Virtual Tours, 360° Photos and 360° Video offer unique, innovative and interactive ways of marketing. Local, Regional and City Councils are increasingly using these technologies to more effectively showcase the locations, facilities and events that they provide to residents and visitors.
The Tabs below provide examples of different Virtual Tour projects used by Councils in
Many Local Councils have Community Halls, buildings or community spaces that are available for hire by local residents, for a variety of community and private activities – from hobby or charity based activities through to birthday parties and wedding receptions.
It takes a significant amount of resources to manage these spaces, often with quite a lot of time and expense involved with marketing and managing bookings – particularly when potential hirers wish to “inspect” the spaces prior to bookings.
A Virtual Tour is a fantastic way to showcase the capabilities of a particular venue and specific spaces within each venue – and can save significant time, effort and costs associated with visual inspections prior to booking.
Community Hall Virtual Tours can be published direct to Google (as a Google StreetView Virtual Tour)and then embedded into the booking page/s on your website – or sent to potential hirers by email as a link.
More sophisticated Standalone Virtual Tours which offer many more features and capabilities, could also be used for a more sophisticated approach to marketing and booking your local community spaces.
Parks, Playgrounds, and Sporting Fields are significant assets for Local Councils… and provide fantastic amenity for local residents and visitors, but incur significant maintenance and management costs – and are often under-utilised.
One of the main issues with the use of community spaces likes parks is promoting what services and facilities are actually available. Residents who live in the immediate vicinity are often aware and make use of these spaces, but those living in the wider community and visitors to the area are often oblivious to the great facilities that are often available.
Google Virtual Tours can be created and are accessible direct from Google Maps…(or can be embedded into a local council website), and Standalone Virtual Tours offer a range of more sophisticated features such as Branding/Menu Navigation/Popup Information Hotspots and External Links.
See Full Screen View Here : bccparks.panoview.com.au
360° photos (particularly aerial 360°photos) are very effective at showing off parks and playgrounds and where they are located in relation to the neighbourhood and other community facilities.
Whether it is a one-off Special Occasion, an Annual Event, or a recurring local activity, Virtual Tours can provide a unique and innovative way to promote Special Events.
By providing potential visitors with an insight into what is on offer, a virtual tour can not only make the event accessible to a much wider audience, but encourage more people to attend physically.
Because of the unique nature of special events, a Standalone Virtual Tour is probably the best option, because they provide greater control and flexibility.
See Full Screen View Here : curiocity.panoview.com.au
As well as offering facilities and services for local residents, attracting visitors (as well as new businesses and residents) is a key role of any council.
Promoting tourism to the various local attractions is therefore a VERY important function of councils.
Virtual Tours are a fantastic way to showcase the various attractions and facilities a region has to offer to tourists and visitors as well as local residents.
See Full Screen View Here : esplanade.panoview.com.au
See Full Screen View Here : naturalbridge.panoview.com.au
Using a Virtual Tour to showcase a particular Suburb, Region or Area, provides an interactive visual tool, which gives great spatial awareness (so users can see which activities/facilities are where in relation to locations they may be familiar with) but also, (because they are “in control” of the experience) forms a much higher emotional attachment than is possible with traditional marketing tools such as photos or videos.
See Full Screen View Here : carinaheights.panoview.com.au
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If you’d like to find out more about how Virtual Tours and 360° Photos and Video could be used to promote events, facilities, and services within your local council area, please give Andy a call on 0403 023 223 … or Contact Us.