Travel Vlogger! Kaise Bane !. We all want to go beyond our comfort zones and places where we were born and brought up. Travel is something we look upto and seek places we can visit to experience the new places and understand various cultures. People travel in the same city or a different city, state, or even country.
The journey, the plan, and the process are exciting and a way to create memories with your loved ones and families.
Besides travel as a bucket list, we do look up for pre-experiences of people who have gone to that place, and how to plan a budgeted trip. So we do refer to Google for some blogs, like traveljuntion to explore and gain knowledge. You have also come across some Travel videos known as vlogs. So let’s see if you can be a travel vlogger, or what exactly it is all about?
A video shot from your phone, or if you’re a professional, or shot with different cool angles. Content includes travel experiences, with a personal touch. Visuals and pictures are quite attractive, and visuals will drag you right there to visit.
Its visual travel diary that inspires many viewers to put that place into their list of travel. They also share tips and promote tourism.
Who is a Travel Vlogger?
A travel vlogger is definitely a career you can choose to pursue. In the digital world, we all like watching Instagram and YouTube.
A travel vlogger does a lot of work behind the scenes, which needs proper research on the place you want to show, writing content that is reader-friendly, planning the trip itinerary, a few permissions to shoot, creating a script for your video, deciding how you will shoot it, and post-shoot video editing.
Being a Travel volgger sounds interesting and fun, with a lot of hard work and sacrificing your routine 9-5 job and daily life chores. Well, that’s a choice one can opt for in life, kyunke Zindagi na mile Dobara!
How do you make money being a Travel Vlogger?
Travel Vloggers make money, but after putting a lot of effort into creating a strong profile and content creation method. They earn with a combination of YouTube ad revenues, sponsorships with brands and tourism boards, and affiliate marketing commissions. They also sell merchandise, digital products, preset guides, and host group trips. They also build a loyal audience to monetise through several streams. Creators become successful with daily content consistency.
Several chains of airlines, hotels, tour operators, and travel gear brands promote the help of these travel vloggers to promote their services and pay the vlogger, too.
Sponsors pay for their travel costs, accommodation, or provide direct payment in exchange for promotion, content creation, or social media exposure.
Also, they target companies that sell cameras, luggage, apparel, and apps to get their content sponsored. Many platforms like Trovatrip help in booking trips.
How does a travel vlog look like !
You can be a travel vlogger as a beginner, too, but you can improve and get better with a proper structure in place. So your vlog should be 10-30 minutes, mind it, keep it engaging if you wish to let your audience be geared with your content. Take some good Ato B rolls for sure. Your visual story should have a mix of good cuts, shots, and selfies. Making it cinematic and superb.
With a good chronology, showing the particular destination or experience is good enough.Be good at your narrations and descriptions of culture, tradition, food, and adventures.
Also, try your hands on modern day vlogs like shots and Instagram reels, making it punchy and fun. Set the mood by using good sound effects and music that’s upbeat. Try getting your hands on gimbals, drones and cameras in your budget.
Giving a personal touch and experience with the local food, exploring hidden spots, and sharing tips is great. Also, your content should make them feel like travelling to the destination on their next vacation.
Let’s keep it simple and easy, add a hook at the start to make your video exciting, followed by a good introduction of the vlogger and location. Let it be story-driven or the journey to this place. You have your creative minds to decide on what you would like to portray. End your video with a good short or call to action. The conclusion should also be exciting.
Famous travel vloggers in India that one should take inspiration from.
Well, these famous vloggers are solo, independent, whereas some travel as couples and as groups. Some sell adventure alone and create totally offbeat content. While some have a special niche of their interest and cover content accordingly. All you can do is choose your niche and decide what you want to show on your vlogging channel.
From some good Independent vloggers, check out Shehnaz Treasury, an actress turned travel vlogger. Other names on your list to learn can be Nomadic Indian, Varun Vagish, Yatri doctor, Mantri Magic, Footloose dev, Gypsy couple, and Sid the wanderer.
