ClikVacations.com Continues to Upgrade Visual Content Adding HotelView Virtual Tours; New Pact Follows Closely On the Heels of IPIX Agreement.Business Editors/Travel & Technology Writers FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2000 In a move to further solidify so·lid·i·fy v. so·lid·i·fied, so·lid·i·fy·ing, so·lid·i·fies v.tr. 1. To make solid, compact, or hard. 2. To make strong or united. v.intr. its position among the top travel web sites, ClikVacations.com has entered into an agreement with HotelView Corporation to significantly upgrade the visual content available to travel planners at http://www.clikvacations.com. Under terms of the agreement, visitors to ClikVacations.com now have the ability to take virtual tours Virtual Tours The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. The word panorama indicates an unbroken view, so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video of select hotels available for booking on the site in conjunction with vacation packages. A leading online resource for video tours of hotels and resorts, HotelView is the second major visual content provider that ClikVacations.com has formed a pact with in 2000, joining Interactive Pictures Corporation (IPIX IPIX Interface Processor for Imagery Exchange ), whose self-navigable 360 x 360 images began appearing on the site in March. "With the universe of travel web sites being so crowded and competitive, having content that is more advanced, more compelling and just plain better than the next guy helps us serve our customers more effectively than anyone else," said Georgianne Brown, President of ClikVacations.com. "Eventually, we'd like to give online travel planners the ultimate means for making the best, most-informed vacation purchasing decisions by having virtual tours available on each of our more than 11,000 hotels." Developed by New River Technologies, a Certified See certification. Vacations Group company and a leading provider of travel e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. services, ClikVacations.com specializes in all aspects of planning and purchasing leisure vacation travel online. ClikVacations.com combines live, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. and secure booking capabilities with dynamic content detailing a wide variety of destinations, hotel accommodations and types of vacation travel - cruises, vacation packages and intimate bed & breakfasts/country inns - enabling visitors to the site to select vacation experiences matching individual tastes and interests quickly and easily. For more information, visit ClikVacations.com at http://www.clikvacations.com |
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