A New Photography Customer: Tapping into the Visitor Market

Travelers to vacation destinations around the U.S. spend from $967 million to $97.6 Billion annually per state.

Photographers:

How many visitors come to your state annually? Look on our start a photography business page to find out how many visitors your state generates or the annual spending by visitors in your state. This information will help you understand the potential upside for a Destination Photography Business in your area. 

Tourists have money to spend on transportation, lodging, food and activities while on vacation. In a Destination Photography business model, your job is to show vacationers the importance of a photography session in their activity budget. Make your photography session a vacation activity they will remember for a lifetime. 

Here is an example of my point:

Grand Canyon horse back rides cost $85.50 per person for two hours http://www.grandcanyoninformation.com/twohour.html. The cost for a family of five is $427.50. Don’t you think it would be just as wonderful to capture your trip to the Grand Canyon in photos? Once potential customers realize they have a choice to get portraits in their vacation destination the light bulb goes on! They begin thinking of a canvas above the mantle and a great photo for Christmas cards. A photo session in their vacation destination immortalizes their family trip helping them to remember some of the most wonderful times with their loved ones in photos, screen savers and Facebook profiles. Why not charge the same price as the Grand Canyon horse back riding tours for a family of five of, $427.50 as a starting package price? 

To help you understand how much people love their Destination Photography photos here are two of my customer testimonials from my destination photography business on Maui.

• We had such a wonderful experience having our family pictures taken by Karma. She was great with our family, came up with very creative poses, and recommended a beautiful setting. However, the experience was nothing compared to the emotions we experienced when we received the actual proofs. It took us right back to that moment, the pictures of our family (especially the kids) were so beautiful my eyes welled up with tears. We will cherish these family pictures forever. We are already planning on having Karma take our daughter's graduation pictures, which is four years from now!!!!  

Franich Family, Washington

• Karma - Thank you so much for taking such great pictures of our Maui Family Vacation.  We are really pleased with the way the pictures turned out and are glad we will have these to relive the memories.  This was our 5 year old daughter's first time to Maui - I know she will love looking back on these pictures.  I would highly recommend you to anyone visiting Maui who wants to have memorable photos that last a lifetime. 

Thanks Again! The Torr Family, Colorado

During a vacation tourists feel they have the extra time to get family, couples, or engagement pictures taken and the amazing backdrop that you provide creates the venue.  

Our Destination Photography Business model focuses on giving you the know how to tap into the tourism niche next to you. Our book is a guide to help you reach, target and book these tourists for photography sessions. Let us help provide you direction from our years of Destination Photography experience.

The knowledge in our book can help you:

$29 for this E-book is a small price to pay for being able to see how to target a nearly untapped market of customer and get them booked in. Even if you decide not to target Destination Photography customers in your area, the ability to take a look at the inner workings of a completely different type of photography business model and see how we generate and book customers from the inside out is worth the price of $29.

Read our book and let it excite and inspire you with new ideas and ways to translate some of the concepts and photography business functionalities from our book into your business model. Use our information to increase profits, increase free time, decrease workload and increase fun! 

Here is what one of our recent customers had to say: 

 “Be one of the first in your area to use this new business model to generate & book photography customers.”

Need some additional inspiration for locations to start a Destination Photography Business?

Here are some amazing areas.

Also read one of my favorite articles about Targeting Tourists as a Customer Base and learn the magic formula for a Destination Photography Business: Time + Money = Bookings.