{"id":310,"date":"2017-10-07T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/?p=310"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T10:48:36","slug":"ready-to-loose-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/news\/ready-to-loose-bookings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to loose bookings? No? Read this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The times that people looking for a hotel are booking solely based on a handful of &#8220;flat&#8221; photos and some videos are long gone! This is not to preach to our own choir, so to speak. It is a fact and it is happening now! Search on the Internet and you&#8217;ll see what is happening in the world&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-322 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-2a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-2a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-2a-300x56.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some statistics on virtual tours in the travel industry, collected from various sources on the Internet:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-cook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-cook.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-cook-300x101.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Websites with virtual tours are viewed 5-10 times longer than those without virtual tours.<\/li>\n<li>A site with a 360\u00ba virtual tour and interactive media will receive 40% more views than a competitor\u2019s site that is lacking media\u00a0(Pew Internet Life Study).<\/li>\n<li>Hotels that have virtual tours on their website, generate 48% more bookings (research by Best Western)<\/li>\n<li>Rich media (interactive visuals, such as videos and\/or virtual tours) increase conversion rates by 64% (ICE Portal)<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Tours are used by more than 50% of all adult Internet users on a regular basis when performing Internet research. With strongly rising tendency. (\u201dClickz Stats\u201c Study 2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-3-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We collected some more headlines and snippets from various sites across the Internet, which you can find below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-1-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-5-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-7-300x33.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-8-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-9.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.insideview.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171007-9-300x42.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The times that people looking for a hotel are booking solely based on a handful of &#8220;flat&#8221; photos and some videos are long gone! 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