many tourism businesses will be able to run an international campaign and pay someone $150,000 to laze around an island for 6 month, but businesses are in a position to have videos created to showcase their products. This way they can take advantage of the viral aspect of videos and the free advertising they can gain from sites like YouTube, which has now become the world's second most popular search engine after Google.

Video is particularly beneficial to travel companies not only because of the intangible nature of tourism but also because over half of all travel arrangements are done via the Internet (Nielsen/Netratings) and evidently 3 out of 4 Internet users will watch videos online, with 60% of people making a purchasing decision after watching a promotional travel video according to Hotelmarketing.com.

This creates opportunities for budding videographers and professionals alike and some have already caught on to the trend, Chris Abbot from Australia has been filming snow reports for 5 years in Japan and received several major contracts to promote islands like Vanuatu and Bali.

Vincent Tervooren from Switzerland recently started filming for tourism and one of his first contracts was a video for hotels on the Yucatan Pensinsula in Mexico. Inday Ford films tourist and their encounters with Whale Sharks in Western Australia and David White from Canada recently shot underwater videos in Bonaire, Yap and the Bahamas. Thomas Reissmann from Germany has been shooting promotional travel videos in Africa, Europe and Australia for 3 years and now works as a full-time travel videographer in Australia.

"Once you get started you wonder why you spent so much time sitting in an office and soon you can't go back to a normal 9-5 job, you just get hooked on the life-style," Tom says.

But you don't need to quit your day job or be an expert in videography to get started. People may do this simply as a hobby, just to get free vacations now and then. Also Tom offers people free advice and a manual teaching the basics of videography; tourism marketing and most importantly the art of selling to tourism companies.

You can visit www.filmingholidays.com for more information and contact Tom via his website.

"I feel like I do have the best job in the world, even though I don't get paid 300,000 a year. But I love what I do, and I feel like I should help others to enjoy this kind of lifestyle because it's good to live your dream and it makes me happy when I've inspired another person to go out and find their passion," says Tom.

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