Marriott Hotels and art and technology company VSCO have announced a collaboration designed to inspire people to travel. Together the companies are launching a set of curated travel guides for five iconic cities around the world that combine stunning imagery with in-the-know recommendations. The guides pair local VSCO photographers with expert travel writers to give visitors a highly visual and insightful guide to the culture, experiences and unknown secrets of each city.
The exclusive city guides feature Berlin, Taipei, Paris, Cairo, and Portland and showcase vivid destination shots while detailing the best cultural landmarks, locals’ favorite restaurants, shops, bars, clubs, as well as the city’s Marriott Hotels property. In addition to the destination guides, the Marriott and VSCO are introducing a handpicked collection of travel photos from the VSCO community, selected by Marriott Hotels. The guides and images are hosted exclusively on Marriott Hotels’ VSCO profile at TravelBrilliantly.vsco.co.
“These guides offer visual inspiration from talented VSCO photographers, connecting and sparking conversation from travelers around the world,” said Matthew Carroll, vice president, Marriott Hotels. “We’re excited to provide recommendations from this in-the-know community that you wouldn’t get anywhere else.”
In addition to living on TravelBrilliantly.vsco.co, each of the city guides will be printed into 500 soft-cover books by Artifact Uprising, a VSCO-owned company that creates tangible photo books, prints, and gifts for digital photos.
The travel guides were created by members of the VSCO community, a collective of artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, including photographers Lisa Marie, Robbie Lawrence, Sean Marc-Lee, Nour El-Refai, and Joe Greer, as well as travel writers Terence Teh, Rich Conway, Stephanie Hsu, Yasha Wallin, and Sydney Kim.
