Travel Weekly profiles 3DHawaii.com

Monday, November 01, 2010

The premiere chronicler of the travel industry featured 3DHawaii.com in its Insight column published today.

Travel Weekly's Shane Nelson reported: "Travelers considering a visit to Hawaii can check out the Islands at a new website sure to offer a different perspective on the destination. Using Google Earth technology, the Honolulu-based company Team Vision Virtual created 3DHawaii.com, an online travel portal that lets users explore the state's attractions in 3D."

Team Vision Virtual CEO Craig Carapelho discussed several features of the site, including the private label option for clients who want the 3D technology for their own sites, and the added value 3DHawaii.com can bring to travel agents.

"It's the only site in the world right now where you can virtually explore a destination, so if agents are trying to sell Maui, they could show them Lahaina and everything there is to do there," Carapelho said. "They could show them hiking trails and all the hotels, restaurants, places to shop. ... I think for travel agents it's an amazing tool that will help them bring these things they're trying to sell to life..."

Read the story in Travel Weekly here »

About Team Vision Virtual

Honolulu-based Team Vision Virtual, Inc. specializes in the development of interactive destination portals where people can explore, discover and make purchases in a content-rich, 3D, virtual environment. Through an exclusive web publishing agreement with one of the largest contributors of 3D buildings on Google Earth™, TVV has published hundreds of high-quality 3D buildings throughout the Hawaiian Islands to create a virtual online destination, with additional structures in Las Vegas to launch soon. These 3D models appear on Google Earth™ as well as on TVV’s standalone web portals via the Google Earth™ API Plug-In, providing the opportunity for participants to be cost-effectively marketed to the world. This next generation online travel planning experience signals the virtual evolution of web business interactions.