Lonely Planet TV is offering $500 for your best travel video. You upload your travel video and if anything catches the Lonely Planet teams eye they’ll contact the maker to offer the maker a $500 deal to license their travel video for use by Lonely Planet and their partners. It’s hard to gauge what type of travel video is likely to be selected for licensing. Lonely Planet claim that some of the best video footage is spontaneous but I don’t know if they’ll be impressed by you and your mates partying round a pool in some exotic location.

It’s a cheap way for Lonely Planet TV to increase the number of travel videos on their channel and it doesn’t sound like they guarantee licensing any travel videos. Still if you have some interesting travel videos it’s worth a try as if your video is chosen it’ll certainly be seen by a large audience.

I haven’t really got into the habit of taking travel videos even although I have a lovely little Flip video camera which I carry around all the time in my handbag. I shake too much when I taking footage and it’s more of fiddle downloading the videos to the computer than downloading photos from my digital camera.

Will you be uploading your travel videos to Lonely Planet?