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Visiting Media’s virtual selling solutions empower thousands of individual, cluster and global sales teams. Our reputation as world leaders of immersive sales and marketing and virtual site inspection technology is based on years of research, product innovation and consistently delivering exceptionally high ROI to our customers. Become a believer; contact us and experience our bespoke selling solutions firsthand.

"A Game-Changer for Our Hotels. Five Stars!"

Working with Visiting Media has been a great experience… We’re all trying to bring the experience in our hotels and resorts to our customer, and this is a very easy, tangible way to do that.

Brad Mettler

Director of sales and marketing, our selling solutions.

Today, Visiting Media helps thousands of companies sell to the 21st century customer. TrueTour is built for the salesperson by salespeople. Blending bespoke digital assets with all of your current sales tools, our customers receive best-in-class media delivered via a digital asset management powerhouse. The TrueTour Experience is more than a tour, it's a conversation.

TrueTour: Virtual Selling Enablement

Is your team spending hours answering RFPs instead of speaking with prospects and closing deals? You have a problem, and are losing out on revenue. We’ve helped thousands of hotels with a solution they didn’t know existed – until now – with the world’s first immersive selling enablement software for hospitality.

• Provide your teams with the tools they need to quickly pitch, demo and convert buyers faster through the sales cycle
• Blend your current resources with Visiting Media’s TrueTour technology for a custom virtual site inspection for each customer
• Salespeople can create personalized experiences with tailored messages and greetings for each prospect

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You don’t need multiple platforms with features that sound nice but never get used. As the world’s only immersive-enabled SuperDAM solution, your 360°, 3D and virtual reality visuals are displayed lightning fast alongside all of your other critical selling tools. Don’t pay for things your team doesn’t love. Everything your team needs – nothing they don’t.

• Upload, link, manage, store and share digital assets into one cloud-based solution — PDFs, images, 360°s, 3D models, websites, diagrams and more
• Keep assets current across your entire organization from your syndicated Content Dashboard; features file previews
• Advanced search, tagging and sorting gets the right content to the right teams; featuring role-base permissions

Managed Services

From 360° imagery to 3D modeling, CGI to digital architecture, Visiting Media’s Managed Services spans five continents for syndicated production around the globe. Our service provides virtual site inspection visuals of the highest quality loaded into the TrueTour sales enablement platform.As part of our Managed Services, there is never a cost to replace content after remodels.

• Wholesale pricing passes the savings onto our customers, providing affordable content options fit for your property needs
• 360° and 3D content is replaced for free when you remodel, ensuring immersive visuals are always current
• We only provide immersive assets of the highest quality standards, consulting with brand managers for consistency portfolio wide

Training & Support

Multiple platforms, numerous features – yet, what your team truly needs is simplicity. Your team doesn’t need to struggle with platforms that overpromise and underdeliver. With TrueTour, receive extensive one-on-one training for all team members across your property. With live and video training, you can receive best practices and continued learning with every innovation launched with your platform.

• Our commitment is to creating selling superheroes within your organization. We drive adoption as a partner with your teams
• Leverage multiple modes of learning - from in-app guidance to virtual trainings to on-site workshops, discover a method that works for your team
• Take advantage of our best practices provided by Success Managers who have years of experience enabling sales teams with maximum adoption

For those of you who are not using TrueTour, you definitely need to upgrade… To be honest, it has greatly shaped how I do my job on a daily basis.

Michelle Carter

Restaurant sales executive.

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The future of corporate travel: 2024 trends and developments, ben powers appointed ceo of visiting media, the unique way select service hotels see success with truetour™, hotel technology adoption: the need for leaps, not steps.

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Create And Display Virtual Tours In 360º and VR

CloudPano 360° virtual tour software empowers you to create 360° virtual tours. With a few clicks, you can upload, connect, and publish a 360° immersive experience and host a 360º video chat call. No coding required. Get started today, its free. Sign Up Now.

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What is a 360º virtual tour.

A 360º virtual tour on CloudPano is a marketing and sales tool to view and share a space in an immersive 360º environment. With a smartphone, the CloudPano viewer responds to your movement. This creates a responsive and immersive view of the property or interior space. Create your first 360º virtual tour in 5 minutes or less.

Add or Embed 360º Virtual Tours on any Website

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When you publish a 360º virtual tour on CloudPano.com, you will automatically receive a code based link. You can embed your tour right onto your website. We host the tour, you show it off to the world.

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Your CloudPano 360º tours automatically integrate with realtor.com, Zillow, Apartments.com, Zumper, Hotpads, Trulia, Dealer.com and more!

If you are marketing real estate, you can embed your 360º tours on 3rd party listings and your website.

The CloudPano team is constantly innovating with industry leaders.

Simple 3D Tour Creation

Create your first tour in under five minutes.

Upload photos using a drag-and-drop interface. Click a single button to set an initial view for each scene. Add hotspots to navigate your tour.

Popular Features

Customize your logo

Set initial view

Re-order scenes

Share In Full 360º and VR

Share and display on any smart device out of the box.

Give meaningful experiences to your viewers. Built-in motion sensing capabilities and VR-goggle modes work right in the mobile browser. Reach your customer on any platform. Simply share your virtual tour with a single URL link.

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No app to download

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Customize Your Tour Branding

Add logos, embedded media, google analytics, and more.

Use linked hotspots to teleport between scenes. Add your logo and establish your brand. Embed video, raw HTML, chat bots - anything.

Customize Your Logo

Contact Information

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White-label your virtual tour

Use your own website domain.

Remove all references of CloudPano.com. Use your own logo and keep your website domain. Easily use your own URL. Add 360º virtual tours into your business and keep our name hidden.

Customize Your URL

Remove CloudPano Branding

Create Google Street View Virtual Tours

Business owners can upload 360º photos directly to Google Street View and keep their Google My Business listing up-to-date. When you create a Google Street View virtual tour on CloudPano, you integrate your 360º virtual tour with Google Maps. ‍ Boost local SEO and create a walkthrough experience inside your Google Maps and Google My Business listing.

Live 360º Video Chat

Our market-leading 360º video chat lets you hop into a 360º sales environment with one click. Share your screen and guide your participants through the CloudPano virtual tour. Quickly turn a 360º virtual tour prospect into an active and engaged lead thats ready to buy now .

No app download required

Up to 4 participants per call

Join from any device

No complicated set up

With one click jump into a video call and start closing in 360º.

3D Dollhouse Floor Plans

Add immersive 3D dollhouse floor plans to your virtual tours. With a few clicksyou can create and customize 3D floor plans that connect and engage inside yourvirtual tour experience. If you are looking for 3D floor plan software, CloudPano is the perfectvirtual tour solution.

Add 3D floor plans to your virtual tours

Connect hotspots to 360º photos

Add 2D black and white or color floor plans

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Start a local 360º virtual tour business, add virtual reality marketing to current business.

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Add or Embed Your Published 360º Virtual Tours Directly To Your Website or Blog (Wordpress Compatible)

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CloudPano.com is a Virtual Tour Software built for entrepreneurs, photographers and real estate agents, brokers, car dealers, RV dealers, manufacturers and sales teams. You will be empowered to create world class 360º/VR virtual tours quickly, market at a high level AND keep your brand on the front of tour. If you are looking for a 360º virtual tour software built for the business owner - you are in the right place.

Simple Pricing

• Three Published Projects Unlimited projects - swap published projects as needed
• Unlimited scenes and photos per project
• Scene Types Like 360 Photos, Spins, 360 Video, 2D Images, 2D Video
• Add Hot Spots and Embed Media Share, embed, and display projects anywhere
• Unlimited Published Projects
• Whitelabel / Bring your own URL
• Team Collaboration
• Tour Privacy Settings
• CloudPano Live in-tour Video Chat
• Create Floor Plans and Dollhouse Tours
• Google Street View Virtual Tours
• Custom Design and Functionality to ensure project success
• Custom Integrations and Workflows
• Dedicated Account Manager
• Custom Training and Onboarding
• Multiple Seats Discount
• Great for special projects and teams

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User testimonials.

"The technology is pretty amazing and the finished 3D tour is high definition. The tours played well on everything from a desktop to a cellphone. Highly recommended."

Donald Pierce

“ It's marketing like that this that makes you stick out amongst your competition ... and ultimately this moves property at a high level."

Carmello Pronesti

“ This technology changes the game. My customers are very excited about it. And I know when my customers are excited about it, I am going to make some more money . ”

Mark Mckinney

"360 tours are an easy way to upsell my clients on location. Plus, it only takes a few minutes to create a virtual tour on CloudPano.com."

Brian Berkowitz

“ CloudPano has a crisp and clean design . Plus the platform hosts the 360 virtual tours for me, so I can create tours quickly and get back to shooting."

Tony Thagard

I appreciate your team helping me out along the way and answering all questions that I have had so far. I am excited to continue to grow my business with the help of you and your team."

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LCP Media is a national visual media technology company that creates unforgettable virtual real estate experiences by combining unrivaled technology solutions with our unparalleled customer service. Simply put, we deliver an unreal experience from start to finish.

Professional Community Virtual Tours

Offer prospects an immersive tour of your property. Our platform empowers you to customize, manage, and monitor your digital assets, from 360-degree views to photos and videos.

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Boost your leasing rates with our user-friendly camera kit. Capture and present the exact units prospects are eager to explore through 360-degree views, photos, and videos. Learn More

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Increase resident conversion rates with high-quality photos that inspire prospects to tour (and lease) your community faster.

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LCP Media partners with the leading names in the apartment industry for their digital media requirements, including those recognized in The National Multifamily Housing Council's prestigious rankings of the Top 50 Apartment Owners, Top 50 Managers, Top 25 Developers, and Top 25 Builders in the nation.

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"Our partnership with LCP Media has been beneficial in so many ways including an increase in the number of qualified leads, creating a positive impact on sight unseen leases, as well as changing the status quo in apartment search."

"By leveraging this technology, we not only increase leasing potential, but we also raise our visibility online. In partnership with LCP Media, we are afforded a better opportunity to generate more traffic and earn additional leases."

"So real, It's Unreal... the quality of LCP Media's work is just that. Legacy Partners has worked alongside LCP to create over 15 virtual tours, and this is just the beginning! We look forward to continuing our partnership with LCP Media to create more impactful visual media for the rest of our properties."

“At Greystar, we go through a comprehensive process to identify our preferred partners. We admire LCP Media’s commitment to innovation and dedication to customer success. Their visual media products are exceptional, and we’re delighted to have had them as a preferred partner for many years.”

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Experience media is a pa based digital marketing agency helping to market businesses, real estate listings, and creating captivating media to drive engagement., start your project, thanks for submitting, residential real estate, interactive virtual content and digital marketing solutions for:, benefits of using a virtual tour in your day to day sales & marketing efforts:.

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We're a specialty service that creates 360 Virtual Tours, Drone and breathtaking photos to level up your business.

About Experience Media

Experience Media was founded in 2020 by two entrepreneurs who saw the potential of 360 Virtual Tours.  We deliver Virtual Tours, Photography, Aerial Services, and Content Marketing across all industries. We understand people work endlessly to grow their business and we want to do our best to showcase each one in the most immersive way possible. Having a strong digital presense as the customer journey migrates more and more online is crucial. Our Interactive Virtual Tours make putting your business on the map, easy and affordable .

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Easy to Use

Simple, powerful, and intuitive interface without distraction.

Immersive Experience

Provide your customers with an immersive experience where they can see details that would be missed with traditional photos.

Works on Mobile Devices

Take your tours with you wherever you go, and share them with others easily.

ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS GROWTH WITH IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL CONTENT.

Keep People engaged longer Research shows that people stay on websites with Virtual Tours 5-10x longer than those without. Virtual Tours are interactive which keeps users engaged and clicking for a few minutes touring your space.

Increase Trust and Transparency Give users the sense of really walking through your property from the comfort of their home. Show that your business is open, honest and transparent about your space instead of just claiming it. 

Increase visibility and Local Rank on Google Studies have shown that having a Virtual Tour attached to your Google My Business Listing boosts your Local SEO meaning you will rank higher than your local competitors.

Saves you Time and Money  A Virtual Tour is a one and done deal that brings many benefits from a digital marketing standpoint.

Stand Out in the Crowd Anyway you can make your business stand out in the digital age we live in is undoubtedly worth it. What better way to stand out than having a 360 Virtual Tour embedded on your website and attached to your Google Listing?

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Our 360 degree virtual tours give customers a first hand experience of your space.

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Gym and fitness centers, why choose experience media , receive content within 1 business day, our team is  drone pilot certified & google street view trusted, tons of 5 star client testimonials, sell homes faster and for more money , proven to grow your business with premium digital content, our photography  gallery.

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• What services do you provide? We’re a full-service local real estate media company and offer photos, virtual tours, drone, floor plans, virtual staging, marketing kits and more. You can check out our work and pricing here: https://www.experiencevirtualtours.com/order
• What do you charge for photos? Our listing photos package starts at $179.99. You can check out our work and prices at https://www.experiencevirtualtours.com/order
• What areas do you cover? See our Full Service Area Map on our Order Form below: https://www.experiencevirtualtours.com/order We cover primarily the following PA counties: Monroe, Northampton, Lehigh, Carbon, Bucks, Schuylkill, Montgomery, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Berks, Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Wayne, Pike. We also cover these NJ counties: Warren, Morris, Sussex, Hunterdon, Somerset
• How do I get a Quote? If you follow the steps with the link below, you will be able to view all of our services and their cost. Select Residential Real Estate, Rental, Commercial or Land and enter any property address to get started. You can close out of the order form at any time! Experience Media Order Form Link: https://www.experiencevirtualtours.com/order
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Make the most of your virtual tour: Strategies that drive engagement

When I worked on campus, one of my favorite interactions was greeting admitted students and their parents when they arrived to take a tour. Their excitement was palpable, and you could see them falling in love with our institution as they explored campus and got to know our community.

This spring, things are different. With campuses closed, many students and their parents are reconnecting with your campus or getting their first impressions virtually. More than ever, colleges and universities are leveraging virtual campus tours to enhance connections with admitted students, build relationships with future classes, and remind current students why they should return to campus.

The numbers speak for themselves. Google searches for “virtual campus tours” increased 2x in the past month. And, in that same timeframe, 1.4 million people viewed one or more of our YouVisit virtual tours. As student interest in virtual visits grows, here are some best practices to help your tour stand out and increase student engagement throughout the admissions funnel.

High school seniors are taking virtual tours at a rate 228% higher than they were at this time last year

High school juniors are viewing virtual tours at a rate 258% higher than they were at this time last year

High school sophomores are viewing virtual tours at a rate 204% higher than they were at this time last year

Make sure your virtual tour is widely accessible across your site

While search volume for “virtual campus tours” has skyrocketed, some students and parents may not be aware of opportunities to visit campus virtually. To make sure as many people as possible find your virtual tour , embed it on your institution’s homepage. And consider including a virtual tour link in your website’s navigation bar, allowing visitors to take your virtual tour from any part of your website. Including the tour link in your website’s header and footer will also help it stand out and improve access. 

In addition to embedding the virtual tour on key pages like your admissions and admitted students landing pages, think about other places students might go expecting to see campus images such as your athletics or residence life pages. One of my favorite virtual tour capabilities is the ability to launch your tour immediately from a destination of interest. For example, students browsing your College of Engineering’s landing page could click into a virtual tour and be transported immediately to a tour of the College of Engineering.

Promote your virtual tour across all marketing channels, especially via email and social media

Promoting your virtual tour across marketing channels drives tour traffic, and it engages Gen Z in the kind of immersive experiences students crave. For example, some admissions teams place their virtual tour link in their email signatures. Some enrollment leaders I spoke with in the first few weeks of the COVID-19 crisis were skeptical students would respond to email marketing. We’ve found email open and click-through rates have remained steady throughout the COVID-19 crisis, and response rates are 17% higher than they were for similar emails sent this time last year.

Another great way to amplify your virtual tour impact is through social media channels. Many of our partners enjoy success installing a virtual experience link on Facebook, starting a virtual tour hashtag on Twitter, or promoting their virtual tour in an Instagram story. And while your prospective freshmen are more likely to use these social media channels than LinkedIn, a post promoting your virtual tour on LinkedIn will re-engage alumni with your campus.

Ensure your virtual tour is just the first step in a student’s engagement

Virtual tours help reveal stealth activity, so it’s important to have an effective inquiry collection experience within your tour. A conversational inquiry form like those embedded in YouVisit virtual tours give personalized prompts as the visitor moves through the form. These forms generate two times the number of inquiries and give enrollment teams insight that helps them convert interest into intent.

It’s also key to use inquiry data from your virtual tour in your marketing and communication campaigns. Tagging your website so that you can track conversions and interactions after a student completes the tour allows you to personalize future communications with that student.

To drive the most traffic to and engagement with your virtual tour:

1. Embed or link to your virtual tour on your website’s homepage, in the navigation bar, and in the header and footer to ensure students don’t overlook a chance to tour your campus 2. Drive awareness by connecting your virtual tour to all your marketing channels 3. Make sure your tour prompts students and parents to engage further and use their web page visits to understand more about their interests and goals

While it seems counterintuitive, students who take virtual tours are more likely to visit campus in-person than those who do not. I look forward to the day we can welcome students and families back on campus for more of those falling-in-love moments. Nothing replaces experiencing a campus in-person, but a virtual tour is the next best thing.

See how a virtual tour can enhance your enrollment strategy

Learn how youvisit’s patented technology platform combines 360-degree photos, videos, and other media types to create immersive experience that allow you to tell your campus’ story in a unique way., you may also like, recruitment trends and tactics to consider amid list source uncertainty.

Recent cancellations of ACT/SAT tests will have important implications for recruitment strategy. Learn the potential impacts related to targeting strategy, institutional policy, and student testing behavior.

Stuck at home, teens continue to engage in the college journey

Learn how the coronavirus is impacting digital engagement factors for college-bound students including email open and click rates, web visits, and deposits.

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6 Ways to Integrate Virtual Tours in Your Social Media Marketing

COVID-19 has shifted the marketing landscape. Behaviors acquired this year, largely connected with a more digital economy and communications landscape, are not just temporary but here to stay for the long run. Organizations across industries are adjusting accordingly, especially in regards to their social media marketing strategy.

Virtual tours applied the right way, can improve the online presence of organizations in a wide range of industries. In higher education, campus tours can help with student recruitment. Patients will appreciate a preview of the physical hospital space they’re about to visit. Hotels and attractions, meanwhile, can stand out among their competition for prospective tourists and travelers. All of these benefits only rise in importance with a shift to more digital culture and landscape.

And yet, they’re only the beginning. The effectiveness of virtual tours is not isolated to your website. Applied correctly, they can have an immense effect on your entire digital strategy, including social media.

Like so many other digital channels, social media has risen in popularity over the last few months. Instagram, for instance, reported a 70% increase in video views this summer. Across networks, engagement almost instantly increased by 10%. With social media marketing continuing to increase in importance, consider these 6 ways to integrate your virtual tours into your social strategy.

1) Build Visual Engagement Opportunities

Social media is, above all, a visual communications tool. Studies show again and again that even something as straightforward as including photos or videos dramatically increases user engagement . It’s especially true on networks like Instagram, which are built entirely on visuals.

That makes posting about your virtual tour a perfect fit for this medium. And, in fact, it can be that easy: simply share your tour on your preferred social media platforms at strategic times for your audience and within your content calendar .

Depending on the tour creator and platform you use, this might be easy or complex. Ideally, your virtual tour should have a ‘share’ button to spread the word.

2) Share Individual Tour Stops

Depending on the software, you can go beyond sharing the entire experience on social media as well. In fact, you can share individual tour stops and even individual media to your social media channels for more targeted reach and engagement on social media.

This is especially relevant for multi-entity organizations. For instance, your university’s business school may be more interested in sharing the tour stop featuring its stand-out building than the tour as a whole. Of course, even as the direct link points towards a single stop, the audience still gets exposed to the larger tour anytime they click on that link.

The same concept, though, remains valid for any type of organization. If nothing else, it expands your pool of content for potential posts. Given how frequently experts recommend posting on social media for maximum engagement, that extra content can become an important piece of your content calendar.

3) Post Condensed Videos of Your Tour

You can build more complex engagement opportunities than simply sharing your tour on social media. One option is to give your audience a preview of what to expect when they view and engage with it on your website.

Most virtual tours, of course, are built-in formats that are more complex (and interactive) than a simple video you could share directly on your social channels. But there’s a way around it.

For instance, consider using a simple screen recording tool that captures what you see on your screen. Then, record yourself moving through your virtual tour. You can now turn that recording into a preview video, whether it be through a time lapse that condenses its length and adds visual appeal or by showing only a stop or two.

A great way to do this is through the screen recording platform, VEED. VEED is best for anyone–Windows, Mac, or Linux Users–who wants a powerful and free online screen recorder and editor with no video duration limits. VEED will help you edit, share, and manage your screen recordings all in one website. Check out their blog to learn four easy ways to record your screen with the best video quality.

With this technique, you get the engagement. Now, all you need to do is include a link to the full tour in the video captions, so those interested enough to learn more can easily do so. Just like that, you’ve created an internal engagement opportunity that still maximizes exposure for your full tour.

4) Leverage Social Media for Storytelling

Brand storytelling has become a buzzword in social media circles in recent circles, and for good reason. Research has shown that audiences who love a brand’s story become 55% more likely to buy from that brand, and 44% more likely to share its content.

Social media is a natural fit to tell your brand’s story in a humanized, personal way. Brands like Dove, Apple, and Airbnb have adjusted their social media marketing strategy accordingly , focusing on stories to drive awareness and persuasion.

Here’s a secret: your virtual tour can play a core role in taking a similar approach. After all, what is a well-built tour if not an opportunity to tell your story? By showcasing your physical space , you can:

• Talk about your organization’s history.
• Offer behind-the-scenes looks into your organization.
• Tell a product or service’s origin story.

That’s all true for your website, but it’s just as crucial on social media. In fact, as you promote your tour on your social channels, highlight these exact things in your captions or the exact content you’re sharing. That expands your storytelling beyond your website, bringing it to the medium in which your audience most looks for it.

5) Drive Conversations About Your Tour and Business

The opportunity for social interaction social media affords brands in reaching out to audiences. Virtual tours allow you to create a “hook” that drives these conversations and prompts your audience to interact with you.

You can create and prompt these conversations in a few different ways:

• Posting tour-related content under a general hashtag specific to your audience or industry.
• Ask your audience to share their own experiences for the physical spaces. For example, show a university’s student center that you’re showcasing on the tour.
• Prominently showcase your social media ‘share’ options for your audience, so they can create their own posts focused on the tour.
• Ask your audience for feedback on the type of content you should include in future iterations of the tour.

Of course, those are only some ideas to leverage your tours for engagement. Your virtual tour becomes a starter for a conversation that you can drive and manage. However, it’s just as dependent on your audience to keep going.

6) Connect Tour-Related Social Posts With Larger Contexts

Finally, social media marketing offers a prime opportunity to link your virtual tour into a larger context in which it becomes even more relevant. That sounds abstract, but can take a number of shapes depending on the contexts and events in which you (and your industry) typically communicate:

• Universities may want to highlight their tour as part of a larger communication plan.
• Hospitals may leverage their virtual tours as part of an open house or virtual open house. Thus, showcasing their facilities to a new level of the audience.
• Hotels may look to showcase their spaces as part of a larger event within the area in which they’re located.
• Event and conference spaces may look to link their tours into typical dates in which event organizers typically book facilities to increase their engagement.

The possibilities here once again range widely. We’ve seen organizations post their tours on social media as they were sending emails about the same topic, linked them together with other content related to the same context via hashtags, and more.

On social media, every piece of content works better if it gets connected to a larger web of engagement opportunities. The virtual tour, freed from its constraints as a web-only communications tool, can allow you to do just that.

How to Start Integrating Virtual Tours in Your Social Media Marketing

In short, regardless of how you look to connect your virtual tour to your social media marketing efforts, the benefits tend to be both mutual and exponential. Every link between the two helps you better engage your audience and increase brand awareness.

Social media benefits from virtual tours because they are the perfect type of content for its medium and algorithms. Virtual tours, meanwhile, benefit from social media to get the word out and increase audience attention. Together, they’re a power couple destined to push your digital marketing efforts forward.

Of course, it all depends on the effective integration of your virtual tour with your social media marketing strategy. That begins with finding a platform that makes this integration easy, through intuitive sharing opportunities and content. Contact us to learn more about our platform, and how we can help you optimize your virtual tours for just that purpose.

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Welcome to RTV’s Fusion virtual tour system features page. Since 1999 RTV has offered professional photographers and entrepreneurs worldwide the very best in virtual tour software technology. Fusion is our fifth release, and by far our most powerful. This dynamic system puts the most powerful photography, panorama, video, and audio playback engine in your creative hands. Everything you want in a virtual tour and online presentation is possible with Fusion.

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Every month hundreds of our full service providers log on for two brand new episodes of The FORMULA. The FORMULA is a sales and marketing webinar that is hosted by our Vice President Jason LaVanture and often a guest host. During the webinar, we discuss marketing strategies, interview top RTV providers; train our providers to be the best of the best, and show inside tricks privy only to RTV virtual tour providers. Often these shows contain polls for our providers and sometimes we allow our members to ask questions and discuss their best marketing strategies. This is how we apply The FORMULA to your business!

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The IMAGE covers introductory and advanced photography tips and reveals how to capture the best images when shooting photography for property marketing purposes. We also explore some useful techniques that our photographers can use to take advantage of Adobe Photoshop, elevated shots, night shots, filter usage, flash usage, and more! The IMAGE is a one hour show and for those just joining the network, we have over thirty past episodes that you can listen to at your leisure. The IMAGE was originally created to provide RTV photographers with tips and tricks to help improve their photography for our national accounts that are under contract with us. This show has far exceeded our expectations and has helped so many win more business in their local markets too. Join us each month for the IMAGE and learn how you can capture the perfect IMAGE every time.

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Online Virtual Tours: The 69 BEST to Explore in 2023

You found our list of the best online virtual tours !

Virtual tours are online experiences that enable visitors to experience museums, zoos, national parks, landmarks, and attractions. These tours use methods such as 360 pictures, satellite imagery, virtual reality, or video conferencing to bring famous sites into living rooms or classrooms. The purpose of these tours is to inspire, entertain and educate audiences. These experiences are also called “online tours.”

These tours are popular virtual field trips and can be fun online classroom activities .

This post includes:

• virtual museum tours
• online tours of national parks
• virtual zoo tours

So, here is the list!

List of virtual museum tours

Here is a list of online museum tours that are perfect for both adults and kids. We also have a list of virtual museum scavenger hunt templates for you to use.

1. Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History offers a self-guided virtual tour of current and past museum exhibits. This experience includes narrated components, accessible via computer or smartphone. The Smithsonian also offers virtual experiences for its other institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Museum of the American Indian.

Visit the Smithsonian .

2. British Museum

The British Museum hosts an online “Museum of the World” that enables visitors to browse exhibits by area of origin, era, and subject matter. For example, you can search the collection by themes like “power and identity” or “art and design.” Each digital exhibit includes a picture, description, audio file, and links to related artifacts.

Visit British Museum .

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3. Auschwitz

This virtual tour of Auschwitz offers a panoramic birds eye view of the camps, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau, along with clickable descriptions of each area. Online visitors can also switch to an illustrated map of the grounds to better understand the scope of the concentration camps. The online tour is available in both English and Polish.

Visit Auschwitz .

4. Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House welcomes visitors from around the world with digital experiences such as video, virtual reality, 360° photos of the Frank home, and translations of the diary in over 20 languages. Virtual visitors can also browse a pocket gallery by downloading the app.

Visit Anne Frank House .

5. 9/11 Memorial & Museum

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum website has a learn and explore feature which includes live, guide-led panoramic virtual tours of the rebuilt center, interactive videos, and webinar stories. The site also recommends activities to do at home with children to simulate the museum’s activity stations.

Visit 9/11 Memorial & Museum .

6. Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums provides an online experience consisting of 360° high resolution photos of over a dozen features such as the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms. The website also grants web access to archaeological areas, various departments, and a searchable online catalogue.

Visit Vatican Museums .

7. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Austria hosts a digital museum consisting of an online collection, artist talks and lectures, podcasts and Spotify series, and high resolution images of works and galleries. The museum also has its own app that enables online walk-throughs, including specialty tours for children.

Visit the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien .

8. National Museum (New Delhi)

New Delhi’s National Museum, often called the National Museum of India, displays the largest collection of art and artifacts in the country. The institution’s Museum at Home web portal consists of dozens of videos depicting sculptures, artifacts, and customs, with accompanying cultural analysis from curators. The site also links to several 360° and 3-D virtual galleries that enable online walk-throughs of the building.

Visit the National Museum (New Delhi) .

9. National Palace Museum & the Forbidden City (Beijing)

The National Palace Museum sits in the heart of Beijing and houses centuries worth of art and history. The museum building is a monument to classic Chinese architecture, as is the surrounding palace complex, the Forbidden City. Virtual visitors can tour works inside the museum and stroll through the outer courtyards by indulging in interactive and immersive virtual and VR tours. Both options give viewers the opportunity to explore the grounds up close without navigating the crowds.

Visit National Palace Museum and the Forbidden City .

10. Pergamonmuseum

Pergamonmuseum in Berlin contains a wealth of art and archaeological treasures, and curators give home viewers a glimpse into the collections through several online exhibits on Google Arts & Culture. The collection includes over 1,000 images of objects made of clay, metal, copper, and gemstone, originating in regions such as Iran, Spain, Turkey, and Germany.

Visit Pergamonmuseum .

11. National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia offers free one hour digital excursions to schools that cannot visit the museum in person. The tours are available on weekdays between 9:30-10:30 am or at other times by request, and accommodate groups of 10 to 30 students. Classes meet with museum staff via Zoom and complete missions based around themes like the fight for indigenous rights. Virtual exhibition gallery tours are also available on occasion.

Visit the National Museum of Australia and check out these Indigenous Peoples Day ideas .

The Louvre virtual tour consists of 360° panoramic views of exhibit halls such as Egyptian Antiquities and the ruins of the Louvre Moat. By downloading a special app, visitors can also experience Mona Lisa in virtual reality. The museum website hosts multimedia online exhibitions of famous works such as Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour and Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss.

Visit the Louvre .

13. Guggenheim

The Guggenheim museum offers staff facilitated online tours for students ranging from kindergarten to grade 12. Educators can book interactive, real-time tours for classes that engage students and enable question and answer sessions. Tours are no cost for New York City public schools. For other districts the tours are less than $100, and discounted rates are available. Tours have a maximum of 30 participants, meaning groups are sure to receive an intimate experience.

Visit Guggenheim .

14. Musée d’Orsay

The Google Arts tour of the Musée d’Orsay includes background and history on the museum building, as well as images, descriptions, and details of some of the museum’s most famous works. For example, the collection includes Van Gogh’s Self Portrait , James McNeill Whistler’s Whistler’s Mother , and Bartholdi’s Liberty .

Visit Musée d’Orsay .

15. Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a Dutch National Museum that hosts an impressive array of art and history. Rijksmuseum’s virtual tour, which includes a Rijksmuseum from home series, consists of high definition pictures, videos, and audio narration that details seminal works inside the museum. The experience also includes interactive components such as a “find the key” challenge and creative tutorials.

Visit Rijksmuseum .

16. Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City launched a virtual views series which enables website visitors to browse rotating online exhibits. As part of the series, the MoMA site also hosts virtual events with components such as live Q&A sessions with artists and curators, readings and theatrical performances, 3-D renderings, and interactive games.

Visit MoMA .

17. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met 360° Project is a collection of six wide-lens videos compatible with both virtual reality systems, or regular computer screens or smartphones. Virtual viewers take a point-of-view tour of museum areas such as the Great Hall, the Met Cloisters, and the Arms and Armor Gallery, set to a soundtrack of instrumental music. The Met website also hosts an Art at Home series that offers up close virtual access and analysis to famous works, as well as videos of conservation projects and instructions for art projects.

Visit the MET .

18. Paul J. Getty Museum

The Google Arts & Culture online tour of the Getty Museum spans dozens of exhibits with thousands of digital artifacts. Pieces span as far back as the eighth century until modern times, with notable pieces including The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul , Rembrandt Laughing , and Irises .

Visit the Getty Museum .

19. Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago facilitates online visits consisting of virtual video and audio tours, searchable online collections, digital publications, as well as online lesson plans and art projects. There is even an “Ask an Educator” form that enables parents or teachers to communicate with museum staff who hand-pick resources to assist with lessons planning.

Visit the Art Institute of Chicago .

20. National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. website hosts digital perspectives, virtual exhibitions, and digital collections. The online experience also includes streamable films visitors can watch online.

Visit the National Gallery of Art .

21. The National Gallery (London)

The National Gallery of London offers immersive virtual tours accessible via smartphone, computer, or virtual reality headset. Through three different remote tours, virtual visitors can explore multiple wings of the museum, 18+ rooms, and 300+ paintings. The Gallery’s robust social media presence promotes further interaction with online art.

Visit The National Gallery .

22. Uffizi Gallery

The Google Arts & Culture Tour of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence explores four online exhibitions and hundreds of pieces of arts and artifacts, many in the Renaissance style. Notable pieces include Birth of Venus by Botecelli, Portraits of the Duke & Duchess of Urbino by Piero Della Francesca, and Madonna of the Goldfinch by Raphael.

Visit Uffizi Gallery .

23. Frida Kahlo Museum

The virtual tour of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City is one of the most colorful museum tours online. Virtual visitors tour various areas of the grounds in a 360°, up close experience. The colors of the architecture and artifacts are works of art in themselves, and are sure to brighten viewers’ days. The website offers additional resources including downloadable photos, videos, quotes, and even recipes.

Visit Frida Kahlo Museum .

24. Russian Museum

The Virtual Russian Museum is a web portal consisting of several digital resources such as online lectures, virtual 3-D walk through tours of the museum complex with accompanying audio, and a multimedia center. The multimedia component of the virtual branch includes digital content and displays, broadcasts and video conferencing, and interactive web workshops.

Visit Russian Museum .

25. Tokyo National Museum

The Tokyo National Museum contains artworks and antiquities dating back several centuries, and displays over 100 digital images of textiles, clay-ware, ceramics, and similar artifacts on its Google Arts & Culture tour. During this remote museum tour, virtual visitors peruse Asian art and conduct Google Earth walk-throughs of museum galleries.

Visit Tokyo National Museum .

26. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

This online tour of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea enables web visitors to explore the country’s unique culture and heritage. The tour includes multiple online exhibits, hundreds of pieces of modern artwork, and several floors of the building, including sections of the outdoor sculpture garden.

Visit the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art .

27. MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo has an impressive online presence with over 1,000 images of paintings, photographs, and objects in its Google Arts & Culture collection. Online visitors can delve into South American art and culture by exploring online exhibits and browsing through digital collections. The Google App also enables virtual reality tours of the museum via smartphone.

Visit MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo .

28. Space Center Houston

Space Center Houston offers free interactive virtual learning experiences like an online Apollo 13 exhibit, video series, and an app that offers mobile tours plus augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. The center also occasionally hosts virtual stargazing camp-outs and suggests at home science experiments and games. Plus, the website is a wealth of online outer space resources.

Visit Space Center Houston .

29. American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History suggests several options for virtual visits. These options include virtual field trips, an “inside the museum” high resolution picture tour, guided tours on Facebook live, and an expedition app experience that includes quizzes and exhibit highlights.

Visit American Museum of Natural History .

30. Oxford University’s History of Science Museum

The Oxford History of Science Museum website displays past exhibits so virtual visitors can learn more about concepts such as antibiotics, the human brain, and the Transit of Venus. The format of each online exhibit varies, but most contain, at minimum, sample images and descriptions.

Visit Oxford University’s History of Science Museum .

31. The National Museum of the United States Air Force

The National Museum of the United States Air Force provides digital resources such as 360° photo cockpit tours, podcasts, and videos. The site also supplies lesson plans broken down by grade level, with extras like aircraft coloring pages and word searches.

Visit The National Museum of the United States Air Force .

32. The National Museum of Computing

The National Museum of Computing offers a comprehensive 3D virtual tour of the entire museum, with multiple touch-points explaining the significance of fixtures. The online walk-through enables a point-of-view, clickable dollhouse tour of the entire building, with a wealth of supplemental materials like videos, audio files, and documents. For a fee, the museum also arranges curated virtual tours that form a more personalized experience.

Visit The National Museum of Computing .

33. Boston Museum of Science

Boston’s premier science museum presents a Museum of Science at Home experience consisting of virtual exhibits, daily live streams, podcasts, town halls, and family STEM activities. The museum provides digital programs for both adults and children, with highlights including live social events, an ant colony webcam, and stimulating multimedia content.

Visit the Boston Museum of Science .

34. Glazer Children’s Museum

The Glazer Children’s Museum website hosts virtual experiences such as digital field trips and weekly facilitated live Zoom play sessions. These sessions have educational themes like music and movement or STEM. The site also publishes content designed for anytime learning, such as instructional videos and blog posts that lead visitors through at-home art projects, science experiments, and story-time.

Visit Glazer Children’s Museum .

35. Children’s Museum Houston

The Children’s Museum Houston advertises an ongoing all-time access program. This program provides regular content such as 3-D digital field trips, virtual adventure camps, daily broadcasted project tutorials, webinar workshops, and video call-in shows. The museum also has a free smartphone app for additional at-home adventures.

Visit Children’s Museum Houston .

36. Children’s Museum Indianapolis

Children’s Museum Indianapolis provides a museum at home experience including ongoing virtual events, digital museum programs, follow-along hands-on activities, and virtual birthday parties. The museum also creates holiday-themed downloadable activity bundles and resources for teachers.

Visit Children’s Museum Indianapolis .

37. The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong museum in Rochester, NY, examines the history of playtime throughout recent history. Its online exhibits follow fun themes such as “Pinball in America”, “The History of Valentines”, and the Oregon Trail computer games. The online collection hosts a staggering 77,000+ images, many of which are designs for games throughout the decades.

Visit The Strong National Museum of Play .

38. Boston Children’s Museum

The Boston Children’s Museum website provides learning resources including weekly activitiy emails, Mad Libs, and links to mini digital museums and interactive apps. This section of the museum’s website has many tools to keep kids occupied for hours.

Visit Boston Children’s Museum .

List of online national park tours

Here is a list of national parks to visit online.

39. Joshua Tree

A virtual tour to Joshua Tree includes video, readable web content, photos and other multimedia. To captivate younger visitors, the park posts digital scavenger hunts, a junior ranger program, and guest speaker series. Educators can schedule virtual field trips with park rangers centered around topics such as plants and animals, rocks and minerals, and weather and erosion.

Visit Joshua Tree .

40. Zion National Park

An online visit to Zion National Park includes virtual hikes and shuttle tours, along with a free app that launches a historical exploration of the region. Web visitors explore the canyons in virtual reality from multiple vantage points, exploring the terrain from the comfort of the couch.

Visit Zion National Park .

41. Yosemite

Virtual Yosemite provides an aerial view of the park with zoomable scenic spots. The remote park tour also features a panoramic index for easy navigation to various locales within the preservation, but visitors can also click through and rotate the views to explore more organically. Virtual Yosemite presents high resolution images of a variety of landscapes, highlighting the geographical diversity of the land.

Visit Yosemite .

42. Bryce Canyon

While not an immersive experience, the Bryce Canyon virtual tour provides pictures and descriptions of locations along the trail so that virtual visitors can imagine hikes and plan future trips. The points of the online tour outline the landscape variety of the canyon, describing sights like Mossy Cave, Swamp Canyon, and Natural Bridge.

Visit Bryce Canyon .

43. Death Valley

This 360° online tour of California’s Death Valley National Park allows visitors to pan around the attraction’s various landscapes, from dunes to craters to canyons. Each spot contains a short description of the geography. The high resolution images create a virtual reality experience that immerses viewers in the environment.

Visit Death Valley .

44. Grand Canyon

This virtual tour of the Grand Canyon consists of 3D satellite images via Google Earth. Virtual visitors can rotate or click through trails, view the canyon from above, and navigate to photos of notable landmarks like Yavapai Point and The Abyss. High resolution pictures enable cyber sightseers to take in the views without the fear of falling.

Visit the Grand Canyon .

45. Redwood National Forest

Redwood National Forest facilitates virtual reality experiences via smartphone or computer, where online visitors take in 360° canopy tours for a panoramic view of the forest. The site also hosts multimedia presentations that include narrated videos, documentaries, songs, and other educational materials.

Visit Redwood National Forest .

46. Hot Springs National Park

Exploring Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park from home is possible thanks to a collection of photography, suggested readings, and an aerial digital map. The latter presents a birds eye view of the bath house district with clickable panoramic views inside the buildings. These resources enable virtual visitors to learn about the region’s rich cultural past and recent scientific research.

Visit Hot Springs National Park.

47. Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis provides a series of short pre-recorded videos exploring the history of the region and the exhibitions within the park, along with livestream webcam views from the top of the arch. The park website features historical analysis and photo galleries too, along with a virtual stamp for visitor’s National Park Passport books.

Visit the Gateway Arch.

48. Niagara Falls

This panoramic tour of Niagara Falls presents rotating 360° photos of park vistas such as the Cave of the Winds, Prospect Point, and the river rapids. A short description accompanies each photograph, outlining background information about the scenic spots.

Visit Niagara Falls .

49. Everglades National Park

The Everglades National Park provides a robust selection of virtual experiences. The options include a 24/7 live wildlife webcam, short documentaries and educational videos, audio narrated virtual tours, and an official digital photography collection. The park website offers a free curriculum for distance learning programs as well.

Visit the Everglades .

50. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

This online multimedia presentation guides virtual viewers through the islands and volcanoes of Hawaii. The experience includes audio, video, and panoramic photography of volcanic cliffs, caverns, and rainforests. Web visitors can also explore an active volcano by joining a digital helicopter flyover and watching an eruption from the 1950s.

Visit Hawai’i Volcanoes .

51. Table Mountain and Kruger National Park

South Africa has stunning national parks. Discover Africa enables visitors to explore the sights of South Africa via immersive video and interactive panoramic photography accompanied by narration. Virtual visitors choose from five attractions, including Cape Town’s Table Mountain and Northern South Africa’s epic Kruger nature preserve. The digital experience constitutes a virtual safari that lets viewers experience the country’s diverse landscapes.

Visit Table Mountain and Kruger National Park .

52. Mount Everest

This digital rendering allows website visitors to scale the peaks of Mount Everest from behind a screen. The website is a 3D geographic model of the mountain with clickable descriptions for key peaks. While many folks will never climb Everest in person, they can explore the range through this immersive cyber expedition.

Visit Mount Everest .

53. Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park

Phong Nha-Ke Bang in Vietnam contains one of the world’s largest caves alongside lush rainforests. Digital visitors trek through caves, viewing high resolution images and listening to realistic background sounds. The result is an immersive experience that simulates the sensation of navigating the caves in person.

Visit Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park .

54. Zhāngjiājiè National Forest Park

For much of the world, Zhāngjiājiè National Forest Park in China is more recognizable by sight than by name. The park’s steep, wooded cliffs appear in movies like Avatar, and the landscape looks more like a film set than a natural occurrence. Website visitors navigate between explorable panoramic views to the sounds of instrumental music for a simultaneously captivating and calming web experience.

Visit Zhāngjiājiè National Forest Park .

55. Namib Desert

This digital tour of the Namib Desert in Southern Africa gives viewers birds eye perspectives of dunes, parched plains, and rolling mist, plus vast starry skies. The high quality, panoramic images constitute virtual hikes through the vast landscape, without the scorching heat of day or the freezing chill of night.

Visit Namib Desert .

56. Banff National Park

A remote tour of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada consists of dozens of 360* videos showing scenes like snowy canyons, serene lakes at sunset, and mountainous trails. Though short, the videos enable you to pause and take in the scenery, and watching the playlist gives online visitors the benefit of viewing the park during multiple seasons.

Visit Banff National Park .

57. Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre is a coastal region of Italy renowned for its colorful hillside houses. In this experience, online visitors take a panoramic photo tour of the coastline at various angles and times of days, set to a backdrop of calming music. The site also includes educational descriptions and an additional photo gallery.

Visit Cinque Terre .

List of virtual zoo tours

Here is a list of virtual zoos and aquariums that enable up-close online animal encounters.

58. San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo streams live cams of animals including polar bears, tigers, penguins, baboons, and koalas, and as well as hosting highlight archive footage of past panda cams. For a fee, the zoo also offers virtual programs that enable private online encounters with animals. The website also hosts an online directory of zoo animals and plants so that virtual visitors can learn more about the zoo’s exhibits from home.

Visit the San Diego Zoo .

59. San Antonio Zoo

The San Antonio Zoo arranges online meetings between virtual visitors and animals like hippos, giraffes, and rhinos for $100. For an additional $50 fee, guests can add a question and answer session with a zookeeper. Experiences are available Tuesday through Saturday. The zoo also offers online educational workshops.

Visit the San Antonio Zoo .

60. Houston Zoo

The Houston Zoo website includes a variety of live webcams with stars such as rhinos, gorillas, flamingos, and elephants. Cameras are live between 7AM and 7PM CT. The zoo also advertises live virtual experiences including web conference meet and greets with animals and virtual scavenger hunts. Notable digital offerings include an animal painting experience where guests watch a creature create art and receive a copy in the mail afterwards, and a Cameo video greeting to send to a friend.

Visit the Houston Zoo .

61. Cincinnati Zoo

The Cincinnati Zoo offers a home safari consisting of videos recorded during Facebook Live streams. Website visitors can browse through over 50 animal encounters and learn facts about creatures like red pandas, parrots, zebras, and orangutans. Online modules also include activities such as homemade birdfeeders and balancing exercises so kids can participate more fully in the virtual experience.

Visit the Cincinnati Zoo .

62. Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo streams live between 10AM and 4PM ET, showing off visitor favorites such as sea lions and lemurs. The zoo also books out virtual wild encounters with creatures like cheetahs, alpacas, sloths, and warthogs, for prices ranging from $80 to $150. Each session takes place over Zoom and allows virtual visitors to get up close to animals while asking caretakers questions.

Visit the Bronx Zoo .

63. Alaska Zoo

The Alaska Zoo presents a distance learning experience through its virtual animal encounters and arctic discovery programs. Each session lasts approximately 45 minutes and costs $150. These experiences include interactive presentations and virtual visits with animals such as tigers, gray wolves, polar bears, or seals. A scheduled visit ensures the animals are unlikely to be camera-shy, creating a memorable and intimate online experience for students.

Visit the Alaska Zoo .

64. Singapore Zoo

The Singapore Zoo proposes a variety of e-learning options designed to enrich virtual classrooms. The website modules sort experiences by grade level, making it easy to choose an experience appropriate for your classroom. Students can explore topics such as zoology careers, reptile habitats, and African wildlife.

Visit the Singapore Zoo .

65. Oregon Zoo

The Oregon Zoo offers virtual encounters on platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and GoToMeeting. During these sessions, caregivers and animals such as armadillos, giraffes, elephants, sloths, and lemurs join virtual visitors for a 15 minute meet and greet. The two available daily time slots are at 10AM and 2PM PT.

Visit the Oregon Zoo .

66. Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium hosts ten live webcams featuring critters such as penguins, jellyfish, sharks, and sea otters. The variety of exhibits means that teachers can switch between streams when a particular camera is not live. The aquarium also facilitates narrated feeding times on certain webcams during weekdays, with the feeding schedule posted on the site.

Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium .

67. National Aquarium (Baltimore)

The National Aquarium in Baltimore offers an interactive virtual map folks can navigate for an online tour. Virtual visitors can follow the arrows for a walk-through experience, or can click a menu of creatures like dolphins and sharks to instantly view anticipated animals. The aquarium website also hosts three 24/7 webcam livestreams , and offers guided virtual programs too.

Visit the National Aquarium .

68. Georgia Virtual Aquarium

The Georgia Virtual Aquarium allows visitors to book a 10 to 20 minute guided online tour. Participants select a tour, receive viewing instructions via email, then enjoy up-close views of animals with educational insight. Participants get to view oceans, rivers, or sea creatures within an immersive virtual environment.

Visit Georgia Virtual Aquarium .

You may not be able to jet around the world at a moment’s notice. However, you can still visit famous parks, zoos, or museums by taking an engaging, interactive online virtual tour.

These online experiences enable you to stare as long as you like, avoid crowds, learn more about a subject or piece instantly, and enjoy other benefits. Not to mention, at home experiences are a great way to educate and teach children, coworkers, and yourself!

Next, check out our list of virtual family reunion activities and this one with online volunteering ideas .

FAQ: Virtual Tours

Here are some of the common questions we see about virtual tours of museums, zoos and parks.

What are virtual tours?

Virtual tours are online galleries of famous attractions such as zoos, national parks, and museums. These experiences often consist of online exhibitions, videos, 360 degree and satellite photography, and virtual reality elements. Some tours may also include a facilitated live experience with a guide.

What are the best virtual tours?

The best virtual tours tend to include an interactive element. For example, the tour could be a live experience led by a guide and include trivia, polls, or other forms of engagement. These online tours are the best because they focus on the visitor experience.

How much do virtual tours cost?

Virtual tours are available at a variety of costs, ranging from free to $5 per person, $50 per person and upwards. We recommend starting with some of the free tours to see what your group likes and benefits most from. Then, you can invest in one of the paid options.

How do virtual tours work?

Virtual tours take place on online platforms such as Zoom, Google Street View, or custom software. Users login solo or as a group, and follow along with either a live or automated guide to learn about the tour stops.

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Media Tour: What is a Virtual Media Tour Exactly? - article

A virtual media tour is like a traditional media tour, except you don’t generally have to get out of your pajamas. Virtual media tours include bloggers, radio stations, podcasters, and webcasters. Tours begin with research. You must find all the blogs, radio shows, podcasts and webcasts that connect with your content. These media outlets include the obvious ones, such as book reviewers and book bloggers. But don’t overlook the less obvious ones. What’s the topic or setting of your book? Who are the characters? Who’s the audience? What’s the message? What’s your genre? Now… which bloggers cover those things? Find the bloggers unique to these elements.

Once data has been collected, you will need to reach out to the virtual media web. Inform media contacts of the time frame for the virtual tour, and book spots just like in a traditional tour. Once spots are booked, prepare for interviews in traditional ways. Some spots will be very short (30 seconds). Others might range up to an hour. Preparation should be extensive. (NOTE: review some other great articles here on the Author Learning Center. We have several about preparing for interviews)

Once you have booked a tour, and while you are preparing for it, it’s time to create a personalized tour page on your personal blog. Here is where you will post the tour schedule, book cover, and a way to order your book. Advertise on your tour page by creating a banner that will be posted on your website and Facebook. Fire up your network and get a folks out on the social networks to share the news of your tour.

You can drum up participation in your tours in other ways. You might host a game on your blog and reveal clues at each interview. Or you might give an obvious prize, such as a free book. You could also sweeten the pot by offering a Kindle with a book copy on it. Another idea is to have a treasure hunt that involves geocaching and tour participation. A piece of advice: don’t give away big prizes unless you know the tool will do the job that you want it to. If you are only going to stir up your mom and her book club, just give the book.

Finally, you must ride the wave of the whirlwind tour. It’s possible to book many spots on a virtual tour. An organized author could land 50 spots in a week. Finally, when the tour is completed, thank-you notes must go to all participants signed by you. Remember: leaving a good vibe in everyone’s mind is all about laying a foundation for the next tour.

That’s a virtual media tour in a nutshell. Perhaps you should give it a try.

NOTE: If you want other great information on tours (the non-virtual type), review other great articles here on the Author Learning Center, including “Media Tours: An Overview for Newbies”, “How do you organize a traditional media blitz in your hometown?”, and “Media Tour: What is a traditional media tour exactly?”.

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We are an award-winning Real Estate Photography company in North East Ohio that offers professional real estate photography and virtual tours . Our full team is here to help you promote the beauty of your listing. Our dispatch team can make sure your listing is scheduled to be shot in a timely manner, you can expect our photographers to be on time and professional, and we ensure to prioritize your work so you can get your listing up as soon as possible. 

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Real estate listings photos are the core of every great property listing. These photos are the bread and butter that showcase the property and all its features. Utilizing wide angle and architectural style photography shows the space as well as the unique characteristics and features of the property. Our listing photos come professionally edited, color corrected, and include sky replacement on all exterior shots (sky replacement on interior shots where applicable) and a virtual twilight shot to set your listing apart from the crowd. Numerous realtors and brokers have trusted Captivly Real Estate Photography to capture professional photos of their listings.

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If you are looking to sell your listings faster- statistically, real estate virtual tours are your best bet. At Captivly we have multiple virtual tour options to fit every budget and project size. From Zillow 3D tours to iGuide virtual tours to specialized commercial real estate virtual tours, we have the capabilities to capture your property in 3D and allow prospective buyers the capability to tour at their own pace.

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At Captivly, we have a comprehensive suite of commercial real estate media services tailored to meet the unique demands of the corporate and commercial real estate market. We understand that every property tells a story, and we’re here to help you tell it with impact. From captivating listing photos that highlight the finest details, breathtaking aerial shots captured by our licensed drone operators, immersive video tours that breathe life into your spaces, to engaging virtual tours that allow potential tenants or buyers to explore properties from the comfort of their screens, and precise floor plans that offer a comprehensive spatial overview – our services are designed to meet the diverse and dynamic needs of the commercial real estate industry. We know that no two commercial jobs are the same. For this reason our commercial real estate photography projects are all custom to meet your specific needs.

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Zillow 3D home and floor plans are a great addition to your listing. This tour provides viewers with an immersive 3D experience, floor plans, and photos (hot spotted to the floor plans). Zillow 3D home tours also come with a suit of added benefits on the Zillow platform, including premium placement on search results on Zillow; special email pushes to home shoppers prompting them to view the listing, a red tour badge to help them stand out on the map and the ability for home buyers to filter listings with the Zillow 3D home tours.

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Discover the future of real estate marketing with our iGuide Virtual Tours . These immersive tours provide everything a buyer needs to make informed decisions. From precise LiDAR floor plans, room dimensions, and measuring tools to total square footage, iGuide offers unparalleled accuracy. Our tours seamlessly integrate high-quality photos, a Google map of the property’s location, and video embedding capabilities, making it easy to showcase a property’s unique story. Interactive information spots offer details on features and amenities as viewers explore. Plus, built-in analytics provide valuable insights into tour traffic, helping you refine your marketing strategy.

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VIRTUAL SATELLITE MEDIA TOURS AND HOW THEY WORK

With changing safety regulations and our effort to #stopthespread, the development of  virtual satellite media tours  (VSMTs) have been instrumental in delivering clients’ stories to the media.  Satellite Media Tours  have always been a staple in the media relations business, but the virtual aspect of the Virtual Satellite Media Tour has made a huge impact in broadcasting during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to  Atomik Research , our in-house research division, more than half (56%) of Americans say they are watching more local TV news, highlighting the importance of VSMTs.

HOW DOES A VIRTUAL SATELLITE MEDIA TOUR WORK?

A few days before the tour, a Zoom link is provided to you and the stations that scheduled interviews. This ensures that stations have the link prepared and that the spokesperson can rehearse the virtual tour. Our team can then evaluate the spokesperson’s setup, making sure the lighting is good, the internet speed is sufficient, and the audio is high quality.

On the day of the tour, you and the spokesperson each can join the Zoom link that was provided for the rehearsal. A new room is established, guided by the engineer’s instruction, followed by a final check of the spokesperson’s  background, lighting, audio , and strength of the signal. Once the tour begins, our producer informs the spokesperson which outlet and reporter they are speaking with next, the length of the interview, and whether it is for tv or radio. In between interviews, you can unmute yourself and give feedback to the spokesperson.

Some  best practices for Virtual Satellite Media Tours  include:

• Conduct the interviews in a quiet room that is well-lit and has balanced lighting, ideally with a background similar to a traditional SMT studio, such as a library, office or kitchen, depending on the topic
• Use a laptop or tablet with a camera, preferably with a camera at the top of the laptop, not at the bottom
• Ensure a strong internet signal, with a minimum internet upload speed of 3MG, although 5MG is preferred
• Use earbuds for outbound and inbound audio

Taking into consideration the newsworthiness of your organization’s message, the ease and frequency of using Zoom, and the safety recommendations in place, VSMTs are an ideal solution to ensure your story still gets the attention it deserves.

Innovation and creativity  in our industry has never been more crucial, for clients as well as ourselves.  If you have a story to tell and you would like to learn more about our Fully Virtual Satellite Media Tour, please don’t hesitate to  contact us .

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Virtual Media Tour

Virtual Media Tours are here to stay. VMTs use Skype or Zoom to connect a spokesperson to media around the world. Here are some key learnings and tips for a successful Virtual Media Tour.

When the world changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw an extraordinary shift in our broadcast public relations industry, and quickly learned that PR had a whole new meaning: Pivot Rapidly. Within days of the shutdown in March 2020, many clients postponed and/or canceled long-planned Satellite Media Tours (SMT) and Customized Media Days (CMD) in rapid succession. We had to quickly digest that information and its impact on our company, and figure out a new way forward. At the same time, we had an equal number of media outlets reach out desperate for quality content. News producers and reporters were, many for the first time, working from home and needed stories with unique perspectives surrounding the pandemic AND many needed to be able to conduct and record the segments from home. There was still a need, and we quickly developed a new tactic: Virtual Media Tours.

Within two days of taking our company remote and several days before mandatory stay-at-home orders, we developed, tested and started marketing our Virtual Media Tours (VMT.) VMTs work much like SMTs with back-to-back interviews. We handle all the bookings, technical elements and follow-up/reporting. The key difference is interviews are conducted using a mixture of Skype, Zoom and satellite with a spokesperson at home. The spokesperson simply connects with our studio using Skype and we do the rest. Our clients watch everything via a virtual green room livestream so they can provide real-time feedback to the spokesperson.

Producing interviews via Skype and Zoom isn’t a new concept – we typically have a few on each media tour. But producing a full morning of 20-25+ interviews back-to-back in rapid succession with crew and clients spread out over five or more states has quickly become a game-changer for not only our company but for clients and media contacts.

If you are considering a VMT, here are three tips to keep in mind:

• Be flexible with timing. Rather than limit your VMT to a 4-5 hour time frame, make your spokesperson available throughout the day (or across several days) to accommodate various media outlets.
• Do several tech tests with your spokesperson to ensure proper internet speed and to work out an optimal background, best lighting and make sure the picture and audio are clean.
• Now, more than ever, provide solid ‘news you can use.’ In addition to stories about online shopping/scams, protecting your money and medical-related topics, we continue to see lifestyle tours about home schooling, entertaining kids, unique recipes, etc. work very well.

While we may soon be able to travel and head back to our offices, we don’t anticipate everything going back to the pre-Covid-19 days. And while we hope to get back to our professional videography, hair and make-up artists and beautiful locations, the ease and convenience of conducting interviews quickly from any location is likely going to be an ongoing part of our PR lives moving forward. We are thrilled to have been among the first to offer this new tactic and would love to help you with your broadcast communications. Please let us know if you have a potential tour you want to discuss. Brainstorming is always free and we are ready when you are!

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In the Summer of 2021, Visiting Media was looking for a virtual content project to show off some of their properties. Not just any virtual content project, but something that would make Visiting Media stand out from competition for years to come. After talking with their marketing team, we were able to schedule a virtual tour within a week of negotiating!

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Visiting Media now has all the content they need to start attracting inbound leads instead of having to do constant outbound work . What we did is incorporate SEO into their website as well to ensure that they start setting themselves up for success in the long run.

All in all, it was an absolute pleasure to work with Visiting Media on this amazing project, I can’t wait until we shoot more wonderful properties just like this ! Check out our Visiting Media virtual tour today!

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