Tourism Cams: Questions & Answers

Tourism Cams is a service from Real View. We supply your tourist board, destination or attraction with a weatherproof camera, point it at your view, and run it for you. The live view then appears in three places: an ad-free window embedded on your own website, a permanent live stream on YouTube, and the Real View TV app, which people watch on their televisions. The same camera also produces daily highlight clips, timelapses and drafted social media posts.

Tourist boards, destination marketing organisations, BIDs, town and city councils, and visitor attractions — anyone whose job is to make people want to come. If your destination has a view worth showing — a seafront, a market square, a landmark, an attraction — a live camera turns it into marketing that runs itself.

Yes — that's exactly how many boards use it. The seafront, the high street, the castle and the harbour can each have their own camera, all under one account and appearing together in one control panel. Each camera is simply the same price per month, so add as many as you like.

Because a living destination sells itself, and a still photograph doesn't prove it. A live shot of the real weather, the real light and the real place, on the page where someone is deciding whether to visit, does the job a gallery of stock images cannot. And once the camera is up, it keeps producing marketing content on its own — clips, timelapses, social posts — without anyone on your team lifting a finger.

No. The camera is supplied as part of your monthly plan. Real View owns it and manages it remotely, so there's no hardware to buy, no capital outlay, and nothing to maintain or replace. If you ever stop, the camera comes back to us — there's nothing for you to write off.

Most customers install it themselves, and it's genuinely straightforward. The camera arrives already configured. Mount it, connect a single network cable that carries both power and internet, and it finds itself and starts streaming automatically. There's no recorder, no encoder and nothing to configure. If the mounting is awkward or high up, managed installation is available from £299 (up to £750 depending on complexity).

A stable connection with roughly 2 Mbps of upload capacity to spare, and one network cable that reaches the mounting point. That single cable carries power as well as data, so the camera doesn't need a socket beside it. Most business and fibre connections have this available without noticing.

Yes, and many destinations do — the seafront, the square, the castle, the harbour. Each camera is priced the same way, per camera per month, and they all appear together in the same control panel.

We monitor it and bring it back. The camera reconnects on its own after a power cut or a broadband drop, and if something is genuinely wrong we can see it remotely and deal with it. It's our hardware, so keeping it running is our job, not yours.

Yes — it's a live view, so it shows whatever is really there, including the night. A lit harbour, a floodlit castle or a city skyline after dark is often the better picture. Where a view genuinely has nothing to show in the dark, the camera can be set to follow daylight rather than stream a black screen.

Yes — it's one of the main reasons to have it. You get an ad-free, branded embed of your live view to drop straight onto your own pages. Importantly it's our player, not a YouTube embed: a YouTube embed can open with an advert, possibly a rival destination's, which is no way to run your own marketing.

Yes — and you choose where. We can push your live view to your own YouTube channel, running 24 hours a day, or carry it on the Real View channel if you'd rather we hosted it. Either way it's a permanent live stream that keeps you discoverable, with nothing for you to manage.

Real View is a free television app on Samsung, LG, Fire TV and Android TV that turns a screen into a window onto a real, live place. People leave it on for hours — in living rooms, offices, cafes and waiting rooms. Your destination appears by name alongside your view. That's a kind of sustained attention you can't buy with advertising.

No. Viewing is unlimited. However many people watch your camera — on the TV app, on YouTube, or on your own website — the price doesn't change and nothing is throttled or switched off. Being watched is the entire point of the product, so we don't ration it.

Each day the camera automatically produces short clips of your best moments — typically sunrise and sunset — and puts them in your panel ready to use. You didn't have to film them, edit them, or remember to be there. They're simply produced from your own view while you were doing something else.

The camera keeps regular stills, and you can build a timelapse over any range you choose — a day, a week, a season. An afternoon of weather rolling across the bay, compressed into thirty seconds, is exactly the kind of thing that travels on social media.

On the Premium plan, the system looks at what actually happened on your camera that day and drafts ready-to-post content for TikTok, Instagram and Shorts — the clip, and a caption written from the real scene rather than a generic template. The AI drafts; your team decides. You review, edit and approve everything before anything goes out.

Plans are per camera, per month:

Basic — £99. The live camera plus an ad-free branded embed on your own website.
Professional — £149. Adds streaming to the Real View TV app and YouTube, daily highlight clips and timelapses.
Premium — £199. Adds AI-drafted captions and social post generation.

The camera is included in every plan. Optional managed installation is a one-off £299–£750 depending on complexity.

No. The camera, the hosting, the delivery and the software are all part of the monthly plan. The only optional extra is managed installation, if you'd rather we mounted it than do it yourself.

The plan is monthly, and the camera belongs to Real View — so stopping simply means we arrange its return. There's no hardware you're left holding and nothing to write off.

The camera has no microphone at all, so no audio is ever captured. It's designed to be pointed at your view rather than at people — aim it at the skyline, the coast or the landmark and there's nothing to think twice about. Where a camera would overlook a public area in which people are identifiable, treat it like any other public-realm camera and signpost it as you normally would.

It's your view and your content. Real View carries it, delivers it, and produces the clips and timelapses from it. We don't sell your footage on, and if you leave, we stop carrying it.

Tourism Cams is a service from Real View, a British company, and the cameras are designed and assembled in Great Britain.