This week we received an invitation to speak at the Online Marketing in Travel 2008 in Chicago. If you are in the travel industry you should check out the schedule and the attendees.

The topics that we (Tripr.tv) will cover:

 How can travel companies monetize user-generated videos? 

1. Podcasting news reported that in the USA the average person watches more than 2 videos online per day.  How big will online videos get?
2. Understand the benefits of using video content to convey the distinctive and attractive features of your property to online customers.
3. Encourage customers to create and share relevant rich-media content by setting up an online community.

This morning a TV segment about Tripr.tv has been broadcasted nationally.

Last few weeks where pretty exciting… We had great feedback from all over the world and last week we had a few very good meetings in Los Angeles. (More about that later

Never been in LA before but turned out I really liked it. Well, I must admit I like most US cities. My foreign ‘hometown’ is still Miami but San Francisco and now LA are great California spots.

I might come more often to the USA since we have a new VP USA in our company. We started as a Dutch company but now we are really focusing on the USA. Actually we are considering to have our HQ over there. It’s not all finalized yet but it sure looks that way.

We had an incredible amount of feedback from all over the world. Filmmakers from the US via UK to Asia all contacted us and are looking forward to shoot some good hotel video reviews. We like that, we like content – the more the better! So, if you think you can bring us some content and you can shoot some hotels… don’t hesitate and upload your videos. The more hotels you shoot the more travelers you can help choosing the right hotels (and the more you can earn