Without a Travel Agent You’re on Your Own Video Contest Guidelines

Without a Travel Agent You’re on Your Own

Video Contest Guidelines

Travel Market Report, the voice of the travel professional, is partnering with ASTA and ACTA to conduct a video contest for Canadian travel professionals to promote the value of using a travel agent.

Entries are due by March 21, 2016. There will be a winner and a runner up. All entries should be emailed to Louis Intreglia, lintreglia@travelmarketreport.com.

Creative Guidelines

Submissions can be serious or humorous, but should be thoughtful, creative and original while conforming to a two minute maximum time limit. For example, use icons, interview consumers, add a mascot image to your video or sing a song. Use your mobile device to record your video and upload it to YouTube, Vimeo or any other video sharing site. Send us the link to your video and you’re all set!

Rules and Guidelines

All entries should begin with a full-screen “title screen” that includes the title of the video and name of agency/agent.

The following rules apply:

• Entrants grant Travel Market Report (TMR) the right to use their names, photographs, statements, quotes, testimonials, and video submissions for advertising, publicity, and promotional purposes without notification or further compensation.
• Entrants grant TMR the right to use, reproduce, reprint, distribute, perform, and/or display the entrant’s project video without compensation or notification to the entrant.
• TMR maintains the right to reproduce, reprint, distribute, perform, display, or exhibit the project for advertising, publicity, and promotional purposes on their website, at conferences, or at any other venues.
• Entries will be judged on creativity, technical merit, adherence to contest requirements, and on how well they manage to convey the theme of the topic. These are clearly subjective categories and will be treated as such. The final awards will be selected based solely on the judges’ consensus.
• The videos will be judged by the management team and staff at TMR, ASTA and ACTA

Video specs for Travel Market Report

• Formats; MP4, mov or wmv.
• Resolution: 720×480 or 1280×720 or 1920×1080.
• Codecs: No divx codec.
• Editing software: Cannot be output from imovie – that is proprietary to MAC.
• Horizontal only
• Deliverables: Prefer the digital file as opposed to having to rip it from DVD or some video sharing site. Can be uploaded to ftp site or sent on a thumb drive or disk (as data files). Can also use a file transfer service like wetransfer.com.