At first blush, the metaverse — a digital universe which supports an alternate reality — could seem intimidating to brick-and-mortar businesses. We see massive potential for our customers to open up revenue channels in the metaverse. Let us share a few ways we’re preparing for the metaverse today.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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Spire Hospitality, an industry leader using technology and innovation to enable top sales and marketing performance, is excited to leverage the TrueTour Test Drive program across their management portfolio! From New York to Boca Raton, Seattle to Burbank, hotels and resorts across the country will soon maximize immersive technology, showcasing an immersive standard of excellence.
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One of the latest additions to the Visiting Media family, Sheraton Waikiki, has just unveiled their stunning 360° imagery via their TrueTour tool. Coming soon to 6+ additional Marriott properties in Hawaii, stunning TrueTour visuals will take you on an epic journey across the Hawaiian islands, enjoying the beautiful vistas Marriott has to offer.
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Seeing notable TrueTour™ success with Accor properties in the United States, the company has expanded TrueTour to their Luxury & Premium brands in Central & Eastern Europe to elevate their international selling capabilities.
In the past 30 days we’ve released a number of new, highly anticipated features that dramatically improve the capabilities of TrueTour™, delivering significant impact for our customers. Take a look at a few of the things we’ve been working on behind the scenes:
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Visiting Media is thrilled to be providing the latest knowledge in immersive visual marketing at this year’s Association of Club Catering and Event Professionals (ACCP) Conference at The Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado!
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