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 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 early 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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While senior and assisted living facilities close their doors to visitors amid strict quarantine orders, virtual site visit technology brings a solution-oriented workaround to this new normal in senior living care.
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The latest in our TrueTour™ X feature series details a brand-new RFI gateway built as an add-on feature, loading directly into the TrueTour X platform. TrueTour’s RFI gateway will provide hospitality companies a syndicated way to effortlessly capture leads, deliver property details and respond with custom-built TrueTour experiences and bespoke proposals.
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Over the next 8 weeks, we’ll be providing a sneak peek into the latest features included in the next evolution of the TrueTour hospitality selling platform. If you haven’t read our blog post about this next version of TrueTour, called “TrueTour X,” please do; it’s going to blow your mind! The industry hasn’t seen technology like this before: a cutting-edge, game-changing platform with a fresh user interface and features you’ve been asking for (and some you probably never thought possible!).
Today, we start with one aspect of TrueTour X which is out-of-this-world — literally. The team has lovingly given this tool the nickname “TrueTour Holodeck”. If you thought virtual reality was from the future, this TrueTour X feature is right out of a science fiction novel.
We’re thrilled announce the January 1st, 2020 launch of TrueTour Video, our full-service, in-house video production division! Our customers now enjoy a suite of bespoke property video products designed to make selling easier and provide high quality content for marketing teams!
Powered by your TrueTour™ app, these videos integrate onto websites, into sales proposals, onto RFP platforms, and more — just like your current traditional and immersive content.
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IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has launched a TrueTour Test Drive program across their Company Managed and Luxury Division, providing access for over 70 hotels in North America to a bespoke, state-of-the-art immersive 360° and 3D sales solution at a significant savings. With this move, IHG becomes one of the global hotel groups leading the charge in the standardization of immersive sales and marketing tools.
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Woodside Hotel Group, the preeminent operator of distinguished, independent hotels, restaurants and spas in California, has officially launched Visiting Media’s TrueTour™ Immersive Selling Technology across their complete portfolio of hotels. Each property now leverages one-of-a-kind, bespoke 360°/3D sales technology to showcase their unique character and charm.
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Visiting Media is pleased to share that its TrueTour™ platform has been selected by Preferred Hotels & Resorts – the world’s largest independent hotel brand – as the exclusive 360°/3D content platform for the brand’s portfolio in the Americas as part of the brand’s Alliance Partner program.
Graduate Hotels has launched TrueTour™, Visiting Media’s bespoke 3D/360° hospitality sales technology, across its entire hotel portfolio. Visiting Media’s image standards and suite of state-of-the-art visual sales solutions are now Graduate’s benchmark for excellence in event and leisure selling.
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Integrating TrueTour onto your website is an important step when taking advantage of the power of immersive marketing. We sat down with Brian Lawrence, expert web designer and marketer in the wedding industry who thoroughly understands the elements which engage and inspire brides and grooms to take action. He knows how to convert browsers into leads and drive engagement online.
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Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, a pioneer in the boutique hotel industry, has chosen Visiting Media, the global leader in immersive hospitality visual marketing (3D/360°/Virtual Reality), as its global partner. Visiting Media’s image standards and suite of state-of-the-art visual sales solutions are now Kimpton’s benchmark for excellence in selling and immersive marketing.
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