Video and heritage travel in Australia
Posted: March 13, 2013 Contents: Chapter 3, Chapter 6 | Tags: australia, australian art, australian street art, culture, foreign culture, local culture, lonely planet, lonelyplanet.com, melbourne street art, street art, travel journalism, travel journalist, travel technology, travel video Leave a comment »Chapter 6 explains the intersection between two growing trends. The first discusses travelers who book their trips online while the other is the audience for travel video. Chapter 3 then breaks down topic niches’ for travel journalism stories including the heritage niche’. Lonely Planet posted a video that intersects the growing online travel video trend with the heritage niche’ topic. Their video titled “Melbourne’s artistic underbelly” features a part of Australia’s culture that is often over looked because of it’s lack of mainstream luster: its street art.
The video depicts a growing niche’ topic for travel journalists to explore. The street artists in Melbourne are now taking it upon themselves, much like the advice in the text, to lead groups of tourists as tour guides of Australia’s most overlooked artistic gems. The relatively short video encourages visitors to engage with and participate in these street art tours. The tour guides highlight the fact…
