{"id":227,"date":"2017-05-10T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:47:37","slug":"online-travel-agencies-express-interest-in-branded-virtual-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/news\/online-travel-agencies-express-interest-in-branded-virtual-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Travel Agencies express interest in branded virtual tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The time that we could entice people to book a hotel by showing breathtaking still\u00a0photos are gone. Your website&#8217;s visitors\u00a0are constantly looking for more immersive content prior to booking their holiday destination. We&#8217;ve been shooting virtual tours of various hotels in the Gambia and <a href=\"\/portfolio\/gambia\/\">published those on Google Maps and Google Streetview<\/a>\u00a0recently in order to offer this high-in-demand\u00a0content.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tjingo.nl\/2017\/05\/06\/een-unieke-virtuele-ervaring-door-het-kombo-beach-hotel\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-228 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170510-tjingo-kombo-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual Tour of Kombo Beach Hotel (Gambia) on Tjingo\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170510-tjingo-kombo-beach.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170510-tjingo-kombo-beach-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170510-tjingo-kombo-beach-768x694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/20170510-tjingo-kombo-beach-1024x926.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And since a few months we can\u00a0create\u00a0branded virtual tours. These branded virtual tours contain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>quick links to areas of interest in the virtual tour (e.g. &#8220;Bar&#8221;, &#8220;Pool area&#8221;, &#8220;Lobby&#8221;, &#8220;Superior room&#8221; etc.)<\/li>\n<li>link to a page on the brand&#8217;s website (e.g. the page of a specific hotel or resort)<\/li>\n<li>the brand&#8217;s logo in the so-called &#8220;nadir&#8221; (the point under the camera, where the tripod was located)<\/li>\n<li>VR glasses support (&#8220;cardboard&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An OTA (Online Travel Agency) who saw the opportunity immediately is the Netherlands-based <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tjingo.nl\/2017\/05\/06\/een-unieke-virtuele-ervaring-door-het-kombo-beach-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tjingo<\/a>. They started with a branded virtual tour of one hotel: <a href=\"https:\/\/tourmkr.com\/t3WWzrz0Cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kombo Beach Hotel, in the Gambia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Branded Virtual Tour of Kombo Beach Hotel<\/h2>\n<p>The following branded virtual tour starts at the pool area. The menu in the upper left corner contains the various hot spots of the hotel (in Dutch), whereas the link in the lower right bottom leads directly to the page of the hotel listing on Tjingo&#8217;s website. And you&#8217;ll see the Tjingo logo at the floor right underneath you.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/tourmkr.com\/t3WWzrz0Cb?index=scene_53&#038;hlookat=16&#038;vlookat=22&#038;fov=140\" width=\"90%\" height=\"450px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time that we could entice people to book a hotel by showing breathtaking still\u00a0photos are gone. 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We&#8217;ve been shooting virtual tours of various hotels in the Gambia and published those on Google Maps and Google Streetview\u00a0recently in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[51,52,15,50,53],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/news\/online-travel-agencies-express-interest-in-branded-virtual-tours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Online Travel Agencies express interest in branded virtual tours - InsideView\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The time that we could entice people to book a hotel by showing breathtaking still\u00a0photos are gone. 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