TOP 5 Tourism website Videos
From the ten tourism website videos I had reviewed the following are my top five choices:
- Utah
- California
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- US Virgin Islands
TOP Selection
My top choice for best tourism website video is Utah (ww.Utah.com). What I liked about this website and their videos is each week Utah.com has a “Weekly Video Premier”. The weekly video shows something special or unique that has happened recently in Utah on the homepage banner. This week (11/29/2009) the website had a video of the First Snow in Park City, these videos create a more personal aspect to the viewer and the state almost linking the tourist to the locals and having something special to share. It also introduces possible tourist activities in the city when it snows, such as sledding and skiing and also enjoying the beautiful view of fresh snow.
Also each topic tab on the homepage has it’s own introductory video for the states topic tourism locations and activities such as skiing, national parks, river rafting, golf courses, destinations and also temple square.
However these videos are not the only aspect of why I chose Utah.com as the best tourism website for videos, under the website’s “top spots” tab on the homepage the website has a slideshow of different top things to do in Utah, instead of a simple worded description of the locations or the activities the website provides short videos that promote the top spots in the state. Not all of the videos in this tab are high quality but what lacks in quality the videos provide visual stimulation versus reading a standard description and also provides areas for future improvement for the website.
Overall I believe these videos on the Utah website will improve visitor spending because it touches on the many different services and products the state has to offer. This websites video’s compared the others provides a sense of a personal touch due to the weekly video the state posts each week for all to view.
List of Tourism Website Videos
- US Virgin Islands
http://www.usvitourism.vi/multimedia_island_journal
- Hawaii
http://www.gohawaii.com/stories/stories.html?video=18&cid=2009r3stories_home01a
- Philadelphia
http://www.gophila.com/Go/PhotosMultimedia/videoaudio.aspx
- Utah
Homepage banner, homepage tabs and “top spots” link
- South Dakota
http://www.travelsd.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthDakotaTourism
- Canada
http://www.visitcanada.com/educational-tours/slideshow.html
- New Mexico
http://www.newmexico.org/video/
- Florida
- Louisiana
http://www.louisianatravel.com/history
- California
http://www.visitcalifornia.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&ContentID=21166
Utah was a great pick. It is great that they try and use these videos create a more personal aspect to future tourists. Park City is an awsome place if your into snowboarding/skiing and to see it start snowing everyone starts gearing up to hit the slopes. Great job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Utah. They have so many beautiful sites that can not be explained with just words and really need to have videos and pictures to boast their beauty.
ReplyDeleteI like your number one choice of the videos you viewed. I think its really cool that they put up a new video every week that shows a recent event that took place. That's especially good for a potential visitor because they can get a sneak peak of the event and plan a trip to attend it next year or whenever the event takes place again.
ReplyDeleteGreat Blog! I think you have found an awesome site/video! The fact that it is updated weekly is wonderful for the potential tourists and shows that the destination care about being well viewed and promoted.
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