Marlborough is first town to have interactive virtual tour
Marlborough will be the first town in the UK to offer visitors an interactive virtual tour via their computers.
Web users will not only be able to see pictures of the town, but with a click of their mouse they will be able to enter public buildings and business premises and even pick items from shop shelves.
The interactive virtual tours for market towns are the brainchild of Duncan Curtis, director of Vue UK Limited.
Having spent five years in Canada working with the software, which was designed primarily for estate agents, Duncan returned to England to promote the idea of virtual tours to market towns.
The software allows shopkeepers to show their wares online, and business owners to tout their services.
Businesses that subscribe to be part of the tour are flagged, and the visitor can walk into business premises and even look at specific offers on shelves – for instance a wine of the week at an off licence.
Subscribing to the service costs businesses just £29 for photography, plus £20 per month hosting.
Marlborough Chamber of Commerce president Peter Davison said: “This is an excellent promotional tool for Marlborough, and for individual businesses, and we’re very excited to be at the vanguard of this new technological innovation.”
The virtual tour will hosted at www.welovemarlborough.co.uk and www.marlboroughlive.co.uk from mid-November.
To include your business on the virtual tour call Duncan Curtis on 0789 116 1176 or email estatevue@yahoo.co.uk
