tvtrip.com is a website where you can see videos of hotels to help you make a decision on which hotel to book. Tvtrip aims to give you a honest, objective insight and video footage is certainly more revealing than static photos. There is reassurance that the images are not altered in any way. The website is independent and does not make hotel bookings for you, you click on a “check price” search button and a best price search is done through hotel booking partners such as Venere, Laterooms and Bookings.com. The videos are shot by professionals and the footage seems to offer a pretty comprehensive panorama of the public areas of the hotel and the bedrooms.

I looked at the videos for a few hotels and the footage loaded very quickly and was of good quality. At present 13 cities in Europe are featured on tvtrip but I assume the number will increase as the website grows. I noticed that there was only one hotel featured in my native country of Scotland. The website talks about maximum transparency and I believe that to conform to this tvtrip should clearly state how the do make money i.e. do they charge hotels to be featured or rely on commission from hotel partners? Also who decides which hotel rooms will be featured in the videos? I know that hotels may have some more recently refurbished rooms that they would prefer to be showcased.

I think that the website a really good idea, as video footage gives you an opportunity to carry out a more objective evaluation of hotels. I think that the more information that you have before decide which hotel to book, the better. If tvtrip can build up a reputation of providing reliable, unbiased hotel videos, then it should be a hit with hotel bookers.

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