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Ideas, guides and stories about live virtual tours: virtual field trips for classrooms, team building, holiday tours and the places our local guides stream from.
- Voice Of America Feature - Virtual Tourism: Going Places from the Comfort of Home (August 12, 2021) - Can you really have a travel experience without leaving home? Would-be explorers looking for options that provide the excitement and discovery of visiting new places have turned to live-stream tours to satisfy their wanderlust and connect with guides
- Tokyo Top 10 Sites: 3-Day Itinerary From Top-Rated Guide, Eriko Shiratori (July 7, 2021) - As travel slowly opens up post-pandemic, we've asked our guides what are the must-see places to visit in their destination. Eriko Shiratori tells us which attractions she recommends for a three-day Tokyo itinerary, with a few extra highlights she just
- Bringing Live Virtual Travel to Stanford’s CME Live 2021 (June 15, 2021) - Livestream tours are an excellent immersive tool to enhance your continuing education program and experiential education for the classroom. Hop A Tour’s interactive live-stream virtual tours provide enriching education by exploring new
- Virtual Travel For Youth Groups And The Classroom (May 11, 2021) - Reserve Your Private Livestream Tour Today - Discounts Available For Educational Institutes and Non-Profits! Whether it's a pandemic year or not, the best educators and youth leaders are always looking for innovative ways to add engaging educational
- Hop A Tour, Ltd. Finalist At Aceler@Tech: The Most Innovative Startups In The Tourism Industry (May 9, 2021) - In the start-up accelerator competition, Aceler@Tech: The Most Innovative Startups In The Tourism Industry, Hop A Tour, Ltd. has been selected as a finalist! Why? Our full-HD live-stream tours bridge the distance and bring you
- LA Times Valentine's Day Feature: Take A Live Virtual Tour Of Romeo & Juliet’s Verona (February 14, 2021) - Rachel Schnalzer of the Los Angeles Times provides solid recommendations of how to create a little romance for Valentine's Day in a world fragmented by the pandemic. Whether you're independent, or your sweetheart is in another city or the same location as
- International Association for Tourism Economics Features Hop A Tour (January 31, 2021) - Professor Aliza Fleischer of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and contributor to the International Association for Tourism Economics features Hop A Tour in the latest IATE publication as an example of tourism start-ups that create economic benefits to
- Gustav Klimt's Mother & Child, And Our Lady Of Kazan (January 8, 2021) - You see it too, right? I had never heard of Our Lady of Kazan. Or for that matter, the Kazan Cathedral, which has a nice ring to it. I didn't know how to pronounce this correctly either and looking at it on paper, it felt very close to a superhero
- Tokyo and Jerusalem's Temple Rituals - More In Common Than You Might Expect (January 8, 2021) - Before I went on Eriko Shiratori's tour of Sensoji Temple and the Asakusa District in Tokyo, I didn't really know what to expect. I hadn't googled any of the highlights, and the extent of my understanding of Japanese culture was mainly based on anime,
- Italy's Espresso Experience - Enjoy Like A Local (January 5, 2021) - Italy. The land of la dolce vita, historic sites, and Francesco Totti. And, of course, coffee - or caffè. There are not many countries in the world that do coffee quite like the Italians, and this is a real treat for visitors. You see, coffee is a
- Venice's Other Bridge - A Story of Plague and Redemption (November 20, 2020) - By Nataliya Dmytruk, Certified Tour Guide, Italy, and Expert Tourist Guide of Venice. Join Nataliya on livestream virtual tours of Venice. The church, with its balloon-like dome, dominates Venice's lagoon scene more than the other famous
- Buon Appetito: Specialty Food to Try in Italy (and at Home!) (November 20, 2020) - From the beginning, Italy has had a rich food culture. One of the things that draws people to visit Italy is the magnitude of delicious and iconic dishes that people want to experience - la dolce vita! Whether you’re a pizza connoisseur or
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