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Top Website Tour Examples To Learn From In 2023

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If you’re creating a user onboarding flow for your SaaS company, you’ll want to look at website tour examples from other businesses before you start.

We can learn from their mistakes, as well as follow the best practices they’ve established for teaching customers how to use their product. Having helped thousands of SaaS teams with onboarding, we can assure you that other web apps have faced the same challenges that you have.

Let’s get right into it.

• SaaS businesses use website tours as a way of showing new users how their products work.
• Website tours are valuable because they make users activate faster and more consistently, leading to a higher rate of retention in the long-term.
• A typical website tour is built out of modals , tooltips , hotspots and driven actions.
• To maximize the odds of your website tour being a success, ensure that you segment your user s and keep your tour as interactive and personalized as possible.
• Don’t code your product tour from scratch . Use Userpilot instead. Get a free demo today!

What is a website tour?

In many cases, website tours are interactive, requiring the user to actively engage with your product. That’s because learning by doing is a more effective means of user education than merely passively reading tooltips.

When users visit your app for the first time, it’s unwise to simply leave them to their own devices and let them figure out your product in their own way.

Ultimately, the risk of churn for SaaS companies is just too high to do something like this. We’re talking about an industry where Day One churn rates often exceed 70% or 80%!

Many businesses solve this problem by giving users a product tour that highlights their web app’s key features.

What constitutes “key features” is subjective, depending entirely on what a particular user group finds valuable.

So a CEO will likely have a very different set of product needs than an intern at the bottom of the hierarchy, for example.

I’ve seen plenty of businesses attempt new user onboarding with passive tours as well, but I don’t advise it.

Types of UI patterns used in product tours

Most product tours are built out of the following elements:

• Tooltips : brief text snippets that walk users through one individual product feature
• Modals : larger, rectangular elements that grab users’ attention with striking graphics
• Hotspots: small circles that flash softly to illuminate one particular part of the UI
• Driven actions: focus the user’s attention on a specific action such as a click or an input

Userpilot will let you build all of these UI patterns from simple templates, without facing the hassle of having to code. Get a free demo today!

Other patterns include:

• Lightboxes: similar to modals , but smaller and less disruptive to the user’s sense of flow
• Banners: long, thin, rectangular elements displaying an important message, often at the top or bottom of the screen.
• Sliders: similar to banners, but they slide in from the sides of the screen

So you now know what a website tour consists of, but why should your business care about creating one, when there are so many other things you could be spending your time on?

Why use product tours in your user onboarding process?

Put simply, serving your new users with a high-quality product tour is positively correlated with all the most important SaaS metrics .

For example:

Website tours reduce Time to Value

It’s in the commercial interests of all SaaS businesses to ensure that their customers experience value from their products as soon as possible.

Partly, this is due to the high-dopamine, low attention span world that we live in.

But it’s also about fulfilling the promises you make to your users. If they’ve come to your app to experience a particular benefit, they’re likely to churn if they don’t receive what they were looking for.

So imagine if you signed up for a new product and were greeted with an empty state like this:

Not exactly very motivating, is it?

By contrast, social media scheduling tool Kontentino greets new customers to their app in a friendly, engaging way:

And they follow this welcome screen with two tooltips that guide users towards connecting their social media account and scheduling their first post:

Out of these two examples, I can assure you that Kontentino’s customers will be the ones more likely to stick around and experience value .

Customers that experience a website tour are more likely to activate

Arguably the most important milestone in any new user onboarding journey, activation is the moment when a customer personally experiences the value of your product for the first time.

A typical product tour is designed to highlight the features that are most important to each particular user segment.

Generally, this is achieved by giving the user a checklist of tasks to work through, like this:

By the time the customer has worked through the checklist, activation is almost certain.

That’s because you can use onboarding software like Userpilot to define a custom event that equates to activation on your app, and then guide users towards it with modals , tooltips and hotspots.

If you want to create custom events for your app that will help your customers to activate, get a Userpilot demo today!

User onboarding product tours drive more user retention

Imagine you’re a new user who’s using a web app for the first time and you’re overwhelmed at the amount of value you receive.

You had signed up to find a way to organize your team’s work projects more effectively, and the product tour you experience shows you multiple ways of doing just that.

You experience the core value of the product through engaging with different features.

Do you leave and check out competing products?

Of course not!

Since it’s given you exactly what you wanted and the website tour made it so easy to use, there’s a good chance you’ll stay with this app for a long time.

From the perspective of the SaaS business who made this app, this translates into a high retention rate and multiple recurring subscription payments.

Now that I’ve got your attention…

Top tips for effective website tours

Every product tour is different, but there are some best practices that can be applied to just about any SaaS business, regardless of niche.

Don’t code your product walkthroughs from scratch

If this is your first SaaS product, it might be tempting to think that you can easily create a bootstrap tour on your own.

Think again.

The simplest UI element used in almost every product tour is a tooltip . Here’s how much code you need to make one:

Now imagine that multiplied by the number of UI elements in your entire product tour.

But that’s not all!

Your developers will also need to edit your tooltips every time your product marketers want to run a product experiment , perhaps to change the tooltip’s color or shape to see if that affects performance.

Maybe you have investors with deep pockets, but given how expensive developers are and how little time they normally have, that sounds like a risky strategy to me.

A better strategy is to use code-free user onboarding software like Userpilot. That way, your product marketers can build product tours to their hearts’ content, without having to bother your devs.

But don’t take my word for it. Get a Userpilot demo today to see how it works!

Ensure your website tour is interactive

Do you remember that boring old professor at college that used to lecture you back in the day?

I’m prepared to bet that he lectured students 30 years ago in exactly the same way. Right?

The worst thing you can do is to create a product tour like that . I’m talking about a website tour that

• goes through the same product features
• in the same order
• to every single customer, regardless of use case
• in a dry, non-interactive way

This is called a linear product tour. And users consistently hate them !

This is why Pendo’s tooltip-based product tours don’t work, by the way. They’re just too linear and repetitive.

A better approach is to create an interactive walkthrough, like Kommunicate did here:

To the user, this feels more like a two-way dialogue than a boring lecture.

The product tour asks them to try out one of the core features , the user does so at their own pace, and then they get served with another interactive task that’s directly linked to their particular use case.

All the while, the website tour has tooltips and modals guiding users towards the features that they need.

Don’t forget to segment your users and personalize your website tours

As we mentioned earlier, what your customers find valuable about your product tour is subjective.

It will depend entirely on their particular use case. For example, if your product is an SEO tool:

• Senior management will look at the bigger picture of their business
• SEO managers will be interested in higher-level analytics to see how their team is performing
• Link builders will generally only care about specific metrics such as domain authority and domain reputation

So it would be foolish to serve the same website tour to each of these user segments.

The solution?

Segment your users, and deliver an individualised product tour to each segment .

A great place to segment is on the welcome screen . You can ask your users questions that assess how they want to use your product, and then use software like Userpilot to personalize the subsequent product tour based on their answers.

This is how Postfity segmented their users:

If you want to see how Userpilot can help you segment your customers, get a Userpilot demo today.

Website tour examples that follow best practices

Now that you know what a website tour is and what the signs of a good tour are, let’s look at some guided tour examples from other businesses.

Website tour example #1: Rocketbots

Rocketbots have a web app that allows you to connect all your messaging systems on one platform.

After the user logs in, they initially see this welcome screen :

Observe how Rocketbots is addressing me by name and how it’s already looking to personalize my user experience at this stage of the process.

This form is also extremely minimalistic, which shows that Rocketbots want to keep their website tour brief and get their users to activate as quickly as possible.

Once you’re done with the welcome page, the software serves you with an onboarding checklist , which looks like this:

It’s notable that the checklist includes the tasks “Connect a Channel” and “Create a Space.”

These are the two most important activation tasks that Rocketbots requires of its users.

Their software won’t work if you don’t have a “space” to put all your inboxes in, and you won’t experience any value until you’ve connected your first inbox (or “channel”) to your space.

Rocketbots used Userpilot to create a series of tooltips that walk users through these two activation tasks.

Here’s what the tooltips look like for adding your first channel:

Once this is complete, activation won’t be far away.

Website tour example #2: Tallyfy

Tallyfy is a project management tool. It has two main functionalities: documenting business processes, and then automating them.

Tallyfy’s tour consists of the following two tasks, both of which require action from the user:

The first task is simple enough. Simply follow the instructions and click “Open.”

Giving users a fast win like this is often a good idea when building your onboarding process . That way, your users will be more motivated than if you had a long, linear product tour .

The second task is rather more playful. If you click “Open,” you’re asked to choose between sand, bacon or cheese.

Adding a light touch of gamification is a great way that Tallyfy keeps its users engaged.

Once you’re done with these two trial tasks, Tallyfy finishes up by prompting you to create your own task.

There’s just the one CTA here, so it’s very clear where to go next after this website tour.

It seems to me like Tallyfy have listened to their user feedback and discovered that their product tour needn’t be any more complicated than this in order to get users to activate.

Website tour example #3: Demio

Demio is a webinar hosting service.

Their website tour is perhaps the very definition of interactivity . You are asked to join a fake webinar, and then handed over the reins to control it.

The webinar initially looks like this:

When the host passes control to you, you’re given dummy data and a slideshow to ensure that you have something to talk about.

If you’re anxious that this is some kind of a test, fear not! There is a fake audience who will chat in the sidebar and appreciate whatever you say!

There’s an element of playfulness to this website tour which makes it memorable.

And since it’s a fake webinar, there’s no risk to you if things go wrong. So it will be good practice for when you come to deliver a real webinar to real users.

If you take one thing away from this article, let it be that you consider using Userpilot to build your website tour!

It really is so much faster and cheaper than coding everything yourself, and Userpilot has templates for all the UI elements you’ll need.

Get a demo today and you’ll see what I mean.

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Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

To make a compatible tour page for your website requires a lot of insight towards what your visitors need to know. Generally you can find a lot of examples using static informational pages as a guided user tour. Admittedly this is a great method for gaining traction from your userbase but it is not easy to accomplish.

In this article I want to look over some examples and plugins for creating your own animated website tour. This could happen all on the same page or in-between different page sections. The content is entirely up to you and this leaves a lot of room for innovation. But after checking out some of the possibilities you will surely be able to craft something useful.

Designing Around Themes

A good tour should be created around a theme or specific user interface style. The dynamics of how your visitors access content in the tour will define terms if the information actually sticks. I really like the example tour from Dropbox which actually doesn’t use very many animations. But the page is fairly dynamic and quickly loads content in a book format.

It is easy to see how this may catch on as a quick and easy solution to explain Dropbox to somebody who has never heard of it. The colorful illustrations and graphics are also a nice touch. It seems like the interface would still work even having JavaScript disabled which is a good fallback solution. The minimalism is a welcome design feature by most guests.

The more simplistic tour page used on Freckle’s website is a single-page design without updated content. The first element is a big streaming video which is often preferred by most users. Videos are playable from mostly any browser and offer quick-to-the-point ideas for how to use the website or application.

But it is notable that their tour page includes real information and screenshots from the app. Depending on the complexity of your website this extra information may be a good idea. Setting up a complete tour page with just a video can be off-putting for some people. But I do stand by the idea of streaming videos and they can work even better as part of a presentation element.

Sticky-Sliding Navigation

One other solution for holding lots of tour content on a single page is parallax scrolling. The background images will slide along as the user scrolls but we keep a fixed navigation menu attached onto the interface. Then users may skip through the different sections at their own leisure.

The very creative MediaFire website is host to many great design aesthetics. But their homepage actually contains a small guided tour area once you scroll past the header. You will notice a series of links which are fixed off to the left side. You may click any of these section links to pan around the page jumping between content.

Take inspiration from this for your own ideas but remember that a tour should feature the most important or puzzling ideas related to your website. You are looking to clarify any questions users may have so that people aren’t lost when browsing the interface. You will find this to be the case on MediaFire and it is obviously very useful in other applications and social networking websites.

An Example Tour Page

The web development blog Codrops has been publishing a lot of great tutorials revolving around new-age design trends. Most recently I found an article discussing website tours using jQuery and the demo is simply fantastic. Additionally developers may download the project source code and see how to create this same effect on your own site.

There are a couple major benefits to the Codrops tour approach. First we have a navigation box in the top right corner so users have quick access to the next piece of the tour. Some tutorials do allow for navigation through the arrow keys – but this method doesn’t help unless you directly explain to the user that they should navigate using the keyboard.

I also really like how the popup bubbles do not interfere with other elements on the page. You may style each bubble differently as needed and this provides an excellent resource for demonstrating your website’s capabilities. The autoplay tour demo is another solution if you would rather animate like a movie without any user input.

Building with Open Source

All the examples so far should provide insight towards the idea that many different websites can build tours in various layout styles. Most of these pages are custom made, but modern developers have their choice of building with existing projects. jQuery developers have provided a handful of free open source plugins including my favorite which is called pageguide.js .

Check out the demo Github page if you want to see this effect in action. Pageguide offers the ability to customize not only tooltips, but also highlighted elements and motion up and down the page. Granted the coding may get a little harsh if you are unfamiliar with JavaScript. But this is true of almost any dynamic tour plugin so it will require some buckling down.

Another choice you may look into is the Joyride plugin released by Zurb. You can find this on Github and many of the features will continue years into the future. The plugin supports native responsive elements which may adapt as the window resizes. Plus the documentation is well-written and offers a slew of fantastic options to choose from.

There are definitely some other plugins worth mentioning like aSimpleTour and Crumble.js. It is difficult to pin down one specific plugin and label this as the de-facto tour plugin. But the truth is that each website will be using tours for a different reason. You’ll need to have a plan in advance before looking into the development side. But luckily there are plenty of open source projects to aid in the creation of your tour pages, no matter how complicated the interface.

Final Thoughts

I hope some of these resources may prove beneficial to web developers around the world. You do not often find startups with fantastic tours and feature walkthroughs. But the handful that are use tours online have been pushing the boundaries on this new trend in web design.

It is true that we have never had so much support for dynamic jQuery enhancement. Any static website tour may not require animations or any type of jQuery for that matter. But the added effects are often much more captivating to new users. Be sure and check out some of these plugins or demo pages from throughout the article. Plus if you have any questions or ideas we may have skipped over please share with us in the post discussion area.

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In the era of social distancing, nonprofits across the sector are having to act quickly to move in-person events online — and for better or for worse, it’s likely that this will be our new normal for the foreseeable future.

Some of the types of events impacted by this are immediately obvious; things like fundraising events, galas, and in-person programs have demanded quick pivots and adjustments in order to make up for potential losses in earned revenue in response to covid..

But as we’re seeing, site visits are another example of a once-standard practice that now require some flexibility and creative adjustments. And regardless of how long the effects of this pandemic last, knowing how to plan and execute a successful virtual site visit could still be an asset even when things return to normal.

Before we get too far, let’s establish exactly what we mean when we talk about site visits.

What is a site visit?

According to Exponent Philanthropy, a site visit is defined as a meeting with one or more staff, board members, or clients of a nonprofit organization, with the goal of understanding more about what they do and how well they do it. Site visits are often part of a funder’s vetting or decision-making process for a grant, or they may be used to help monitor a current grantee at the midpoint or end of a grant cycle.

At Elevate, we also leverage site visits in our work with nonprofit clients that are based outside of the DC Metro region. The primary purpose for these visits is to enhance our services to our clients by understanding their programs in more depth, seeing their programs up close, and building rapport and goodwill with our points of contact.

A virtual site visit has very similar goals, and may even look quite similar to an in-person site visit, with one obvious exception: the meeting takes place in a virtual forum.

As you think about how to make this shift for your organization and begin planning for upcoming virtual site visits with your funders, here are some ideas you might consider :

1. Start from scratch

Tempting as it might be, we do not recommend simply converting a previously-planned site visit into a virtual one. Instead, take some time to consider which aspects of your programs are easiest to showcase virtually, and how best to do so. For example: if you typically do a tour of your office or campus, will you try to do something similar via phone? Or does it make more sense to offer a tour via PowerPoint presentation?

2. Prepare an agenda

We strongly suggest you spend time putting together an appropriate agenda for the site visit ahead of time. We often think it’s best to ask funders if they have a standard agenda they’d like to use, or any questions they’d like to go over first; if they say no, that’s a great opportunity to share an agenda of your own.

When you do share your agenda, that’s a great time to ask your funder if there’s anything missing, or anything else they’d like to go over. This helps them to prepare a little on their end, and gives them an opportunity to offer more meaningful feedback about how they’d like to spend their time .

3. Bring in your participants’ voices

We always like for funders to hear directly from our clients’ program participants, volunteers, and/or recipients whenever possible. Depending on the options available to you, it may be fine to use a video or video excerpt if you have that prepared. However, if you’re able, you may want to invite a few volunteers or participants who are also working from home to join you. Not everyone needs to attend the full duration, but including others can lend more structure to the site visit and help make the tone less meeting-like.

If you do decide to include others, be sure to offer them a good range of topics or talking points ahead of time, to help clarify expectations. We recommend scheduling a meeting or prep call with everyone who will be in attendance, to walk through all the details together ahead of time.

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4. Consider inviting a Board member

Having a Board member join your site visit is an excellent way to demonstrate that the Board is engaged, and that they find it important enough to carve out time from their day to meet with a funder. When selecting a board member to invite, choose someone you can trust to stick to the agenda and talking points, and who is in-the-loop enough to answer questions that might be asked of them.

If inviting a Board member isn’t an option — or even if it is! — you can also have a staff member join you. If you end up having both a Board member and a member of your staff, it’s a good idea to prep them in advance, so everyone is clear about who should field which types of questions. Typically, staff will take on the more detailed questions, while a Board member’s role is more about lending support and credibility.

5. Find ways to break up the monotony

Without having something to do or to look at, virtual site visits run the risk of feeling like a long drawn-out meeting. To help break up the monotony, think about introducing elements like a slideshow of photos to introduce your programs, or give a virtual tour of your space.

At a typical in-person site visit, we sometimes worry about focusing too much on having a PowerPoint prepared since we think it’s more important for people to have a conversation. While this is still true in principle, we also think having some prepared content to walk through can offer a welcome sense of structure and dynamism in a virtual setting. For example, you might break up a 60-90 minute site visit into a few phases, like:

• Introductions
• A virtual tour via PowerPoint/screen share
• A volunteer or participant joins and speaks about their experience for 10-15 minutes
• Q&A with the funder

6. Prepare thoughtful questions

This applies to a ‘normal’ site visit too, but the point stands: make sure you take time to prepare insightful questions to ask your funders as well. During the COVID-19 pandemic in particular, we’d recommend asking them about their future funding strategies and what is top-of-mind for them, if you haven’t already had that conversation.

7. Have a solid game plan for (and TEST) your technology

Hosting a site visit in a virtual environment is likely a new experience for you, so you’ll want to make sure you have a clear and thorough plan for how things are going to run from start to finish. Start by thinking through any apps and/or equipment you’ll need, and who on your team will be responsible for what components of the day. From there, we recommend doing at least one internal test run to make sure things run smooth, and nothing was overlooked.

We all know technology can be fickle, so having a contingency plan is key. What will you do if a team member loses their internet connection, or if that video doesn’t load properly? Once you’ve decided on what your backup plans look like for various scenarios, discuss them with your team and make sure you’re all on the same page. You’ll also want to make sure you have email addresses from all parties involved, in case you need to quickly share any documents or materials that fail to load properly. Finally, we recommend sharing a phone number with everyone who will be attending, that they can call in case of any unanticipated interruptions or hiccups.

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Virtual Site Visits: How Technology Can Make It Easier

A significant part of any good event is choosing the right venue. Typically, you would walk the venue in order to get a sense of its size, unique features, and overall charm. It provides you with confidence that it is capable of meeting the needs of your clients prior to completing the booking.

Unfortunately, it’s not always possible to visit a location. You could be sheltering in place for the pandemic or the venue could be located on the other side of the country. Whatever the reason for being unable to tour in person, you can choose to use virtual site visits. The technology that makes this possible has improved drastically over the past few years.

More importantly, virtual site visits can be beneficial to you if you’re an event planner with a particular venue, such as a hotel or convention center. Further, it can be beneficial to your clients if they are going to be exploring your venue before moving forward with booking.

What are virtual site visits?

A virtual site visit allows for the ability to stay within the comfort of your home while being able to explore something on your internet-connected device. This concept has been around for a while and virtual tours make it possible to tour museums, national parks, and more without ever having to leave the house.

Particularly with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing many people from leaving their homes, it begs the question of how event planners are supposed to get their jobs done.

Technology responds by providing you with the ability to view the venue on your computer or mobile device. Instead of simply looking at photos, you can be given a full walk-through tour. It allows you to see the entire flow of the building, understanding the dynamics every step of the way.

Seeing as how some venues look better in photos than they do in person, the virtual tours answer the questions. It can identify the full layout. You can pivot at any point of the tour in order to see a 360-degree view from where you’re virtually standing in the room.

What are the benefits of virtually visiting a site?

There are quite a few benefits of virtually visiting a site. Perhaps the most obvious is that it allows you to explore a venue without having to go anywhere. This is convenient during the pandemic as well as when it’s simply not geographically possible for you to walk a venue.

Another benefit is that you will have access to the virtual tour 24/7. When scheduling can be problematic, you have the ability to tour the venue when it’s convenient for you. This can also allow you to share the virtual tour link with others who may not have been able to go on the tour with you but who are still invested in what the venue looks like.

You also have the ability to view the site for as long as you wish and as often as you wish. If you have ever toured a facility and realized later that you forgot to take a measurement, forgot to look at how far the nearest restroom was, or forgot to take note of lighting, you know what a pain it can be. Additionally, when you have to make appointments to tour a venue, you may be left feeling rushed to see it all in 15 or 30 minutes. If you want to tour the site several times before making a decision to book it, virtual tours provide you with a higher level of convenience to do so.

How Virtual Site Visits Can Secure More Business

When you’re a venue, you have to make it easy for your event planners to show off the property. You also have to make it easy for clients to see the property. Regardless of what events may be held at the location, there are a lot of details that need to be considered.

No one wants to spend thousands of dollars to rent a venue “sight unseen” because it can lead to problems during setup and throughout the event. It can lead to unhappy clients and bad reviews. As such, you want to make it easy for people to see the property so they know exactly what they’re getting.

Virtual tours are made possible with 3D renderings and other technology that truly paints a three-dimensional view of every corner of your property. You can choose to leave the venue empty or you can even render in various details to show what the venue would look like decorated for a conference, a wedding, or another type of event.

3D Renderings for Realistic Expectations

You will be able to discover the many benefits of 3D rendering within a virtual site tour. Perhaps one of the most important aspects is that it can offer accuracy along with precise measurements. Many event planners and clients want to know how the space can be set up for their wedding, reunion, conference, or another event. You have the ability to give that to them with your 3D rendering.

By working in a digital atmosphere, it can also save you money as you paint a picture of what people can expect. Many venues spend thousands of dollars decorating their venue. They want to show off what it would look like for a wedding or a convention. Then, they hire even more for a photographer to take photos. Those are, then, used on the website for marketing purposes.

The problem with staging your venue is that it still doesn’t answer the questions that many people have. What are the lighting options? How far do guests have to go to use the bathroom? What size table will fit against the wall?

3D renderings and virtual tours allow you to have the best marketing tool so that common questions are answered. It’s also the most economical option because of being able to create digital renderings of a staged venue instead of making an investment in furniture and props.

Embracing the Technology That Makes It Happen

Successful virtual site visits depend on technology. Real estate agents have been using “virtual” tours for years, though there are problems with virtual tours . Many agents use the wrong terminology, which means they over-promise and under-deliver with “tours” that are no more than a slideshow of photos. Additionally, the tours are incapable of representing the 3D space and allowing people to see all that the property has to offer.

How Does it Work?

A variety of technologies are leveraged in order to let your venue shine. The more videos, drawings, and photos you have of your property, the easier it will be to incorporate every angle. Additionally, you have the ability to use 3D Warehouse and other 3D drawing tools in order to provide even more details — including “virtually” decorating your venue.

Concept3D embraces the latest technology in order to overcome the problems found in some of the virtual tours being offered. This includes ensuring that the virtual tour is truly interactive while being able to explore the venue in a three-dimensional way. We use a blend of 3D, location mapping, and physical data to offer a full visualization. It ensures that people have the ability to “walk” the space on any digital device to understand more about what the venue feels like.

Perhaps the most important aspect of our platform is that it is compatible with a VR Viewer. This allows people to truly immerse themselves into your venue rather than looking at 2D photos. Photos fail to give an understanding of how the photos are ordered based on getting from the entrance of the building to the venue space and every corner within it.

Meet (and Exceed) Expectations

Customers demand more in today’s day and age. They already know that virtual tours exist because they’ve used them — especially during the pandemic. Many businesses and organizations offer virtual tours of Disney World, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other locations around the globe. When it comes to wanting to tour a venue, they’re going to expect that you have this technology in place.

Your customers demand convenience more than anything else. They want to conveniently tour a location, and that means being able to do so at any time of the day or night from the comfort of their home. If you’re unable to provide them with virtual tours, they may choose to eliminate your venue from their list of options.

Creating a virtual site visit is easier than you might think, especially since you’ve already been taking photos and videos. By incorporating more technology, you can ensure that your venue is accessible even when people cannot tour it in person. With an easy-to-use platform, you have the ability to build and edit a virtual experience of your property, allowing you to offer virtual tours of your event space 24/7.

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If you’re looking for virtual reality tools to showcase your space, there are many websites to choose from.

Virtual tours have made a considerable impact in creating a real life element to spaces online. Instead of merely using a group of gallery photos, you’re able to get a realistic feel of a place without having to physically be there.

Here are five websites you can use to create virtual tours.

If you're looking for an easy way to create a virtual tour, this is a great place to start. Kuula allows you to provide an experience of your space. Instead of a boring slide show, Kuula helps you create a 360-degree tour.

Creating a virtual tour on Kuula is simple. All you have to do is create an account, and you're good to go. You can upload and arrange your panoramic shots and have your virtual tour ready in minutes.

Kuula offers a free plan where you can share up to 100 uploads per month. If you’ll need unlimited uploads or advanced features, you can opt for the Pro plan for $16/month.

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2. Matterport

Matterport is one of the largest 3D platforms for virtual tours. This tool can be used by anyone, whether you want to share your space with friends and family or you might want to create a tour of your professional property. This tool doesn’t only capture a 360 view, it captures the depth of your space by combining a 360 view with 3D data.

Matterport can help you capture your space professionally through a 3D capture technician, starting at $129. But, you don't have to use an advanced technician to create your virtual tour. You can also do it yourself using your iPhone.

Matterport offers a free plan, a starter plan for $9.99/month, and a Pro plan for $69/month.

3. Metareal Stage

With Metareal Stage, you can use 360 images to create your virtual tour. Metareal Stage lets you create more than a 3D tour, you can also create a 3D model and model view.

A unique feature on Metareal Stage is “Build It For Me”, which basically does the job for you. All you have to do is upload your panorama shots and your virtual tour is created. This feature costs $4 per panorama.

Metareal Stage works well with a 360 camera, a DSLR, or if you have a rotator, you can use your phone camera. You can build your virtual tours for free. However, if you're looking for more features, you'll pay between $9.95 to $39 per month.

4. CloudPano

While CloudPano is used by multiple brands across industries, it’s not restricted to marketers and business owners. CloudPano is an easy to use 360 virtual tour software that can be used by anyone.

To use this tool, you simply have to sign up for an account. You can upload an unlimited amount of 360 photos under a free plan. However, your tours will expire after 120 days. If you're using this tool for your business and need additional features, you can pay $10 per tour or choose the Pro Plus plan for $33 per month.

If you want to create aerial virtual tours for large spaces such as a golf course, Roundme is the tool for you.

With Roundme, you can use portals to allow people to easily navigate across your panoramic tour. You can also get inspired by a community of 360 photographers and contributors on the website.

Roundme offers a free account with up to 15 uploads per week. If you want access to unlimited uploads, the Pro account costs $8.25/month.

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Use Virtual Tours to See the World

The above websites are all amazing and will surely help you create virtual tours. But, virtual tours aren't only useful for showcasing your space.

With virtual tours, you don't have to worry about distance. If you want to view some of the world’s most desired places, you can use virtual tours to do that.

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How to Design a Tour Page: Examples and Best Practices

Tour pages are one of the most important components for websites advertising apps and/or services. The tour page is often where interested users will either make the firm decision to sign up or move on to something else.

Needless to say, there’s a lot of pressure as a designer to get this right! Fear not however, many talented designers have gone before you and we can learn a lot by looking at their examples. We’ll dive into tour pages from giants like Mozilla, 37Signals and Mint.com and see what common tricks they all use to win conversions.

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It’s Harder Than It Looks

You’ve done it, you’ve wrangled that ever elusive home page click out of the user. They’re interested in your site and they want to learn more. You think you’re in the clear but a new challenge awaits. You now have one shot to convince them that you can make good on the promises of the home page, that your app does what you said it would and more in a way that is better than what everyone else is doing.

You’re designing a tour page. It’s a deceptively simple task. You’ll do well to not run through it half-heartedly but instead spend some solid time making it the best page you can. This is where potential users will really start to form judgments about your service and you don’t want to screw up that all important first impression. Let’s take a look at some live examples from designers that have gone before you to see what we can learn.

Mint is one of my favorite services on the web. Not only is it immensely helpful for tracking every cent you spend, it also happens to be super attractive from a design perspective. Since their designers are so talented, I figured they could probably teach us a thing or two about today’s topic. Here’s a snap of the tour page:

Content Organization

The first thing I notice about this page is that it has a ton of content. You don’t want to overload your visitors with information if you have a fairly straight forward service, but something financial like Mint raises a lot of red flags with people who’re rightfully cautious about giving a website access to their bank account. In light of this, Mint is very transparent about every aspect of the service before you sign up.

This is an important concept. If your service has any reasons that would give visitors pause when thinking about signing up, the tour page is your chance to address those issues in detail by being open, honest and reassuring about your product.

Another great thing that Mint gets right is the organization of the content into small, digestible and neatly organized chunks. Rather than tossing everything into one mile long page, they’ve implemented a sort of AJAX content switcher that updates the right column as you choose a topic.

Strong Content Presentation

Another thing that mint really nails is the presentation of their content. Take note of this because lots of people get it wrong: Short, simple and straightforward headlines coupled with clear, attractive screenshots and brief but descriptive supporting text. Here’s what that looks like in action:

Notice the copy here, it’s brief and to the point while telling you what you need to know. Also check out how the screenshot is focusing in on the important part, this loupe trick is really common in web design right now.

Mint has another trick up its sleeve as well. When the screenshots may not be enough, they toss in some extra visual cues. In the screenshot below, the headline about a budget is reinforced by the instant read of a piggy bank with a belt around it to signify budgets:

The screenshot could’ve done this itself, but the graphs are a little vague and were therefore not an instant read, the pig may be cheesy and predictable but it helps push this design right where it needs to be.

Let’s leave Mint behind and look at another well designed tour page. The folks at 37signals are known for their simple and clean design style that serves up just what you need and nothing more. Here’s a shot of the tour page for their Basecamp app.

Different, But the Same

Notice two important aspects of this page in light of the previous example. First, the design style is very different from Mint’s. However, the pages are actually incredibly similar. Notice the brief chunks of content organized by a content switcher on the left, screenshots, strong headlines, extra visual cues to aid the screenshots, even the back and forth layout style is almost exactly what we saw on Mint.

This is a very important thing to learn as a designer: design patterns exist independently of design style . Mint has a very shiny, finished look with lots of gloss and reflection while Basecamp is very flat in its Google-like simplicity. This is merely the candy coating though, under this is the critical framework of a strong layout, which makes the content easier to take in.

Digging Deeper

Once you’ve checked out the overview for the Basecamp features, you have the opportunity to see them in action by clicking on the little video links scattered throughout the page. I’m a sucker for a good product video and I think these really help to keep your content brief and to the point while still offering the in-depth look that some visitors need.

Keep in mind that Basecamp prides itself on how simple and stripped down its feature set is, so if Basecamp isn’t too basic for product demonstration videos, neither is your site. Video screencasting apps are very affordable and easy to use so no matter what your budget is, it’s not hard to pull together some professional looking video tours.

Mozilla Rethinks the Tour Page

The basic format that we’ve seen for the last two tour pages is a fairly common one. You can see nearly identical tactics being used on dozens of web app sites. Check out the tour pages for Checkout App and Campaign Monitor and you’ll find that same left aligned content switcher being used in conjunction with brief lists of features coupled with screenshots and icons.

There’s a reason this format is so widely used: it works. Each of these pages is able to maintain its own unique identity while sharing tried and true techniques with its brethren. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the rules of the tour page are set in stone or that we’ve landed on the best possible solution for all sites.

One example of a company that often decides to think outside the box is Mozilla. Their talented design team decided to ditch the common tour page format and blaze their own trail. The result is a fun, interactive and incredibly straightforward overview of the browser:

Here we see a screenshot of the browser with a bunch of markers placed all over it. The instructions are simple and can be read in a second: “Roll over the markers below for feature info.” Following this advice gives you a closer look at the important features.

I love how direct this method is, it explains the app’s features not through abstract generic icons and bloated paragraphs but with a simple screenshot that points out everything you need to know.

An Organized Mess

This method of marking up a screenshot makes for a fairly organic design. Rather than a predictable and logical flow, the markers are scattered all over the place. There’s a very subtle design trick though that helps you see order in the chaos, can you see it?

That little dotted path is one of those tiny design touches that can really pull a page together. Without it, there’s a mess of links, with it, there’s a clear progression to follow. Granted, you don’t have to follow it perfectly and I’d wager that few users ever do, however, it’s mere presence gives the page a slight but important usability boost while bringing in a semblance of order.

Show the Process

Our last tour page design trick that you should know comes from Big Cartel . Here’s a cropped shot of their tour page:

There’s something super simple but incredibly effective at the top of this page, a three step process . Sometimes a tour page needs to be more than a simple showcase of features. For instance, when you’re claiming that your service simplifies something complicated, such as setting up an online store, it’s critical that you illustrate how this works somehow.

Three is a magic number so when possible, try to break down processes to three nice and simple steps that anyone can grasp. This is all about making the user feel empowered, they need to look at this and say, “I can do this!”, especially if they’ve looked elsewhere and found only discouragingly complicated solutions.

The examples above each have their own unique lessons to teach us and together they paint a picture of some very common tour page design practices that you can implement in your upcoming projects.

As you embark on your tour page adventure, remember that the web gives you remarkable freedom to experiment to see what works best. Try coming up with a few different designs and then running some A/B testing to see which users respond to best.

If you’ve designed a tour page recently, leave a comment with a link below. What techniques did you employ to ensure success? Have you learned anything by experimenting with different layouts and designs?

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By: Angela Robinson | Updated: November 07, 2022

You found our list of the best online virtual tours !

Virtual tours are online experiences that enable visitors to experience museums, zoos, national parks, landmarks, and attractions. These tours use methods such as 360 pictures, satellite imagery, virtual reality, or video conferencing to bring famous sites into living rooms or classrooms. The purpose of these tours is to inspire, entertain and educate audiences. These experiences are also called “online tours.”

These tours are popular virtual field trips and can be fun online classroom activities .

This post includes:

• virtual museum tours
• online tours of national parks
• virtual zoo tours

So, here is the list!

List of virtual museum tours

Here is a list of online museum tours that are perfect for both adults and kids. We also have a list of virtual museum scavenger hunt templates for you to use.

1. Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History offers a self-guided virtual tour of current and past museum exhibits. This experience includes narrated components, accessible via computer or smartphone. The Smithsonian also offers virtual experiences for its other institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Museum of the American Indian.

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2. British Museum

The British Museum hosts an online “Museum of the World” that enables visitors to browse exhibits by area of origin, era, and subject matter. For example, you can search the collection by themes like “power and identity” or “art and design.” Each digital exhibit includes a picture, description, audio file, and links to related artifacts.

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3. Auschwitz

This virtual tour of Auschwitz offers a panoramic birds eye view of the camps, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II Birkenau, along with clickable descriptions of each area. Online visitors can also switch to an illustrated map of the grounds to better understand the scope of the concentration camps. The online tour is available in both English and Polish.

Visit Auschwitz .

4. Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House welcomes visitors from around the world with digital experiences such as video, virtual reality, 360° photos of the Frank home, and translations of the diary in over 20 languages. Virtual visitors can also browse a pocket gallery by downloading the app.

Visit Anne Frank House .

5. 9/11 Memorial & Museum

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum website has a learn and explore feature which includes live, guide-led panoramic virtual tours of the rebuilt center, interactive videos, and webinar stories. The site also recommends activities to do at home with children to simulate the museum’s activity stations.

Visit 9/11 Memorial & Museum .

6. Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums provides an online experience consisting of 360° high resolution photos of over a dozen features such as the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms. The website also grants web access to archaeological areas, various departments, and a searchable online catalogue.

Visit Vatican Museums .

7. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Austria hosts a digital museum consisting of an online collection, artist talks and lectures, podcasts and Spotify series, and high resolution images of works and galleries. The museum also has its own app that enables online walk-throughs, including specialty tours for children.

Visit the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien .

8. National Museum (New Delhi)

New Delhi’s National Museum, often called the National Museum of India, displays the largest collection of art and artifacts in the country. The institution’s Museum at Home web portal consists of dozens of videos depicting sculptures, artifacts, and customs, with accompanying cultural analysis from curators. The site also links to several 360° and 3-D virtual galleries that enable online walk-throughs of the building.

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9. National Palace Museum & the Forbidden City (Beijing)

The National Palace Museum sits in the heart of Beijing and houses centuries worth of art and history. The museum building is a monument to classic Chinese architecture, as is the surrounding palace complex, the Forbidden City. Virtual visitors can tour works inside the museum and stroll through the outer courtyards by indulging in interactive and immersive virtual and VR tours. Both options give viewers the opportunity to explore the grounds up close without navigating the crowds.

Visit National Palace Museum and the Forbidden City .

10. Pergamonmuseum

Pergamonmuseum in Berlin contains a wealth of art and archaeological treasures, and curators give home viewers a glimpse into the collections through several online exhibits on Google Arts & Culture. The collection includes over 1,000 images of objects made of clay, metal, copper, and gemstone, originating in regions such as Iran, Spain, Turkey, and Germany.

Visit Pergamonmuseum .

11. National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia offers free one hour digital excursions to schools that cannot visit the museum in person. The tours are available on weekdays between 9:30-10:30 am or at other times by request, and accommodate groups of 10 to 30 students. Classes meet with museum staff via Zoom and complete missions based around themes like the fight for indigenous rights. Virtual exhibition gallery tours are also available on occasion.

Visit the National Museum of Australia and check out these Indigenous Peoples Day ideas .

The Louvre virtual tour consists of 360° panoramic views of exhibit halls such as Egyptian Antiquities and the ruins of the Louvre Moat. By downloading a special app, visitors can also experience Mona Lisa in virtual reality. The museum website hosts multimedia online exhibitions of famous works such as Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour and Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss.

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13. Guggenheim

The Guggenheim museum offers staff facilitated online tours for students ranging from kindergarten to grade 12. Educators can book interactive, real-time tours for classes that engage students and enable question and answer sessions. Tours are no cost for New York City public schools. For other districts the tours are less than $100, and discounted rates are available. Tours have a maximum of 30 participants, meaning groups are sure to receive an intimate experience.

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14. Musée d’Orsay

The Google Arts tour of the Musée d’Orsay includes background and history on the museum building, as well as images, descriptions, and details of some of the museum’s most famous works. For example, the collection includes Van Gogh’s Self Portrait , James McNeill Whistler’s Whistler’s Mother , and Bartholdi’s Liberty .

Visit Musée d’Orsay .

15. Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a Dutch National Museum that hosts an impressive array of art and history. Rijksmuseum’s virtual tour, which includes a Rijksmuseum from home series, consists of high definition pictures, videos, and audio narration that details seminal works inside the museum. The experience also includes interactive components such as a “find the key” challenge and creative tutorials.

Visit Rijksmuseum .

16. Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City launched a virtual views series which enables website visitors to browse rotating online exhibits. As part of the series, the MoMA site also hosts virtual events with components such as live Q&A sessions with artists and curators, readings and theatrical performances, 3-D renderings, and interactive games.

Visit MoMA .

17. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met 360° Project is a collection of six wide-lens videos compatible with both virtual reality systems, or regular computer screens or smartphones. Virtual viewers take a point-of-view tour of museum areas such as the Great Hall, the Met Cloisters, and the Arms and Armor Gallery, set to a soundtrack of instrumental music. The Met website also hosts an Art at Home series that offers up close virtual access and analysis to famous works, as well as videos of conservation projects and instructions for art projects.

Visit the MET .

18. Paul J. Getty Museum

The Google Arts & Culture online tour of the Getty Museum spans dozens of exhibits with thousands of digital artifacts. Pieces span as far back as the eighth century until modern times, with notable pieces including The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul , Rembrandt Laughing , and Irises .

Visit the Getty Museum .

19. Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago facilitates online visits consisting of virtual video and audio tours, searchable online collections, digital publications, as well as online lesson plans and art projects. There is even an “Ask an Educator” form that enables parents or teachers to communicate with museum staff who hand-pick resources to assist with lessons planning.

Visit the Art Institute of Chicago .

20. National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)

The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. website hosts digital perspectives, virtual exhibitions, and digital collections. The online experience also includes streamable films visitors can watch online.

Visit the National Gallery of Art .

21. The National Gallery (London)

The National Gallery of London offers immersive virtual tours accessible via smartphone, computer, or virtual reality headset. Through three different remote tours, virtual visitors can explore multiple wings of the museum, 18+ rooms, and 300+ paintings. The Gallery’s robust social media presence promotes further interaction with online art.

Visit The National Gallery .

22. Uffizi Gallery

The Google Arts & Culture Tour of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence explores four online exhibitions and hundreds of pieces of arts and artifacts, many in the Renaissance style. Notable pieces include Birth of Venus by Botecelli, Portraits of the Duke & Duchess of Urbino by Piero Della Francesca, and Madonna of the Goldfinch by Raphael.

Visit Uffizi Gallery .

23. Frida Kahlo Museum

The virtual tour of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City is one of the most colorful museum tours online. Virtual visitors tour various areas of the grounds in a 360°, up close experience. The colors of the architecture and artifacts are works of art in themselves, and are sure to brighten viewers’ days. The website offers additional resources including downloadable photos, videos, quotes, and even recipes.

Visit Frida Kahlo Museum .

24. Russian Museum

The Virtual Russian Museum is a web portal consisting of several digital resources such as online lectures, virtual 3-D walk through tours of the museum complex with accompanying audio, and a multimedia center. The multimedia component of the virtual branch includes digital content and displays, broadcasts and video conferencing, and interactive web workshops.

Visit Russian Museum .

25. Tokyo National Museum

The Tokyo National Museum contains artworks and antiquities dating back several centuries, and displays over 100 digital images of textiles, clay-ware, ceramics, and similar artifacts on its Google Arts & Culture tour. During this remote museum tour, virtual visitors peruse Asian art and conduct Google Earth walk-throughs of museum galleries.

Visit Tokyo National Museum .

26. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

This online tour of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea enables web visitors to explore the country’s unique culture and heritage. The tour includes multiple online exhibits, hundreds of pieces of modern artwork, and several floors of the building, including sections of the outdoor sculpture garden.

Visit the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art .

27. MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo has an impressive online presence with over 1,000 images of paintings, photographs, and objects in its Google Arts & Culture collection. Online visitors can delve into South American art and culture by exploring online exhibits and browsing through digital collections. The Google App also enables virtual reality tours of the museum via smartphone.

Visit MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo .

28. Space Center Houston

Space Center Houston offers free interactive virtual learning experiences like an online Apollo 13 exhibit, video series, and an app that offers mobile tours plus augmented reality and virtual reality experiences. The center also occasionally hosts virtual stargazing camp-outs and suggests at home science experiments and games. Plus, the website is a wealth of online outer space resources.

Visit Space Center Houston .

29. American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History suggests several options for virtual visits. These options include virtual field trips, an “inside the museum” high resolution picture tour, guided tours on Facebook live, and an expedition app experience that includes quizzes and exhibit highlights.

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30. Oxford University’s History of Science Museum

The Oxford History of Science Museum website displays past exhibits so virtual visitors can learn more about concepts such as antibiotics, the human brain, and the Transit of Venus. The format of each online exhibit varies, but most contain, at minimum, sample images and descriptions.

Visit Oxford University’s History of Science Museum .

31. The National Museum of the United States Air Force

The National Museum of the United States Air Force provides digital resources such as 360° photo cockpit tours, podcasts, and videos. The site also supplies lesson plans broken down by grade level, with extras like aircraft coloring pages and word searches.

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32. The National Museum of Computing

The National Museum of Computing offers a comprehensive 3D virtual tour of the entire museum, with multiple touch-points explaining the significance of fixtures. The online walk-through enables a point-of-view, clickable dollhouse tour of the entire building, with a wealth of supplemental materials like videos, audio files, and documents. For a fee, the museum also arranges curated virtual tours that form a more personalized experience.

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33. Boston Museum of Science

Boston’s premier science museum presents a Museum of Science at Home experience consisting of virtual exhibits, daily live streams, podcasts, town halls, and family STEM activities. The museum provides digital programs for both adults and children, with highlights including live social events, an ant colony webcam, and stimulating multimedia content.

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34. Glazer Children’s Museum

The Glazer Children’s Museum website hosts virtual experiences such as digital field trips and weekly facilitated live Zoom play sessions. These sessions have educational themes like music and movement or STEM. The site also publishes content designed for anytime learning, such as instructional videos and blog posts that lead visitors through at-home art projects, science experiments, and story-time.

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35. Children’s Museum Houston

The Children’s Museum Houston advertises an ongoing all-time access program. This program provides regular content such as 3-D digital field trips, virtual adventure camps, daily broadcasted project tutorials, webinar workshops, and video call-in shows. The museum also has a free smartphone app for additional at-home adventures.

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36. Children’s Museum Indianapolis

Children’s Museum Indianapolis provides a museum at home experience including ongoing virtual events, digital museum programs, follow-along hands-on activities, and virtual birthday parties. The museum also creates holiday-themed downloadable activity bundles and resources for teachers.

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37. The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong museum in Rochester, NY, examines the history of playtime throughout recent history. Its online exhibits follow fun themes such as “Pinball in America”, “The History of Valentines”, and the Oregon Trail computer games. The online collection hosts a staggering 77,000+ images, many of which are designs for games throughout the decades.

Visit The Strong National Museum of Play .

38. Boston Children’s Museum

The Boston Children’s Museum website provides learning resources including weekly activitiy emails, Mad Libs, and links to mini digital museums and interactive apps. This section of the museum’s website has many tools to keep kids occupied for hours.

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List of online national park tours

Here is a list of national parks to visit online.

39. Joshua Tree

A virtual tour to Joshua Tree includes video, readable web content, photos and other multimedia. To captivate younger visitors, the park posts digital scavenger hunts, a junior ranger program, and guest speaker series. Educators can schedule virtual field trips with park rangers centered around topics such as plants and animals, rocks and minerals, and weather and erosion.

Visit Joshua Tree .

40. Zion National Park

An online visit to Zion National Park includes virtual hikes and shuttle tours, along with a free app that launches a historical exploration of the region. Web visitors explore the canyons in virtual reality from multiple vantage points, exploring the terrain from the comfort of the couch.

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41. Yosemite

Virtual Yosemite provides an aerial view of the park with zoomable scenic spots. The remote park tour also features a panoramic index for easy navigation to various locales within the preservation, but visitors can also click through and rotate the views to explore more organically. Virtual Yosemite presents high resolution images of a variety of landscapes, highlighting the geographical diversity of the land.

Visit Yosemite .

42. Bryce Canyon

While not an immersive experience, the Bryce Canyon virtual tour provides pictures and descriptions of locations along the trail so that virtual visitors can imagine hikes and plan future trips. The points of the online tour outline the landscape variety of the canyon, describing sights like Mossy Cave, Swamp Canyon, and Natural Bridge.

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43. Death Valley

This 360° online tour of California’s Death Valley National Park allows visitors to pan around the attraction’s various landscapes, from dunes to craters to canyons. Each spot contains a short description of the geography. The high resolution images create a virtual reality experience that immerses viewers in the environment.

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44. Grand Canyon

This virtual tour of the Grand Canyon consists of 3D satellite images via Google Earth. Virtual visitors can rotate or click through trails, view the canyon from above, and navigate to photos of notable landmarks like Yavapai Point and The Abyss. High resolution pictures enable cyber sightseers to take in the views without the fear of falling.

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45. Redwood National Forest

Redwood National Forest facilitates virtual reality experiences via smartphone or computer, where online visitors take in 360° canopy tours for a panoramic view of the forest. The site also hosts multimedia presentations that include narrated videos, documentaries, songs, and other educational materials.

Visit Redwood National Forest .

46. Hot Springs National Park

Exploring Arkansas’ Hot Springs National Park from home is possible thanks to a collection of photography, suggested readings, and an aerial digital map. The latter presents a birds eye view of the bath house district with clickable panoramic views inside the buildings. These resources enable virtual visitors to learn about the region’s rich cultural past and recent scientific research.

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47. Gateway Arch

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis provides a series of short pre-recorded videos exploring the history of the region and the exhibitions within the park, along with livestream webcam views from the top of the arch. The park website features historical analysis and photo galleries too, along with a virtual stamp for visitor’s National Park Passport books.

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48. Niagara Falls

This panoramic tour of Niagara Falls presents rotating 360° photos of park vistas such as the Cave of the Winds, Prospect Point, and the river rapids. A short description accompanies each photograph, outlining background information about the scenic spots.

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49. Everglades National Park

The Everglades National Park provides a robust selection of virtual experiences. The options include a 24/7 live wildlife webcam, short documentaries and educational videos, audio narrated virtual tours, and an official digital photography collection. The park website offers a free curriculum for distance learning programs as well.

Visit the Everglades .

50. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park

This online multimedia presentation guides virtual viewers through the islands and volcanoes of Hawaii. The experience includes audio, video, and panoramic photography of volcanic cliffs, caverns, and rainforests. Web visitors can also explore an active volcano by joining a digital helicopter flyover and watching an eruption from the 1950s.

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51. Table Mountain and Kruger National Park

South Africa has stunning national parks. Discover Africa enables visitors to explore the sights of South Africa via immersive video and interactive panoramic photography accompanied by narration. Virtual visitors choose from five attractions, including Cape Town’s Table Mountain and Northern South Africa’s epic Kruger nature preserve. The digital experience constitutes a virtual safari that lets viewers experience the country’s diverse landscapes.

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52. Mount Everest

This digital rendering allows website visitors to scale the peaks of Mount Everest from behind a screen. The website is a 3D geographic model of the mountain with clickable descriptions for key peaks. While many folks will never climb Everest in person, they can explore the range through this immersive cyber expedition.

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53. Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park

Phong Nha-Ke Bang in Vietnam contains one of the world’s largest caves alongside lush rainforests. Digital visitors trek through caves, viewing high resolution images and listening to realistic background sounds. The result is an immersive experience that simulates the sensation of navigating the caves in person.

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54. Zhāngjiājiè National Forest Park

For much of the world, Zhāngjiājiè National Forest Park in China is more recognizable by sight than by name. The park’s steep, wooded cliffs appear in movies like Avatar, and the landscape looks more like a film set than a natural occurrence. Website visitors navigate between explorable panoramic views to the sounds of instrumental music for a simultaneously captivating and calming web experience.

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55. Namib Desert

This digital tour of the Namib Desert in Southern Africa gives viewers birds eye perspectives of dunes, parched plains, and rolling mist, plus vast starry skies. The high quality, panoramic images constitute virtual hikes through the vast landscape, without the scorching heat of day or the freezing chill of night.

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56. Banff National Park

A remote tour of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada consists of dozens of 360* videos showing scenes like snowy canyons, serene lakes at sunset, and mountainous trails. Though short, the videos enable you to pause and take in the scenery, and watching the playlist gives online visitors the benefit of viewing the park during multiple seasons.

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57. Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre is a coastal region of Italy renowned for its colorful hillside houses. In this experience, online visitors take a panoramic photo tour of the coastline at various angles and times of days, set to a backdrop of calming music. The site also includes educational descriptions and an additional photo gallery.

Visit Cinque Terre .

List of virtual zoo tours

Here is a list of virtual zoos and aquariums that enable up-close online animal encounters.

58. San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo streams live cams of animals including polar bears, tigers, penguins, baboons, and koalas, and as well as hosting highlight archive footage of past panda cams. For a fee, the zoo also offers virtual programs that enable private online encounters with animals. The website also hosts an online directory of zoo animals and plants so that virtual visitors can learn more about the zoo’s exhibits from home.

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59. San Antonio Zoo

The San Antonio Zoo arranges online meetings between virtual visitors and animals like hippos, giraffes, and rhinos for $100. For an additional $50 fee, guests can add a question and answer session with a zookeeper. Experiences are available Tuesday through Saturday. The zoo also offers online educational workshops.

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60. Houston Zoo

The Houston Zoo website includes a variety of live webcams with stars such as rhinos, gorillas, flamingos, and elephants. Cameras are live between 7AM and 7PM CT. The zoo also advertises live virtual experiences including web conference meet and greets with animals and virtual scavenger hunts. Notable digital offerings include an animal painting experience where guests watch a creature create art and receive a copy in the mail afterwards, and a Cameo video greeting to send to a friend.

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61. Cincinnati Zoo

The Cincinnati Zoo offers a home safari consisting of videos recorded during Facebook Live streams. Website visitors can browse through over 50 animal encounters and learn facts about creatures like red pandas, parrots, zebras, and orangutans. Online modules also include activities such as homemade birdfeeders and balancing exercises so kids can participate more fully in the virtual experience.

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62. Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo streams live between 10AM and 4PM ET, showing off visitor favorites such as sea lions and lemurs. The zoo also books out virtual wild encounters with creatures like cheetahs, alpacas, sloths, and warthogs, for prices ranging from $80 to $150. Each session takes place over Zoom and allows virtual visitors to get up close to animals while asking caretakers questions.

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63. Alaska Zoo

The Alaska Zoo presents a distance learning experience through its virtual animal encounters and arctic discovery programs. Each session lasts approximately 45 minutes and costs $150. These experiences include interactive presentations and virtual visits with animals such as tigers, gray wolves, polar bears, or seals. A scheduled visit ensures the animals are unlikely to be camera-shy, creating a memorable and intimate online experience for students.

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64. Singapore Zoo

The Singapore Zoo proposes a variety of e-learning options designed to enrich virtual classrooms. The website modules sort experiences by grade level, making it easy to choose an experience appropriate for your classroom. Students can explore topics such as zoology careers, reptile habitats, and African wildlife.

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65. Oregon Zoo

The Oregon Zoo offers virtual encounters on platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and GoToMeeting. During these sessions, caregivers and animals such as armadillos, giraffes, elephants, sloths, and lemurs join virtual visitors for a 15 minute meet and greet. The two available daily time slots are at 10AM and 2PM PT.

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66. Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium hosts ten live webcams featuring critters such as penguins, jellyfish, sharks, and sea otters. The variety of exhibits means that teachers can switch between streams when a particular camera is not live. The aquarium also facilitates narrated feeding times on certain webcams during weekdays, with the feeding schedule posted on the site.

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67. National Aquarium (Baltimore)

The National Aquarium in Baltimore offers an interactive virtual map folks can navigate for an online tour. Virtual visitors can follow the arrows for a walk-through experience, or can click a menu of creatures like dolphins and sharks to instantly view anticipated animals. The aquarium website also hosts three 24/7 webcam livestreams , and offers guided virtual programs too.

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68. Georgia Virtual Aquarium

The Georgia Virtual Aquarium allows visitors to book a 10 to 20 minute guided online tour. Participants select a tour, receive viewing instructions via email, then enjoy up-close views of animals with educational insight. Participants get to view oceans, rivers, or sea creatures within an immersive virtual environment.

Visit Georgia Virtual Aquarium .

You may not be able to jet around the world at a moment’s notice. However, you can still visit famous parks, zoos, or museums by taking an engaging, interactive online virtual tour.

These online experiences enable you to stare as long as you like, avoid crowds, learn more about a subject or piece instantly, and enjoy other benefits. Not to mention, at home experiences are a great way to educate and teach children, coworkers, and yourself!

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Here are some of the common questions we see about virtual tours of museums, zoos and parks.

What are virtual tours?

Virtual tours are online galleries of famous attractions such as zoos, national parks, and museums. These experiences often consist of online exhibitions, videos, 360 degree and satellite photography, and virtual reality elements. Some tours may also include a facilitated live experience with a guide.

What are the best virtual tours?

The best virtual tours tend to include an interactive element. For example, the tour could be a live experience led by a guide and include trivia, polls, or other forms of engagement. These online tours are the best because they focus on the visitor experience.

How much do virtual tours cost?

Virtual tours are available at a variety of costs, ranging from free to $5 per person, $50 per person and upwards. We recommend starting with some of the free tours to see what your group likes and benefits most from. Then, you can invest in one of the paid options.

How do virtual tours work?

Virtual tours take place on online platforms such as Zoom, Google Street View, or custom software. Users login solo or as a group, and follow along with either a live or automated guide to learn about the tour stops.

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Oct 8, 2020 • 5 min read

The Sistine Chapel is just one wonder offering a virtual museum tour ©Rajesh Gathwala/500px

We live in an age of unprecedented access to digital technology – and with it, brand new ways of exploring the world around us.

While it's not quite the same as seeing, say, the Mona Lisa or Christ the Redeemer in person, some of the world’s most popular and remote destinations have created libraries of online images and video, as well as 360 degree virtual tours that let you virtually explore museums, galleries, world wonders and even national parks.

Here a just a few of the best digital tours that let you wander the world from wherever you may be social distancing.

See the seven wonders of the world

If there’s anything capable of whetting your appetite for world travel, it is the new seven wonders of the world:  the Great Wall of China , the ancient city of Petra , the Taj Mahal , the Colosseum , Machu Picchu , Christ the Redeemer , and Chichen Itza . Thankfully there are impressive virtual tours of each from The New York Times , AirPano , Google , and Panoramas .

With modern technology, you can even see the last standing wonder of the ancient world— The Pyramids of Giza . There are a few other wonders that might not make it into to the top seven but are still worth a digital peek, like the Alhambra , Seville's La Giralda , and even Easter Island.

Best virtual museum tours

In recent years, Google has partnered with over 2,5000 art museums to upload high-resolution versions of millions of pieces of art. Highlights include New York’s MoMA , DC’s National Gallery of Art , Chicago’s Art Institute , the Casa Battl ó, and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum to name a few.

In addition, The Louvre offers a virtual tour , as do The Vatican Museums , many of the Smithsonian Museums , the Russian Museum , the top-rated British Museum , the Minneapolis  Museum of Russian Art , and the Palace Museum in Beijing.

You may not be able to kiss the Blarney Stone right now, but you can tour the Blarney Castle from afar. You can also visit the Museum of Flight,  the Museum of Science, the Museum of Natural History,  the National Women's History Museum  and Boston's History of Science Museum .

While museums are often an inherently visual experience, there's a lot to be learned from archives of past lectures and tours like the ones preserved online by Nashville's Frist Museum , the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Smithsonian American Art Museum,  the Frick , and others.

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Explore national parks

While travel to National Parks is best avoided for the time being, you don't need to miss out on the scenery. Virtual Yosemite is absolutely stunning and one of the best, replete with audio. Both Yellowstone National Park and Mount Rushmore offer virtual tours as well. 

Google has similar 360 degree audio-visual tours of five select national parks, including Kenai Fjords, Hawai'i Volcanos , Carlsbad Caverns, Bryce Canyon , and Dry Tortugas, as well as 31 more on Google Earth . You can also get an up-close look at almost 4,000 pieces of artwork, artifacts, and other treasures related to the history and culture of the national parks, and view online exhibits .

Digital safaris

Wildlife is a big draw for travelers, whether it's sighting some of the Big Five in Africa, glimpsing whales in North America, or introducing your children to new animals in person on a family safari . But if you're forays into the bush are grounded for now, many zoos and aquariums have created digital access to their habitats.

You can easily watch several live webcams of some of the nation’s greatest zoos and aquariums, including the  San Diego Zoo , Houston Zoo , Zoo Atlanta , the Tennessee Aquarium , and the Georgia Aquarium . Additionally you can see Canadian farm animals doing their thing , or you could watch Stella the Dog jump endlessly into huge piles of Maine leaves.

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Virtual hiking

Thanks to panoramic video, you can get a really good idea of what a hike looks like well before you arrive at the trailhead. For example, you can experience all of the following top-rated hikes right now from your computer or tablet:  Bryce Canyon , Grand Canyon , GR20 , Inca Trail , and the death-defying Angel's Landing . For even more great hikes, simply YouTube one of Lonely Planet’s top 10 treks or any other hike that suits your fancy. Bonus points if you follow along during a workout to enhance the realism.

Famous landmarks

You can visit many wonders of nature, including the Amazon Rainforest , Iguazu Falls , the Komodo Islands , or Table Mountain , using virtual tours. Or you can explore the Statue of Liberty , the Sahara Desert , Niagara Falls , or even a guided tour of the Eiffel Tower . For even more virtual tours, search your bucket list of adventures with  AirPano , Google Earth , or YouTube .

Travel to outer space

The moon hasn't made it to Lonely Planet's Best In Travel list (yet!), and even without self-isolation and shelter-in-place measures for COVID-19, many of us may never travel to space. But thanks to technology, now is as good of a time as any to do so virtually. Before blasting off, considering touring some of NASA’s offices first. Then relive the last lunar missions and moon walks in stunning HD. Or take a virtual tour of Mars with the help of Google. 

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Construction sites are often chaotic, loud, and full of activity — not exactly places you’d typically like to visit and tour. Still, sometimes you’ll have a client who won’t be satisfied just with the project updates you send them. Instead, they’ll want to come and see how the construction is going first-hand, and it’s up to you to organize the tour.

In such a case, you might not be sure how to do that successfully. Is there a way to deliver a satisfying presentation with all the noise in the background? As it happens, there is, but you need some careful planning and thinking in advance.

Luckily, we’re here to help. With the following tips, you’ll be ready to wow your client and convince them that they put their faith in the right company and people!

1. Plan Well Ahead

Taking your client for a construction site tour without a plan is bound to end in disaster. After all, if you don’t know exactly what you want to show them and what you’ll need for the visit, your presentation will be confusing and unprofessional. Not just that, but you’ll waste a lot of time without achieving anything productive, and your client is sure to notice. So instead, sit down at least a week before the tour and carefully outline its various stages.

And what does that entail? Well, you should know the route you’ll be taking, what kind of work will be happening on that route, as well as what you should bring along. Consider your agenda for the day — are you trying to convey a particular message to your client? If so, organize your tour in such a way as to make that clear.

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2. Check the Weather

Typically, construction sites are out in the open, exposed to all sorts of elements. That means the success of your tour will largely depend on the weather, which is obviously something you can’t control. But what you can do is keep track of it in order to determine the best date for organizing a construction site visit.

It’s best to choose a warm, pleasant day with no extreme weather conditions. That way, both you and your client will be able to fully focus on the tour without trying to hide from the rain or shout over the wind. And that’s sure to make the whole visit more valuable and educational for both.

But the weather can be quite unpredictable, especially in specific regions and certain seasons. Thus, it would be wise to invest in a real-time weather monitoring tool so as to avoid any surprise storms that could ruin the experience.

3. Invest in a Wireless Audio System

As we’ve said before, construction sites are quite noisy. All the banging, shouting, and hammering make it hard to hear people talk to you. And you can’t expect all the activity to stop while you’re giving a tour to your client. That wouldn’t make much sense, either — your client is there to see the progress your workers are making, after all.

But how do you deliver a successful presentation in such an environment? Well, certainly not by shouting and hoping your client hears you. Instead, you should invest in wireless tour guide systems made specifically for situations like these.

A wireless tour guide system typically consists of a headset and a microphone for you and your clients. You can choose whether you want a one-way or two-way system, or, in other words, whether you prefer to give a presentation or have a discussion. With a system of this kind, you’ll be able to talk to your clients even in the noisiest of environments without having to stand right next to them. Just connect your devices and start speaking!

For a successful construction site tour, a tour guide system is an absolute must. It won’t just make things easier for you, but your clients will also be impressed with your resourcefulness. So don’t hesitate to get one of these devices as soon as possible!

4. Talk to the People on the Construction Site

Your construction site tour shouldn’t come as a surprise to your own workers. In fact, they should know in advance that you’re coming and bringing guests with you. Then, they’ll be able to organize their activities so that they don’t get in your way and vice versa.

Also, you definitely should notify your on-site project managers about the tour. They might even help you in its planning and point you to key areas you should visit. On top of that, they can prepare blueprints and documentation you might review with your visitors during the tour. That way, the whole tour will be smooth from start to finish with no hitches of any kind.

And if your employees know you’re giving a tour to important clients, they can get ready for any potential questions. With some preparation, their answers are sure to be much more accurate and concise, thus leaving a better impression on your clients.

In Conclusion

Organizing a successful construction site tour is by no means easy, but with some planning and investing in helpful gadgets, it’s not impossible either. In fact, if you get an opportunity to give your client a construction site tour, you should take it. In that way, you’ll show that you’re organized, professional, and responsible — just what your client needs.

Author: Rick Farrell, President, Plant-Tours.com

Rick is North America’s foremost expert in improving manufacturing group communication, education, training, and group hospitality processes. He has over 40 years of group hospitality experience, most recently serving as President of Plant-Tours.com for the last 18 years.  He has provided consulting services with the majority of Fortune 500 industrial corporations improving group communication dynamics of all types in manufacturing environments.

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There’s long, and then there’s “perform a very physical three-hour-plus concert 150ish times around the world throughout two calendar years.” The latter is where Taylor Swift finds herself, announcing onstage at her 100th Eras Tour performance that her December 2024 run in Vancouver, Canada will be the end of the tour.

While introducing the 10-minute extended version of “All Too Well” (speaking of long) Thursday evening in Liverpool during the first of her three planned shows there, Swift announced the news.

“You know, this is actually the 100th show of the show,” she said, saying that it “blows my mind.”

“This has definitely been the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life,” she said. But all good things must come to an end, or so we hear. “This is the very first time I’ve ever acknowledged to myself and admitted that this tour is gonna end in December,” she said. “Like, that’s it.

“And that feels like so far away from now,” she added. “But then again, it feels like we just played our first show on this tour. Because you have made this so much fun for us that we wanted to do a hundred shows, 150-something shows that we have on the whole tour.”

She went on to admit that “this tour has really become my entire life. Like, it’s taken over everything. I think I once had hobbies, but I don’t know what they were anymore. Because all I do when I’m not on stage is, like, sit at home and try to think of clever acoustic song mashups and think about what you might want to hear. So when I’m not on the stage, I’m dreaming about being back on the stage with you guys.” She thanked the fans for their effort and told them that “I appreciate every single ounce of effort that you put in to be with us.”

Notably, Swift has dropped the (Taylor’s Version) re-recordings of two of her older albums, Speak Now and 1989 , during the tour’s run, plus the super-sized 31-track album The Tortured Poets Department . Oh, and she released that record-breaking concert film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour . And she nabbed a historic fourth Album of the Year Grammy . That to-do list of hers has gotten plenty done, and there’s still time yet for more of the singer's signature surprises.

Though she sings in “Gorgeous” that she’ll “stumble on home to my cats,” Swifties know that there’s someone else the singer has been spending time with offstage, and he also has whiskers, despite being human. Swift stayed up late Thursday night to virtually join in on celebrations for boyfriend Travis Kelce as he and the Kansas City Chiefs accepted their latest championship hardware during the ring ceremony for their 2024 Super Bowl win. While Swift couldn’t do a repeat of February’s post-game celebrations (smooches, lip-sync serenades , and all), she hopped onto the Instagram Live cast of the ceremony to watch Kelce put a ring on it and dropped some choice all-caps comments in real-time.

“JOINING THE PARTY FROM LIVERPOOL LET’S GOOOOOOOO,” she commented on the stream, throwing in some “AHHHHHHH” and “YESSSSSSSS” to make her feelings clear. Eventually, she decided that it was time to get some sleep, presumably to prep for Friday night’s show and have those dreams about being onstage that she talked about. “Gotta go to sleep it’s so late here love you guys❣️❣️❣️,” she wrote in parting.

The Eras Tour continues its European run through August, before Swift takes a several-week break. In mid-October, she concludes the tour with stops in three U.S. cities, then a final jaunt to Canada to close out the run, which began in March 2023. Then, perhaps, she will rediscover her hobbies.

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Taylor Swift says 'Eras Tour' is officially ending in December

Taylor Swift performs on stage during during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Anfield on June 13, 2024, in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

It’s the end of an era for Taylor Swift.  

While playing her 100th show in Liverpool, England, the entertainer announced that "The Eras Tour" will officially end in December. 

Swift’s record-breaking world tour began in March 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, and has since hit multiple cities across the U.S. and around the world – becoming the first tour in history to surpass $1 billion in revenue and the highest-grossing tour of all time, according to Forbes.

Here’s what to know about the end of ‘The Eras Tour’:

‘The Eras Tour’ end date

Mysterious taylor swift dancer has fans going wild with theories.

Video shows a mysterious silhouette swaying along to Swift’s "Delicate" at her concert in Madrid. The dancer appears to be near the stadium’s roof, leading many to believe it was someone who had access to restricted areas.

Swift, 34, made the announcement on Thursday night to the concert crowd before singing "All Too Well."

"A lot of you are like, 'How are you going to celebrate the 100th show?'" Swift can be heard saying in fan footage . "The celebration of the 100th show for me means this is the very first time I've acknowledged to myself and admitted that this tour is going to end in December."

"That feels so far away from now, but then again, it feels like we just played our first show on this tour because you have made this so fun for us," Swift added.

Remaining Taylor Swift ‘Eras Tour’ North American dates

• Oct. 18, 2024: Miami, Hard Rock Stadium
• Oct. 19, 2024: Miami, Hard Rock Stadium
• Oct. 20, 2024: Miami, Hard Rock Stadium
• Oct. 25, 2024: New Orleans, Caesars Superdome
• Oct. 26, 2024: New Orleans, Caesars Superdome
• Oct. 27, 2024: New Orleans, Caesars Superdome
• Nov. 1, 2024: Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium
• Nov. 2, 2024: Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium
• Nov. 3, 2024: Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium
• Nov. 14, 2024: Toronto, Rogers Centre
• Nov. 15, 2024: Toronto, Rogers Centre
• Nov. 16, 2024: Toronto, Rogers Centre
• Nov. 21, 2024: Toronto, Rogers Centre
• Nov. 22, 2024: Toronto, Rogers Centre
• Nov. 23, 2024: Toronto, Rogers Centre
• Dec. 6, 2024: Vancouver, BC Place
• Dec. 7, 2024: Vancouver, BC Place
• Dec. 8, 2024: Vancouver, BC Place

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It was just like a scene out of a k-drama. Only months after Zev Rattet posted his first YouTube video in February, he received an invite from his favorite k-drama star to attend her world tour concert. Then he was invited on an all-expense-paid trip to Korea to visit some of his favorite k-drama sites. Rattet’s genuine enthusiasm for Korean content was so infectious it attracted the attention of Hallyu star IU—aka Lee Ji-eun—and others in the world of Korean media.

Since watching his first drama, Oh My Ghost , in 2017, Rattet has seen over 300 dramas and he’s encouraged friends and family to watch them. Something about his first k-drama resonated with him in a way he describes as instantaneous. “It was so emotionally on point. I felt so connected to them.”

He talked about dramas so often to his friends that one of them suggested he share his thoughts on YouTube. Rattet thought, why not, even though he figured nobody would watch. He was wrong.

“Who cares what this 76-year-old Jewish guy thinks about Korean dramas,” said Rattet. “I mean, nobody’s going to care, but I'll do it. Once I started to do it, I realized, I really like doing this.”

The friend interviewed him about his love of k-dramas, with the filmed segment becoming the first episode of Zev Does KDrama . Rattet and YouTube were the perfect fit and since Feb. 2024 he’s posted almost 400 videos reacting to Korean dramas, related music, concerts and behind-the-scenes footage. Part of the appeal for Rattet is the production quality.

“The production quality puts everyone else to shame,” he said. “Since probably 2016 Korean companies have achieved the kind of production quality you see in Hollywood. And it’s on TV. Before 2016, it wasn’t quite as good. The early stuff, the early 2000s, it’s not even close, but since then they’ve really invested in production quality, music, and the acting. It’s phenomenal. I think its the premier source of television and movie entertainment in the world. That's my point of view. Obviously.”

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Another selling point is the focus on love. Rattet remains an optimist and a romantic.

“I watch Korean dramas largely because I really love love stories,” said Rattet. “I love stories with powerful romances. But it’s more than that, they’re about powerful feelings of love. My favorite drama of all time is My Mister and that’s not a love story. It’s a story about love, about the power of love through friendship, through other relationships. That’s really an important theme that I see in Korean dramas, which you cannot find any longer in western dramas. Everything in western dramas, everything in western media now is cynical. Nobody does anything for altruistic reasons. I find that very depressing.”

It took a while to convince his wife to join him in watching dramas, but she eventually also became a fan. To screen out any dramas she might not like, he watches them first.

“I keep a list of every show I ever watched with my wife starting from the beginning,” said Rattet. “We watched 111 of them so far. If you think about the math, that’s an average 16 hours per episode, that's thousands of hours of watching with my wife since 2018.”

IU, shown here in the drama Hotel Del Luna, invited Rattet to her concert.

IU stars in two of his favorite dramas, My Mister and Hotel Del Luna After seeing her performance as a supernatural hotelier in Hotel Del Luna he wanted to watch her other dramas.

“I just looked at her on screen and I could tell she’s smart, she’s very clever, but she's also really kind,” said Rattet. “You could see it in her face. I really loved her. And so I went back and started looking for things she was in. When I saw her in the drama You Are The Best I learned she was also a singer.”

IU writes songs for her own solo career and for other performers, as well as music for films and dramas. She’s created several successful albums and collaborated with artists such as G-Dragon, Zico and BTS member V. Enchanted with her voice, Rattet began reviewing her music as well. He became known as Uaena Grandpa, since IU’s fans are known as uaenas.

“When she sang Forgotten Season in episode 35 of You Are Best, my jaw dropped. That is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard. That’s when I began to explore her as a singer. I’m getting chills just talking about it. As soon as I started to actually look for her music, I was blown away by her voice, the range, the charm that comes through in her voice and the quality of her lyrics.”

Being a fan has its rewards. Rattet spends hours every day posting about a subject he loves. The joy he derives from talking to fans is a happy surprise, but even more surprising was actually hearing from IU. She noticed one of his videos and extended an invitation to her upcoming concert tour, where he will have a chance to meet her. He might not have seen her invitation were it not for the way his follower count suddenly jumped overnight.

“I must have had a few thousand views and a few hundred subscribers,” said Rattet. “I had to believe most of them were my friends. Who else would subscribe? I didn't even think I knew that many people. I woke up one morning and I turned my computer on to see I have 150, 200,000 views and I suddenly have three or 4,000 subscribers. What’s going on? The comments on one of my videos said, she’s invited you. Have to look.”

It was an emotional moment. He asked his friend to rush over and capture his excited state on film. They woke up his wife who assumed it was a scam.

“I show her the Instagram message and she looks at me and she goes, ‘you’re not that great,” he said. “Of course, that’s my wife's sense of humor. I couldn’t stop laughing. Then I started gasping for breath.”

IU’s invitation attracted the attention of the Korean Tourism Organization, which organized a contest offering Hallyu fans a trip to Korea. They invited Rattet to come along

“They sent me something saying they had a special event in Korea in May,” said Rattet. “Would it be possible for me to go? And I said, I’d love to go. I mean, I've never been to Korea. It’s in my dream list of things I want to do.”

The dream became reality when he traveled to Korea in May, documenting aspects of his trip on YouTube. With a small group of winners he visited k-drama locations from Gyeongbukgang Palace to Namsan Tower and even visited a k-pop dance studio. He plans to visit Korea again in 2025, with his wife. How does she feel about his fascination with Korean media in general and IU in particular? She’s supportive but has her limits. She only permits pictures of IU on the first level of their three-level house. One day when his friend was filming him he asked why. Rattet joked that his wife is jealous and “thinks he’s going to run away with IU.”

“I turned to the camera and I said, IU, I’m happily married and you’ll always just be a granddaughter to me. And then I became Grandpa Uaena. Because that’s how I feel about her. I’m too old for her to be a daughter, right? She’d have to be the granddaughter. She’s the granddaughter I would dream of. I mean, really, I think she should be everybody's dream granddaughter. How could anybody be prouder of their grandchild?”

IU’s invitation landed Rattet’s story in several Korean newspapers and he was interviewed on Arirang TV. Having previously worked as a newspaper reporter, social worker, and as a software programmer, Rattet has retired, so he has plenty of time to watch and comment on k-dramas. He plans to continue sharing his happy obsession.

“I’m having a blast with it,” said Rattet. “I do this for love. I have not made a penny. The objective is not to make money. I'm doing this because I just love this stuff and I want the world to love it with me.”

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