GeoTours

In cyberspace and down at street-level, GeoTours are the latest and greatest way to market your destination. Visitors to web sites employing GeoTours Premium Services can view virtual tours using interactive, multi-media maps, then download the tour to car navigation systems and experience the real places with GPS-guidance, audio narrative and visual images. For any size Destination Marking Organization (DMO), GeoTours are the most cost effective ways to orient visitors - from near and far, all day, everyday.

Especially for tourism and relocation,

With GeoTours Premium Service, "widgets" can be placed on any web page where visitors are looking for destination information. An interactive map helps visitors locate places of interest, see pictures of those places and hear descriptive narrative. The map and media content are fully customizable. Here is an example GeoTour widget of Greenville, South Carolina USA:

By clicking on the widget's [Download As...] button, visitors can transfer this tour to portable GPS navigation devices. So, with GeoTours, visitors will be more familiar with their destination before they arrive, they will know exactly where to go, and how to get there. And with GeoTours, chances are better that visitors will have the desired experience, much better than if they had no guidance at all.

A Growing Trend…

Windows Mobile GPS navigation Since inception in July 2007 to March 2008, GPS tours on Geovative.com have been viewed over 150,000 times, accelerating at a rate of 1,000's per month. More significantly, the numbers of tours downloaded are increasing by an even greater amount. "In GeoTours Premium, we have created a robust platform that allows destinations to market themselves through adding GPS tours to their site and allowing users to download them directly to their devices. Interest in GPS tourism has increased dramatically in the past few months and we have taken all steps necessary to handle a larger number of GPS tours without a degradation in service", reports Scott Rock, Chief Technology Officer at Geovative Solutions (geovative.com) the exclusive provider of GeoTours services.

Aside from increased popularity of the Geovative.com web site, reasons for the increased number of downloads include: 1) more, high-quality GeoTours are published by marketing organizations, and 2) as car navigation systems have become more common, more people are transferring tours to their dash-top devices and cell phones. Indeed, GPS navigation was one of the most popular Christmas gifts of this past year and now people are finding out what they can do with them.

What is your Genre?

"We started with a simple downtown GeoTour," says John Wild, President of Auburn-Opelika Tourism Bureau, "and now are developing a more extensive concierge tour, an Auburn University campus tour and one for our Christmas Victorian Front Porch home tour." Wild has already seen the trend for 'on line, 24/7 Visitors' and anticipates they will use GeoTours to help alleviate some of the staff work load during their busy time periods.

Geo- Adventure Tours!

Helping make tourism more of an adventure, GeoTours capitalizes on enthusiasm for GPS-related activities like Geocaching. But unlike games focused on isolated locations, GeoTours provide a more complete travel experience, no 3rd-party web site is involved, and visitors do not feel obligated to play by the rules of a game. Typical GeoTours include points of interest with narratives describing each location's significance. Since patronage at these attractions is welcome, the impact is desirable. And the adventure for visitors is finding out what's ahead.

Deliver your Message in any Language

With an increasing number of foreign visitors, DMOs are faced with getting their message through the language barrier. GeoTours can help. In concert with language translation resources, GeoTours can be developed with descriptive narratives spoken in any language.