GAL/THM/2019/F/0041: Virtual Tour Website for Natural Heritage Site

This project outlines the development of a virtual tour website, focusing on providing an immersive experience for potential visitors to the Lankagama Natural Heritage Site. The assignment covers various aspects of website creation, including content preparation, web hosting, domain name registration, and utilizing Google Webmaster Tools for optimization. It emphasizes the benefits of virtual tours, such as enhanced user experience, emotional impact, and their effectiveness as a marketing tool for the tourism industry. The project also addresses strategies to increase website traffic, including canonicalization tags, keyword research, and advertising campaigns. The goal is to create a platform that promotes the heritage site, increases brand awareness, and encourages user engagement through a personalized and informative online experience. The project also discusses the significance of virtual tours for service industries and the role of these tours as a marketing tool.

INFORMATION TEHNOLOGY
Providing virtual tour with
webcasting

Making a Cool website
Cool website or award winning website is a very popular website
Among the other competitive websites.
● Prepare content of data to make virtual business website
● FindIng a web hosting company
● Choosing a proper domain name to it
● Registering new website with Google webmaster tools
● Use canonical tagst to specify your special duplicate URLs.
● Check servers, site details are corect ( server responese
404/301/302)
● Create an award section in the website.
● Add the vertul content and save them.

How to publish my website
● In my youtube chanels
● Instergram posts
● Facebook
● Travel brouchers

What is vertual tour
Vertual tour is a ponoramic presentation of the 3d images of a
particular environment which provide a live experience before going t
the place
this makes comstomers to rethink about the sites and make life-
changing experience even without going to see the site.

For one thing, 3D tours are more immersive. They can make your
visitors feel like they’re actually at the site, exploring every single
inch of it, especially if they’re viewing your tour through VR headsets.
And the more immersive an experience is, the more emotional it is,
and the longer your viewers are going to remember it. That should
translate to more donations too.

Thinking about the people who are going to be viewinng vertual tours,
Let’s imagine we part of an archaeological society, and we want to share
sites with people from all over the world. Your goal is to delight and educate
visitors, and encourage donations.
If you want to give your viewers an emotional experience, then a 3D virtual
tour would be best.

Adding Virtual tours about lanakaga heritage site will make unique
experience . So why is it imoprant specially in tourism industry?
Tourism and hosoitality industry is called as service industey. But as a
service industry, Hospitality and the leisure tourism has nothing tangible
The services offered by tourism are perishable, intangible and variyable.
So tours of lankagama heritage site are only an service experience we ca
get. We can not thouch it or store it as like a nomal product. When we lef
the site the service is ended at the same time.same as any user can see
the vedios and get an idea to their mind
Significance of making vertual tour website for
Lankagama Naural heritage site

so the virtual tours can be used as an advertising tool to promote
the naural heritage of the lankagama heritage site.
According to the USA Travel Association, 68% of people discover
things to do on Their trips online

it is an excellent social media marketing tool
social media platforms internet. so publishing links virtual tours of this
site, will help increase the brand awareness of the destination area.
Target marketing
it is very important Concept in marketing. virtual tours definitely help to
identify the target market. Ex. Sinharaja rain forest is positioned as world
heritage site in sri lanka. As This site also a prt of this forest it will be
positioned with good branded destination to travel.

more personalized experience
Vertual tours provide more personalized experience. each user can visit the
site without any guideance and make their buying dicisitions and plan the
trip.
potential buyers may have about think like visiting new animals, natural
floras, waterfalles by experiencing its scenic beauty and benefits.
Additionally, online viewers can zoom into certain aspects they’re interested
in which is one of the primary benefits of 360 virtual tours.

User experience is more and more momorable
When the user exploring the site more and more to experience vertual tour a
a life experience and it make user to recall and remind the site. that's why
virtual tours are such a important marketing tool. this will allow users to
make faster decisions.
Ex. User will search only about the nature fist but after that thay will be
search about the historical significance , travels, hotels , amneties around th
area.