I always nurtured this big dream of becoming a globetrotter. I wanted to travel to all those small lesser known cities and places which definitely does not acquire the top of the travel destination list of normal tourists. I have had this plan to make small documentaries on those places and come up with an exhibition. I am pretty sure that whoever has gone through my other blog "Globetrotter - Journey of a Lone Traveler" already knows this.
The other day, while coming back from college i was day dreaming about all these sweet but expensive hobby. And bam, it hit my head instantly! I can use those documentaries to earn money to cover up my next tour expenses. If I can offer to sell the documentary to that particular country or place's authorities and they really like it, then it could be both way a win win condition. For the authorities it would be an authentic and realistic document to showcase their country and for me I will get my airfare or other travel expenses covered up. The documentaries will showcase the particular countries real assets and beauties beholden from a genuine travelers eyes. The photos or the subjects or the people in the pictures will not be artificial and posed. They will be as real as myself!
So, now content with the new idea I waited till I reached home. Then a unwelcome thought swept my mind - what if someone has already got this excellent idea before me and already have started working on it! Naive gullible me!
I did not dwell on that unpleasant thought for long and typed "Country Branding" in the Google. And my worst thought came true, when the Google Search Engine produced hundreds of pages in front of me.
With all dread in my mind I saw there are thousands of links and web contents on the same topic. At the top of the list is a page in Wikipedia called Place Branding! Pensively I opened the link and check on the data and information provided there. The more I read the more intrigued I became. Whoa! It is really a whole lot of research gone into this concept and so many people has done so many in depth work in this. It took the whole evening and the day next to roughly go through the first few links and webpages on that.
Piqued by the interesting topic I made a small informative presentation on Place Branding and presented to my classmates. Some of them really liked and I was able to make a few of them more inquisitive about the concept. That's indeed a big gain, for all those hours of info gathering. I was happy.
And then one day suddenly this completely different idea clicked in my mind. In my next post I will be sharing my idea with you.
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