Photo-realistic CGI imagery has been a game-changer for our customers and has brought Visiting Media’s product offerings to the next level. Meet the artist behind our CGI division, Antonio Arocho. As the head of the department and having launched a host of groundbreaking technologies, we sat down to get to know Antonio: what inspires him, his expertise and accomplishments which our customers are thrilled to take advantage of.
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Level up your customer journey and elevate your branding with Aerial CGI Models and Videos! Say goodbye to low-resolution, made-from-scratch solutions with a bespoke, easy-to-use aerial model or video that will wow your guests and planners.
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Get access to TrueTour for 20-30% less than the traditional package. Introducing the TrueTour™ Lite App and content package for groups of 10+ smaller hotels — perfect for Limited and Select Service properties that need a simple solution to deliver a great digital experience to their customer anywhere on the web.
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Tim Hammer comes to Visiting Media as a longtime TrueTour™ customer from Kimpton Hotels and Resorts. We’ve asked Tim a few questions to get to know him better and learn why he is excited to lead the Visiting Media sales team and help properties sell their spaces and increase revenue in the new normal.
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The commercial photography and video industry is ripe for disruption, and we’re inspired to shake up the current model! We’ve solved many of the pain points we hear from our customers with the launch of Visiting Media’s Traditional Content Division. Once you experience this new production method, your traditional content options will feel limitless.
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Today we’re introducing Laura Thornton, our Senior Support Coach in charge of supporting our corporate and group accounts with their TrueTour portfolio launch.
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First Hospitality selects Visiting Media, the global leader in 360°/3D selling enablement technology for the hospitality industry, as their preferred provider across their portfolio. As part of their pandemic response and recovery plan, virtual site inspections are key to increasing revenue and maintaining safe operations through 2021 and beyond.
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Integrating your CRM, DAM, RFP/RFI platform, marketing automation software and other third-party channels is becoming real with TrueTour™ X.
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Along with the demand for touchless customer service came the resurgence of QR codes around the country — and around the globe. From restaurant tables hosting a QR-based dinner menu to doctor’s office counters providing touchless check-ins, the QR code — or quick reference code — has officially made its comeback. Where once a menu, brochure, touchscreen or pen and paper stood, now a QR code delivers access to a digitally optimized interaction. TrueTour empowers everyone in your organization to use QR codes in person and at a distance — with more than just your immersive media.
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Combining the efficiency of a digital asset management tool with the effectiveness of virtual sales enablement brings us to the next evolution in virtual selling. In this post we share some cold, hard facts about the future of hospitality selling in this accelerated reopening phase.
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Looking for a way to increase your selling impact and improve ROI on your immersive investment? The data-driven results are undeniable. When using TrueTour visuals early and often during the RFP process, the closing rates and the return on our customer’s TrueTour investment increases substantially.
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In today’s world, marketing efficiency is not only mission-critical, it‘s a business imperative. One of the best ways to improve the ROI of your marketing channel programs is to increase engagement within each of those channels. And one of the best ways to increase engagement is by serving up immersive and interactive content to your audience.
That’s why we’ve partnered with Scott Meldrum, founder of Digitality, a leading digital hospitality consulting agency, to host this dynamic educational webinar, which you can watch right on our blog!
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We’re consistently looking for data from our customers on usage of their sales tool and returns they’re seeing on their investment with us. We gather this data through surveys and analytic metrics on an ongoing basis, reading every response and taking their input to heart.
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Due to popular demand, we’re excited to provide an enhanced product line from our CGI division. Now you can work with our designers to create fully custom TrueTour™ CGI decor setups built right into your 360°s!
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Hilton Hotels and Resorts are beginning to reintegrate TrueTour™ across their OneHeroWeb websites! This is an exciting new development to help increase selling efficiency and virtually invite guests into Hilton’s property as early as possible in their buying cycle.
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Luxury brands have done an incredible job innovating their way through a constantly changing environment throughout 2020 and into 2021. Viceroy Hotels & Resorts took initiative to implement the best way for their sales teams to sell at a distance.
Our customers have responded to this new normal in unprecedented ways. We’re thrilled to highlight some of our favorite ways our hotel and resort customers have integrated TrueTour across their websites.
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When selling Premium and Luxury hotel experiences, properties must feature the most high definition and high speed visuals. But it also needs to provide a white-glove experience for the viewer.
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Visiting Media introduces a brand new program designed to elevate CVB/DMO content sharing and virtual tour syndication. CVB/DMOs can showcase a succinct, professional, lead-generating virtual site visit experience integrated perfectly into their websites and across multiple touchpoints on the web.
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As the most important technology to keep in the budget for 2021, any company which relies on selling physical spaces cannot do business without virtual selling and sales enablement software. Companies who understand this look to Visiting Media to provide the most comprehensive virtual selling software on the market. Virtual sales enablement is the most important factor in your future revenue stream, and is distinctly different from a simple virtual tour.
Here, we lay out 5 differences between using a “virtual tour” and the process of virtual selling.
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Take a break and explore the world from a bird’s eye view! TrueTour™ customers are located in some of the most stunning destinations around the world. With their TrueTour™ Aerial 360°s, they can show visitors the sights, sounds and proximity to other attractions nearby. Come take a look!
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Property groups increasingly rely on sales enablement technology when syndicating their remote sales efforts. Yet, sales enablement platforms traditionally do not address the needs of cluster/podded sales team or include any virtual selling capabilities.
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As virtual touring and buying becomes the norm, not the exception, Select Service properties can take advantage of affordable virtual visit and site tour technology once believed attainable only for luxury or full-service properties. TrueTour™ provides packages fit for each level of service and accommodation, and is the right way to show the specific features and benefits that elevate select service above their competition. Because TrueTour allows properties to pick and choose their content combinations, each property asset is showcased to highlight their most effective selling points.
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Visiting Media has launched TrueTour CGI!
Using CGI technology, Visiting Media can produce exceptionally lifelike computer generated images showing socially distanced events within your venues – rounds, classroom, U-shape, lecture, weddings, and more – complete with photo-realistic event decor. With TrueTour™ CGI, you have access to photo-realistic CGI visuals of your venues based on new capacity requirements, all within a matter of days!
You already know the power of immersive visuals, so let us help you put your customer’s minds at ease by showing them what your safe and compliant events look like.
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Hotels and resorts continue to watch, wait and wonder when they’ll see through the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic. That doesn’t mean that virtual business has slowed down – in fact, it’s the exact opposite!
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Now is a great time to earn special benefits while helping spread the word about the ultimate at-a-distance/virtual selling tool. If you’re already a Visiting Media customer you can now take advantage of Visiting Media’s referral program!
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Traditional photo shoots can be very expensive and time-consuming to produce. Production fees, editing costs, licensing, not to mention the lost opportunity costs for the days of unrented space. All of the short-and-long-term expenses can take a substantial chunk of your marketing costs off the table for the year. That’s why Visiting Media is excited to provide an alternative to such a hefty investment.
With the latest extension of the national coronavirus shelter-in-place advisories, Visiting Media – maker of TrueTour™, hospitality’s leading immersive sales and marketing SaaS platform – sees a new normal emerging from the way hotels, resorts and event centers communicate, sell and show their properties from afar. Visiting Media’s industry adoption metrics have been fast-forwarded, with no sign of slowing down even after travel traffic rebounds.
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If you’ve walked a customer through your property using Facetime and your smartphone, TrueTour™ Drive will be your new favorite tool! TrueTour™ X includes this revolutionary new way to showcase your spaces to a customer in real time.
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Join us for a special webinar providing event sales teams with innovative ways to showcase their spaces from afar. Learn from Ben Powers, Vice President of Sales, Hotel and Resort Division, as he shares the numerous opportunities sellers have to safely host site tours and FAM meetings at a distance with TrueTour.
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Despite lockdowns, closures and quarantines around the world, the global tourism industry is leveraging immersive sales technology to weather the storm. Using new 360°/3D site visit technology to perform digital walk-throughs, plan future events at a distance and increase bookings, the safety of corporate planners, travel buyers and employees are kept as a top priority while saving the bottom line.
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Coming in 2021, TrueTour™ Version X will introduce previously unthinkable sales and marketing tools to planet Earth, truly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible when it comes to promoting hotels and resorts. Developed through super-user feedback, thought leadership, data-based invention and top industry R&D, this new TrueTour™ platform version combines many existing selling tools along with powerful immersive visuals to create a true selling super-tool… you truly have to experience it to understand the impact TrueTour™ X will have across the hospitality industry.
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If property groups weren’t already making the shift to podded, or cluster, sales teams, many TrueTour™ customers are quickly adjusting their sales structure due to current market demands. Many of these cluster sales teams work in remote offices offsite and are equipped to facilitate sales from a distance. These teams can handle sales for multiple properties and maintain high-level brand consistency. They require a portfolio of tools which are symbiotic and easily shareable, consumer-friendly and easy to use by a variety of customers – individual travelers, groups, planners, corporations and more.
To meet the growing needs of these podded teams, we’ve accelerated the release of a new TrueTour product which pulls resources and data from multiple TrueTours and puts it into one singular resource. Introducing the TrueTour HUB!
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As properties slowly reopen their doors to the public in socially distanced ways, outdoor amenities have become increasingly important to offer travelers safe outdoor experiences.
To help our customers attract travelers who are ready to soak up outdoor summer amenities, we’re releasing a new product which showcases a beautiful sense of place, differentiating properties in important ways consumers are engaging with now.
Introducing Aerial 3D, A brand-new offering which can be fully integrated into your current TrueTour™ tool, breathing new life into your immersive portfolio!
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