The Destination Palestine Tourism Media Library offers a comprehensive collection of digital media assets related to Palestine and its touristic offer. The media library contains different formats of visual material including photos, design files, PDF documents, videos and raw formats.
The media content available is also highly structured, organizable and indexed for searching with the use of tagging, key words and collections.
Currently, the media content is available for browsing and downloading with water marks without a user account. Access to the original content is available free of charge by requesting an account.
After creating account, you can use content in the Media Library in one of the following methods:
- Browse and download your copy of the files for use in your tourism marketing projects
- Install the Media Library plugin on your wordpress site to easily access the content in your development environment
- Access the server through API connection as your develop your new app
- Contribute with your assets to the Media Library
Browse through the media library’s documentation and use cases to start using the media library today.
Destination Palestine Media Library (DPML) is a state-of-the-art digital content management system, operated by the Palestine Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities. It serves the entire tourism sector as well as creative entrepreneurs, travel writers, app developers and others involved in Palestinian tourism by providing fully tagged and searchable high quality, royalty-free tourism media and marketing material.
The featured material can be used for any business purposes, by anyone seeking to positively market Destination Palestine and determined to promote its beauty and cultural heritage to travellers from around the world.
Destination Palestine Media Library is operated as a service to the entire Palestinian tourism sector and anyone working in/with Palestinian tourism. Its main purpose is to supply businesses, entrepreneurs, and creative talents with high quality content for any professional business use related to marketing and promoting Palestinian tourism.
In general, you may download and use the content in the DPML for any purpose and in any form as long as you seek to positively market and promote Destination Palestine. Opening an account and using the content is free of charge and a for-profit use of the content is explicitly allowed.
You might, however, be asked to reference the creator of the material. The usage rights are contained in each file.
The workflow differs for Tourism Associations, Private Businesses, General Marketers or Contributors. But generally, a considerable amount of content is available for view publicly, and free of charge for registered users.
The library is all about professional digital destination-related media. Currently, DPML mainly offers high resolution imagery showcasing Destination Palestine’s rich cultural, historical, spiritual, and natural beauty and heritage. At launch, its initial collections include more than 1500 high quality images and other digital content on Palestine.
New content is being added continuously making DPML already the largest and most comprehensive storage and distribution platform for tourism media in Palestine.
While creators will retain all copyrights and can assign specific usage restrictions, the upload function enables businesses to easily distribute their marketing material to a wide and professional audience at no cost. For example, your high-quality food or hotel images might be used in international travel exhibitions, tourism publications, or by travel journalists to illustrate their articles or blog posts. Of course, you can request that your business is referenced and linked to.
For professional tourism photographers and videographers, DPML is the perfect tool to showcase their work. In the upload process, you can set certain usage limits for each of your pictures or video footage. Since DPML is a free-to-use platform with non-payable content, you may not charge for uploaded material, but you arevery welcome to market yourself for your professional photography or video filming services.
Destination Palestine Media Library is a cornerstone in Destination Palestine’s new and forthcoming digital tourism ecosystem. Built on a state-of-the-art content management system with powerful search engine, AI-driven tagging and keywording, the DPML is much more than just a digital storage for pictures, videos, and marketing material.
With Open Data philosophy in mind, DPML was developed to provide an open API architecture to foster integration with existing and future 3rd party tourism systems and databases. For this reason, DPML comes with a complete and comprehensive API documentation that allows any developer, tourism entrepreneur or service provider to develop their tourism product and services based on the existing data through system integration.
