Creating GPS Tour Guides using GeoTour Premier
In cyberspace and down at street-level, GeoTours are the latest and greatest way to market your destination. Visitors to web sites employing GeoTour Premier 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 GeoTour Premier, "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 a scenic rural drive in Kansas, 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…
GPS tours on Geovative.com have been viewed over 1 million times in the last three years, accelerating at a rate of thousands per month. More significantly, the numbers of tours downloaded are increasing by an even greater amount. "In GeoTour Premier, we have created a robust platform that empowers destinations to market themselves through adding GeoTours to their websites and thereby enabling travelers to download these GPS tours directly to their mobile devices. Interest in GPS tourism is increasing dramatically and we’re fully prepared for continued growth,” reports Lane Roney, CEO at Geovative Solutions (geovative.com), the exclusive provider of GeoTour services..
Aside from increased popularity of the Geovative.com web site, reasons for the increased number of downloads include: 1) More, higher-quality GeoTours are published by marketing organizations, and 2) As car navigation systems and smartphones have become more common, more people are transferring tours to their dash-top devices and mobile phones.
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 capitalize 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.
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