5 places to watch free travel video guides

By Ian MacKenzie On May 25, 2007 · 15 Comments

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A few weeks ago, I asked if online travel guides were useful, or just too much information.

SOME READERS AGREED with me, believing an information overload can overshadow the experience.

Others thought online travel guides were useful depending on your situation, and it was unfair to lump all the sites together.

With that said, I figured I would highlight a few websites that provide free travel video guides.

GeoBeats – Short videos on international destinations that highlight history, culture, shopping, food, nightlife, lifestyle, and more. All videos are professionally produced, but thankfully lack a heavily commercial feel.

Zoom and Go – Slick interface and a fairly large selection of travel video clips and longer guides. Also pay for all accepted submissions, based on their own point system.

Traveler Videos – Comprehensive portal that aggregates a fair amount of travel content from a variety of other video websites. The design is a little clunky, but definitely worth poking around.

Youtube Travel – The mother of all video sharing websites shouldn’t be overlooked as as great place to find travel guides. Keep in mind, you may have to sift through the rough to find the gems.

Travelistic – Great interface and high-quality video. Travelistic has a growing database of informative travel content, along with exclusive series and their own show “The Map.”

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http://www.TheEcuaTraveler.com robmeyer

I just spent the past 2 hours mindlessly downloading videos… Thanks for the post though, this is really cool stuff. I need to do some work now though!
http://www.tipsofallsorts.com Clara

I like what I saw at Geobeats and Travelistic. The videos are very well recorded. Thanks for the links.
http://www.geobeats.com Vishesh

Ian – Thanks very much for the mention. We at GeoBeats are avid travelers ourselves and started the venture because we couldn’t find many down to earth and high quality travel videos on international destinations. Our approach is unique in the sense that we don’t license videos or have open submissions. We work very closely with the filmmakers around the world and release only those videos that are created using our guidelines.

So doesn’t matter if it’s a video of penguins in Argentina, world’s highest road in India, or a fancy bistro in Paris, there’s a level of consistency, reliability, and relevancy. Ofcourse, that’s a harder approach and will take us more time to get to thousands of videos, but in the long run, we create a highly valuable video source for travelers. Even today, if you see our library for certain cities like Buenos Aires, Mumbai, Paris, Hong Kong etc. you will see the kind of quality, in depth information that we provide through videos.
http://www.bravenewtraveler.com ian mackenzie

hey all — glad you like the resources. and vishesh, it’s always my pleasure pointing out quality material wherever i find it.
luca

Another good site is http://www.travelleers.com.
They have videos in a simple layout, there’s some good stuff
http://www.videomap.it/en mark

I like search travel videos on http://www.videomap.it/en
it’s very simple and more accurate on google maps
http://Traveling12Feet.com Rikki – Traveling12Feet.com

Is it forbidden to direct you to LonelyPlanet.tv? They have a neat online travel community as well and of course, videos are posted and shared. I’ve done some videos for them (my profile is here: http://lonelyplanet.tv/travelfox) that they have ‘acquired’.

This is a great post over all – it’s good to know amongst the sea of online video communities, there are those that cater primarily to us travelers!

kudos Ian!
http://www.compulsivetraveler.tv Edwin Reed-Sanchez

I am writing you from http://www.compulsivetraveler.tv. We are a website publishing travel video content on the web. We have produced a TV series for over ten years that has aired on CBS and the Travel Channel.

We are developing a list of Bloggers to promote on our site as part of an online travel community. We would like to work with you to promote you on our site, send you press releases and offer you our quality videos to enhance your blog.

We are interested to hear your feedback.

Thank you

Edwin
ereedsanchez@compulsivetraveler.tv
Jillian

Thanks for the info.
I have another website you can add to the list: http://www.sutree.com
It has great video travel guides and more useful travel tips. I planned my Thai experience all with the help of this website!
Nick

Overlander.tv has an interesting concept, interviewing local people at various locations and asking them why they choose to live where they do
http://www.touringscotland.net/ Touring Scotland

I find the best method is to use google maps.
On the more button just click videos and it will show all videos related to the area.

Hoops1957

I just tred this and it didn’t work … I’m in the US not Scotland which maybe the reason but clicked the more button and videos was not an option?

http://www.visitmystreet.tv Chris

Have you seen http://www.visitmystreet.tv

It has a wide selection of video travel guides, some of individual cities and areas, others of resorts and regions and some of individual countries.

All the videos are stored in channels relating to their continent.

The really cool thing is that it is completely free for people to register and upload their own travel guide videos.

This means there is a real mix of content, ranging from professional produced stuff, to amateur holiday videos.

There’s quite a lot of advertising spread about the page, but the videos are quite big and they’ve syndicated quite a lot of content.
Ahmed

this one also is a collection of tons of travel guide videos http://www.travelandtourguidevideos.com
Ahmed

this one also is a collection of tons of travel guide videos http://www.travelandtourguidevideos.com

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