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  • Social Bee Adventures Launches Its Augmented Reality Travel Platform

    Social Bee Adventures Launches Its Augmented Reality Travel Platform

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    Social Bee Adventures aims to revolutionize the tourism industry by using its proprietary augmented reality and mapping technologies to provide self-guided (contactless) tours indoors or outdoors

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    updated: Aug 10, 2021


    SEATTLE, August 10, 2021 (Newswire.com)
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    Social Bee Adventures, an app showcasing augmented reality in tourism and travel spaces, is leveraging technology to offer self-guided guided tours. While the underlying technology is complex, the idea is simple. The app allows creators to build step-by-step tours, scavenger hunts, and all-around adventures in augmented reality that consumers can then use, through the app, when it’s convenient for them. An experience in Social Bee Adventures consists of points of interest, trivia, photo, video and audio activities that can be placed indoors or outdoors. Consumers can gain points and see where they rank for the experience on the experiences leaderboard on the app. Creators can offer their experiences free of charge or charge a fee. 

    First, creators use the Social Bee Adventures app to create their experience — a tour of a city or neighborhood, a hike, a scavenger hunt, an event, and much more. Once complete, the creator publishes their experience and consumers can find and purchase the experience from the app and go on the self-guided tour when it’s convenient for them using Social Bee’s gamified augmented reality platform.  

    Travel and tour guides specifically have been hit hard by the pandemic. Social Bee Adventures provides a contactless option that allows tour guides to build their tour experiences and monetize whenever an app user consumes it. Social Bee Adventures provides new revenue streams for those greatly affected by the pandemic, while helping to protect the industry from future hardships. 

    Social media platforms do little to get people out exploring the world. As most social platforms’ goal is to keep users inside, increasing digital screen time, Social Bee Adventures helps users 1. find fun and local activities and experiences and 2. guides them step-by-step through the experience.

    “My goal is to use technology to get people out into the real world, to make learning and exploring as fun and engaging as playing video games, and to create deeper and more meaningful connections with the world around us and the people we share it with,” says founder Jason LaBaw. “I want to invite all the experienced creators, tour guides, travel bloggers — the one friend in the group who always sets the itinerary and makes sure the trip is filled with fun. Join us in creating amazing experiences and sharing them with the rest of the world.” 

    About the company

    Social Bee Adventures is a platform consisting of an eCommerce website and iOS app, on a mission to revolutionize the tourism industry by using its proprietary augmented reality and mapping technologies to provide contactless tours indoors or outdoors. 

    To learn more, visit socialbee.me.

    CONTACT

    Name: Sjoerd Martens

    Phone: 1-646-480-0356

    Email: sjoerd@publicize.co

    Source: Social Bee Adventures

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  • Gopackup Just Launched 6 of the World’s Most Wonderful & Weird Tours

    Gopackup Just Launched 6 of the World’s Most Wonderful & Weird Tours

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    updated: Sep 18, 2017


    SANTA CLARA, California, September 18, 2017 (Newswire.com)
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    The world is beautiful because of all its differences: different people, different cultures, different religions, different foods and lifestyles, different colors. The more one travels; the more beauty, one will discover. This has always been the mission that Gopackup holds, by encouraging people to travel to bring more understanding to the world among different people at different places.

    Here are 6 of the world’s most wonderful and weird experiences:

    1. Communist Moscow

    For more than 70 years, Moscow was the capital of the huge Soviet Empire. The streets of the city are still full of remnants of the communist regime and the Cold War, and the fearsome Soviet strongholds still guard the young democracy in Russia.

    Take the Communist Moscow tour to experience this period of history and see the infamous headquarters of KGB on Lubyanka and Moscow Militia on Petrovka, the museum of the Gulag concentration camp system, and other important Soviet sights in the center of the city.

    2. Perfume Workshop Singapore

    Everyone likes to be different with a unique style and even smell. This interesting workshop in Singapore explores perfume and how one creates and matches a perfume to an individual.

    Through this workshop, people can create their own Signature Scent or make a perfect gift for a loved one. Participants will take a personality test and match their ingredients, to make a perfume that matches the best. During this workshop, participants will make 10ml x 3 travel size + 75ml hand polished crystal bottle to take home. The smell will be a reminder of a perfect trip even after being home. Do not miss it!

    3. Venice Rowing Lessons

    Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork. The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site. Venice has been known as the “City of Water”.

    During this tour,  row the Venetian way, see Venice from the water, experience an ancient tradition, and see Venice off the beaten track.  A gondolier is a Venetian boatman who propels a gondola, which has become an important part of Venice scenery. Take a lesson with a professional rower in a regular rowing boat. To actually be able to row the gondola is a unique experience.

    Venetian rowing uses a very special technique, which calls to mind the image of a graceful and elegant gondolier. Experience the magic of sitting blissfully on the city’s waterways and becoming an active part of Venetian culture.

    This tour allows participants to enjoy the beauty of Venice from a different perspective by taking part in the city’s age-old traditions, but also participants will be able to build a greater awareness of the Venetian atmosphere and heritage. 

    4. Zhouzhuang Water Town Tour

    Besides Venice, China has several water cities, and Zhouzhuang is one of them. If travelers would like to explore Zhouzhuang, one of China’s prettiest water towns, participants will experience a much different lifestyle. Experience a private day trip through this city’s historic streets and sinuous bridges before participants ride a rickshaw around Suzhou’s historic Pingjiang Road quarter. See what gained this historic city the title ‘Venice of the East’.

    The Chinese value Zhouzhuang for its cultural heritage, ancient residential buildings, elegant watery views, and colorful local traditions and customs. Enjoy dazzling views of antique stone houses reflected in tranquil waters as participants stroll its historic streets with participants’ guide, and capture shots of vistas including the Twin Bridges, Shide and Yongan.

    After returning to Suzhou, participants will visit Pingjiang Road, which is beside a narrow canal. Accompanied by a local guide, enjoy a rickshaw tour of the quarter that surrounds it. Participants will pass through a vegetable market, historic streets, and traditional buildings and see locals going about their business as participants’ guide explains the role that canals played in Suzhou’s history.

    5. Low Head Penguin Tour

    The penguins found in Tasmania are the smallest of the penguin species, the noisiest, and also the only penguins with blue and white feathers (all others are black and white). Because of this, they have several names, the Little Penguin, the Blue Penguin, but the most common name they are called is the Fairy Penguin.

    Low Head Penguin Tours offer a unique nature experience to get up close and personal with these penguins as they return from the pristine waters of Bass Straight to nest in their burrows within the Low Head Coastal Reserve. This Reserve has the largest penguin rookery in Tasmania, and there are penguins returning every night throughout the year. Watch them swim to the surface, stand up and preen themselves before waddling up the beach.

    6. Hilarious Rave Reviewed Drag Queen Comedy Tour 

    Why travelers love this tour: It is a comedy show, a pub crawl, and a walking tour (parody)! It is hosted by Drag Queen Glace Chase.  Some people who attended before claimed that “It’s like a cross between ‘This American Life’ and ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ staged as a meandering, somewhat drunken walking tour”; someone also said that it is “One of the most hilarious experiences of my entire life”.

    Trek the wild Greenwich Village streets with Glace and celebrate the larger than life personalities- both gay and straight- that paved the way for today’s liberation. This rave reviewed tour will make participants laughing hysterically one moment and then crying the next in “the most unique tour travelers will ever go on.” Meet in a bar for a pre-tour drink and then just…FOLLOW THE SHOE!

    Explore more fun and interesting tours/experiences at Gopackup.com

    Source: https://gopackup.com/

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