Reuters is reporting that YouTube users can now peg videos set in specific locations to maps in Google Earth. So, if you go to a golf course and scroll over the links, a video overlay would pop up containing information about the course, scenic fly-bys, guided course management strategies, golf tips, you name it. The feature could be a real boon for tourism, enabling would-be travelers to surf the digital globe for information about potential vacation spots. Head to Niagara Falls and you might find helicopter tours, Maid of the Mist or information about local natural phenomena as well as a virtual tour of the hotel closest to the falls. Producers of Video content will enable the feature by adding geo-tags to their YouTube videos as they are uploaded;
As I have mentioned numerous times on this blog…. we’re facing a content crisis in tourism. We need to create content all the time! Just one more example of why video producers are the current must have staff in your tourism department.
Todd Lucier – TourismClicks.com
