Before you book that ticket - check out the videos

When making travel plans to a new destination, I always talk to my friends who have been there before, read the travel guides and also surf the web for feedback from those who have made that journey.
But I always thought that a good video preview would really help before I book that non-refundable ticket. Therefore I was pleased to learn about couple of websites that aims do just that.
Travelistic which launched recently, will be a site dedicated to travel videos. The website has a simple but pertinent slogan - "videos for travelers". Accordingly there will be professional travel videos as well as user generated clips. The layout of the video portion of the website is similar to many of the video-sharing websites.
Turnhere is another website that is built around a similar theme. Turnhere hosts professionally produced short videos about cities and neighbourhoods from all over the world. It touts to be the venue for local videos that would serve both local people and tourists.
Wander on to these websites to explore the world, whether you do it from your home or in person.