What did I know about Iceland? not too much… only that it was a cold place in the north Atlantic, between England and Greenland, that they had a volcano that caused some headaches to Europe last year, that Bjork was originally from Iceland and that the economy was not doing well lately.

However, the video didn´t mention anything of above, and it shows how well Iceland has narrowed they target market and how is trying to improve their tourist incomes. Inspired by Iceland, check it out.

They know the people that they want visiting their land.

If you are in Los Angeles, and interested to buy some tickets please contact Adventure 16.

Colombia, The Only Risk is Wanting to Stay, is a great video with a similar theme. It contains highlighting destinations, amazing scenic views and a welcoming voice in Spanish and English. I can see how Colombia is becoming an exotic destination, generating new incomes and jobs for Colombians and great experiences for the people who decide to visit it.

Browsing videos for this post I found a behind the scenes of 100 % Pure New Zealand, which super worth a look.

I look forward to see a great video highlighting Iguazu, Salta, Mendoza, Patagonia and Buenos Aires, with amazing scenic views and a welcoming voice saying what Argentina has of special.

Thanks Fantasma for the video below! We still need to create the story around

This week three maps and one video specially called my attention:

First of all, it´s a project where 10M Facebook users were connected in between. According to Paul Butler, who started the project, visualizing data is like photography. I think Facebook should provide these data, which is different to Facebook places, because it could be handily be able to map your Facebook friends.

Secondly it was a project started in Norway to track and monitor any vessels from space, NASA and the European Space Agency have joined the project, and now it´s possible monitor live more than 60.000 ships.

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block was a widget created by New Your Times with information about ethnics, income, housing and families and education. If you are in the states and you don´t know who is around I invite you to take a look, just select the map enter any zip code and start analyzing, you will be amazed how diversified and sometimes segregate it is.

Last but not least, it´s the most ñoño of all. A group of Japanese kids went skydiving with google maps. They surrounded a room with blue plastic to simulate the sky, then sprayed it with white spray paint to simulate clouds and finally they used a projector to project a Google Earth sky-view upon the ground.

My little note for this post is that some phone apps, such as Navigate for Android or TomTom for IPhone were killing the GPS industry. So Garmin, one of the biggest GPS companies, decided to create a cellphone, called Nuvifone, to compete against Android and IPhone.