| VRteam, an industry leader in producing 360-degree | | | | Rich media distribution accomplishes alot, as it is a |
| virtual tours, photo slide shows, and digital still photos | | | | powerful tool with broad reach, allows for centralized |
| for the lodging industry, has recently added rich | | | | management of digital assets across multiple online |
| media distribution to its professional service offerings. | | | | channels, and keeps all of the visual content |
| This new service allows a hotel to distribute their | | | | consistent across all of 3rd party websites. |
| virtual tours and rich media to over 30,000 travel | | | | |
| websites, including popular travel booking websites, | | | | Some of the websites included in VRteam's rich |
| travel agencies, travel research websites, search | | | | media distribution network are Expedia.com, |
| engines, travel portals, corporate booking engines, | | | | Priceline.com, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Away.com, |
| meeting planner websites, and global distribution | | | | Travelocity, AARP.org, Bookit.com, Zuji, |
| systems. The distribution system maximizes the | | | | Cheaptickets.com, Hotwire.com, Lastminute.com, |
| online exposure of a property, giving potential lodging | | | | Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Yahoo! Travel, |
| guests around the world an inside look at where they | | | | Superpages.com, AOL Travel, About.com, wCities, |
| will stay before they actually book reservations. | | | | TripAdvisor, 10Best, Starcite, SiteVisit, GroupAbout, |
| Hotel sales & marketing managers know how | | | | M.P.I., BusinessMeetings.com, Groople, P.C.M.A., |
| important it is to get this media in front of people | | | | HotelPlanner, Concur, Expedia Corporate Travel, Get |
| when they are actually making their travel plans. In | | | | There, Meeting Matrix, TeamAmerica Inc., Cvent, |
| support of this common knowledge, according to a | | | | Hotelbook, Site59, YouTube, Metacafe, Google |
| recent study, consumers who view rich media on a | | | | Video, Yahoo! Video, Revver, AOL Video, DailyMotion |
| property's website are 67% more likely to book than | | | | and thousands more. |
| similar consumers who did not view the rich media. | | | | |