YouTube started as a social media tool but is now evolving into a marketing communications tool. The aim of this paper is to investigate the use of YouTube as a tourism-marketing tool from the viewpoint of tourism organizations and tourists. This paper explores travel video blogging or vlogging as a manifestation of the perceived destination image. By looking into the influences of three fundamental components of modern travel vlogs - which are the information, the profile of vlogger and the video content – this study is able to understand how they influence destination image in the context of e-WOM. In line with the prior study of Wang (2012), characteristics of information such as usefulness and reliability were found to be a strong influencer to the formulation of the destination image. The results also found that the vlogger’s uniqueness also has a positive effect on viewer’s perception of the destination. Regarding the role of video effects in conveying destination image to viewers, sounds and music as in auditory effect were evidently positive to perceived destination image while visual effects were found to have the opposite direction. The findings of this study provide several important implications for travel vlogs research and practice.