More than just the Highlights
If a Right Click Productions Video Postcard is the 21st century upgrade to the traditional postcard, then a Right Click Productions Virtual Vacation is the 21st century upgrade to the traditional guide book.
Where a Video Postcard presents the highlights of a tourist destination and offers a starting point for further investigation by means of web links, a Virtual Vacation will already contain considerably more local information, possibly even including many different Virtual Tours covering all of the key attractions.
Just as traditional guide books contain considerably more information about a destination than a traditional postcard, including more photographs, historical facts, quotes and trivia, so too does a Virtual Vacation. However, a Virtual Vacation is not limited by the printed page. Publishers of guide books have recognised the limits of the printed page by regularly including web addresses for their readers to obtain further information. Our Virtual Vacations can bring all of this to life by embedding clickable links to these web sites and even including live information from some web sites directly within the pages of our Virtual Vacation "book". This means that a Virtual Vacation will not become outdated so quickly and can even appear to update itself with current news and other information, (e.g. opening times, prices, contact details, weather and even traffic conditions).
Anything that can be included in a guide book, (and a whole lot more), can be included in a Virtual Vacation. Imagine the difference it would make if instead of reading a quote or even an interview with a local resident who witnessed an historic event, the "reader" were able to watch and listen to them. The quote or interview could still be included in text form and be made printable, but could never equal the experience gained by watching the video.
The benefits of including interviews with local people cannot be stressed enough. This is a way in which the viewer of the Virtual Vacation can get to meet and know the local people in a way that would never be possible in the traditional printed book.
The Best Start
Our Virtual Vacations are without doubt the best starting point for anyone interested in finding out more information about a destination. In addition to the wealth of information included on the discs, an enormous online resource can be kept up to date and seamlessly linked to from the discs.
Just Keeps Getting Better
In it's simplest form, this could be an up to date (and growing) list of links to web sites offering further information. A more advanced form would enable additional content (or "pages" and "chapters" to use traditional book terms), to be created and incorporated at a later date.
This offers incredible value for money to anyone who buys the Virtual Vacation and is an extremely powerful tool for use by whoever commisions the Virtual Tour. Local businesses could keep their information current and even post their latest offers, etc. This can operate by selling advertising space within the Virtual Vacation, similar to the way TV advertising works and can be another source of revenue.
