Eagles Nest Resort Partners with XVenture in use of Virtual Reality to Showcase Property.
Media Release
Tuesday 4th October 2022
Six-star New Zealand resort Eagles Nest today launched its unique virtual reality hub enabling potential customers and partners to access a fully immersive online experience which highlights the property’s breathtaking location, facilities, and services. Located in the stunning Bay of Islands, Eagles Nest worked with leading virtual reality experience creator, XVenture, to provide a global first of its kind immersive customer experience which sets a new luxury travel industry standard.
Accessible via the Eagles Nest website and guided using a state-of-the-art dashboard, the virtual reality 360-degree world allows the user the option to intimately explore all aspects of the resort, including the individual villas, pool, surrounding landscape and environs, as well as the local wildlife and many incredible experiences on offer. The virtual reality world also offers a built-in booking gateway for maximum customer ease.
General Manager Adam Howard says the resort is thrilled to be able to offer potential customers and industry partners a virtual experience that mirrors real life and gives Eagles Nest an industry leading advantage.
“Partnering with XVenture, who are world leaders in building truly immersive and compelling virtual world experiences, has enabled us to be able to offer the ultimate ‘try before you buy’ experience to those discerning people and organisations out there that are seeking that unparalleled Eagles Nest experience.
“One of our most valuable attributes as a luxury travel destination is our remote location in New Zealand and the pristine landscape, flora and fauna we have here. However, that same distance has its challenges when marketing your property internationally and we believe that offering a virtual reality experience really sets Eagles Nest apart and gives us an advantage. It truly allows customers and potential partners to purchase or engage with absolute confidence and certainty. We know they will love it once they get here, however, this ability to experience what we have to offer makes for a totally stress-free purchasing experience.”
Daniela Kraus, Director and New Zealand CEO at XVenture said: “Having experienced our work firsthand as the set for our TV series [XVenture Family Challenge], we were delighted when Eagles Nest approached us to come back and to create something that would really set a new standard for the luxury travel sector. This is our first foray into the travel and tourism sector, and it is a perfect fit with our extensive expertise in creating compelling immersive desktop-based virtual reality experiences. We feel that this will give Eagles Nest a significant commercial advantage and really set them apart from other luxury travel offerings. It obviously helps when you are dealing with a world-class location and property whose beauty is spellbinding. You really want to be immersed in it and the only thing better is actually being there!”
XVenture was founded by Mike Conway, a renowned business leader and expert in the creation and delivery of immersive, experiential, and high-performance individual and team learning programs. The use of virtual reality in the XVenture team’s work is not new, but the pandemic presented a unique opportunity to combine the technology with learning expertise backed by behavioural science and broaden its application. XVenture now create, build, and deliver immersive learning experiences driven by VR across several industries and for various applications including employee onboarding and training, ecommerce, and customer brand experiences.
Look at the Eagles Nest virtual world! Click HERE