Hotels
Consider this...
You are looking for a hotel to take your partner to for the weekend as a birthday treat. You go online and look at several hotels in the area you wish to visit. Most have a few nice photographs, however, one has a virtual tour that allows you to interactively wander around and view the reception area, the lobby, the restaurant/s and bar/s, the spa, a selection of rooms - including their bathrooms and views, and the grounds. It all looks fabulous. All other things being equal, which one would you choose...?
Customers are risk-averse...
and they what to know what they are getting before parting with their hard-earned cash. They want to know the quality of the bedrooms,
the bathrooms, the restaurant, lounge, and bar, etc. Their worst case scenario is to turn up at a hotel they pre-booked only to be completely disappointed with it. If time was object they would visit each short-listed hotel and then make a decision which one to stay in. A virtual tour enables them to do just this any time, day or night, without having to step outside their own house. And hotels without virtual tours? They don't get on the shortlist...
An interactive 360˚ panorama or virtual tour motivates potential customers to dynamically explore your hotel on-line. Compelling virtual tours are proven to increase customer interest and those all-important bookings.
Show your confidence
Maybe your hotel isn't all that great. Maybe it is a bit "tired", dim, with poor views and poor facilities. Then the last thing you should to do is to have a virtual tour made of it!
Quite simply, a hotel that is prepared to put on display a virtual tour for the whole world to see, must be supremely confident that they have the right formula and that they have nothing to hide. This, in and of itself, will give confidence to potential customers...
Return on investment
The number and size of virtual tours that best promotes a hotel depends on its' size and range of facilities, and so costs vary widely. However, as a rough guide, we estimate the cost of a virtual tour to be between 7 - 14 room-days of a mid-priced room.
What this means is that the virtual tour has only to attract 10 - 18 room-day bookings (we have added 30% to cover customer servicing costs) - that you otherwise would not have made - and you have fully recovered your investment. We confidently predict that if you have a very nice hotel and competitors in your area do not have virtual tours, then you will get a return on your investment in the thousands of percent, year on year...
Conversely, if you are one of the hotels in your area that do not have a virtual tour - and competitors do - then we predict that you will see a progressive drop in bookings...
We also predict that soon - within ten years - that virtual tours will become the norm and that it will be nearly impossible to run a hotel successfully without one or more virtual tours...
Communicate the ambiance & facilities of your hotel
- High resolution 360˚ panoramas or virtual tours can create captivating views of your hotel, offering seamless 360˚ interior and exterior views, to entice so potential on-line customers.
- By integrating 360˚ views of different types of accommodation, restaurants, banqueting halls, sitting rooms, gardens, swimming pools, spas - your website can deliver a more unified and enticing sense of what your hotel has to offer in this highly competitive market.
- Our advanced virtual tours are custom-designed and can integrate maps and/or floor plans to ensure user-friendly navigation.
- A series of virtual tours could target more effectively different markets such as individual customers, weddings, tourism, spa and sports facilities, companies, and corporate facilities and events.
- Our high definition imagery is optimized for fast loading and accords customers with the control and freedom to explore at their own pace.
- We can enhance the ambiance of panoramas with the accompaniment of your selection of audio or soundtrack/s and video.
Enhance your brand & website appeal and usability
- Our range of customisations of virtual tours available such as framing, fonts, buttons, graphics and logos etc, allows our imagery to seamlessly align to your brand identity and ethos.
- Potential customers appreciate feeling fully informed, and integrating our 360˚panoramas will enhance online levels of customer service, portray a superb level of attention to detail, respect for your clients and engagement with new technology.
- Our virtual tours will allow customers to engage with your brand through offering them a high resolution, bespoke, interactive sense of the experience they will enjoy when staying with you
Most virtual tour photography companies are a single photographer with some web experience. What separates 3‑8‑tive 360˚ from all other virtual reality photography and design companies is that we are part of a much bigger innovative and creative computer company that specialises in web hosting, web design and development, digital asset management systems (DAMS), and content management systems (CMS). This extremely powerful combination offers you unrivaled creative and technical opportunities to keep you ahead of the competition, use highly innovative customer-engaging technology, and protects your original investment.
3‑8‑tivity has huge web computing resources - using the most advanced cloud technologies, and unrivaled experience in digital imaging and multi-media, and their eCommerce integration.
What this means for you is that with 3‑8‑tive 360˚ you are buying into maximum flexibility and capability, and your investment is future-proof. Whatever your current or future requirements are, we are confident that no other company is better placed technically, photographically, or creatively to meet your needs.
You may start with a simple virtual tour, however, later you may want to progress to something more advanced like eCommerce, reporting, and/or dynamic content. The key advantage of using 3‑8‑tive 360˚ is that if you later decide to add advanced functionality it is very likely that you will be able to use the original virtual tour photography - i.e. it is unlikely that you will have to have the virtual tour re-shot. This is because most of the additional functionality is handled at the back-end - on the web server and in on-line databases - with small user-interface changes that can be over-laid on top of your existing virtual tour. Obviously this saves you money and protects your original investment. You can have the confidence that we will be able to meet any of your future requirements.
There are opportunities that you may not have considered, and we can explore these with you to keep you ahead of the competition and to keep your customers engaged and loyal.
Put another way, if you never want to used advanced features like :-
- integrate eCommerce functionality - like on-line bookings, sales, multi-media information
- integrate with your existing computer systems - e.g. booking or sales systems
- instantly change dynamic content in the virtual tour/s yourself - like changing menus, prices, times
- report on visits, clicks with detailed analysis
- create permanent on-line digital archives of exhibitions, shows, seasons, development progress, etc.
... and if you do not need any of the following :-
- technical assistance with integrating your virtual tour into any web site, blog, or content management system (CMS)
- re-evaluate your whole web strategy to maximise interactive virtual tour content and opportunities
- assistance with search engine optimisation (SEO)
... if you do not need any of the above then there is no particular reason why you should choose 3‑8‑tive 360˚ . There are several perfectly good virtual reality photographers in your area and some produce photographic results as good as us, offer a service as good as we do, and turn around your work as quickly as we do...
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