Travel from Home with Hop A Tour’s LIVE Virtual Tours
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That’s right! Head out on an exciting journey while staying home with the creative itineraries of Hop A Tour. Our live virtual tours take you from Paris to Saint Petersburg and Como to Columbia without you ever needing you to set foot out of bed.
We all hope to recover soon from the chaos that has been the year 2020. In the tumult of lockdowns, halted flights, closed borders, and canceled vacations, virtual tourism has progressed to a new level, bringing a glimmer of hope and a reprieve from the isolation of social distancing. You can now walk piazzas in Verona, gape at the Kazan Cathedral in Russia, and admire street art in Bogota from the comfort of your living room.
So, how does it work? Hint: It’s more than just a 360° virtual tour.
The 360 tours are exciting, but they do not offer the experience and feel of being outdoors. Give them ten minutes, and they get boring. At Hop A Tour, we pondered how to make virtual travel more interactive and imitative of the real travel experience. That’s when we came up with our version of immersive Live Virtual Tours.
These tours do not need you to keep clicking or sliding the cursor from one way to another. They do not include blurred images or pre-recorded videos. These are live and guided virtual tours. It means you will digitally join a verified and professional local guide who is live-streaming to you. He or she will take you out on location, walk you through tourist sites, and provide an interactive virtual tour where you can ask questions.
Since these are real-time tours, no two journeys are the same. There are no mugged-up pitches and no monotonous historical speeches. You get a friendly guide who knows the area intimately; someone who will reveal the hidden details to you that only a passionate insider would know. You are bound to get surprised with oh-it-was-right-in-front-of-me kind of revelations.
The best part is that you do not need to keep your camera or your microphone on. There will be an on-screen chat box that allows you to communicate with the guide. Click on the hand icon to turn the typing box green, type your message, and send it. Pressing the hand icon is like nudging the guide; it sends him/her a notification so they can reply to you immediately. There is also a press-to-talk option if you'd like to speak.
Interaction is not all. You get to meet other globetrotters.
Many travelers love how they meet new people when cruising the world. They have fun making new friends. But with 360 tours or pre-recorded videos and presentations, one never gets the opportunity. Hop A Tour changes that for you.
Ours are exclusive tours that happen in small groups. This is a first! No other virtual tour provider offers this digital social experience. Only a limited number of people can join a tour so that everyone gets full attention.
These interactive virtual tours create a friendly space online where you meet other virtual tourists. You get a chance to make friends and have conversations with other explorers on-board. All you need to do is skip clicking the hand icon that sends the notification to the guide and send your message addressing the fellow traveler.
There will always be a moderator to see that no message goes unread.
Live virtual tours are interactive and social, alright, but what else?
These virtual tours are live where your guide walks you through famous and hidden tourist spots of the location. The idea feels all fun and exciting - but what about the streaming quality? Fortunately, Hop A Tour takes care of it.
We use avant-garde technology to ensure the video streams in Full-HD quality only. This view brings the location to life. And, just as in real-life, in the event of a rare mishap where the connection fluctuates, the moderator will be present to let the guide know and resolve the matter in just moments.
We are determined to provide only the best virtual travel experience to our world wanderers.
Customized private virtual tours are available on-demand.
Hop A Tour offers private and customized virtual tours. We curate itineraries for families, communities, and corporate events on demand. Our guides speak multiple languages, including English, Russian, French, and many others.
Easy to book at your own time and participate in virtual tourism.
Perhaps, the biggest perk of traveling virtually is that you do not have to budget your time and money to wait for a train, a bus, or a flight. You can browse our tours and their timings, select the most convenient one, and book it. No software download is needed, and you can watch on any device. We will send you a reminder over email or to your mobile phone before the tour starts.
With so many perks, our virtual tours become a unique experience you look forward to enjoying time and again.
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