Pantelleria: Tourism and Second Life

Tourism marries Second Life and becomes a protagonist of the virtual reality by promoting a new way to travel safely and pleasantly.

As a matter of facts, a few days ago a scandal hit the Lonely Planet, the famous publishing house that prints tour guides. One of its authors, Thomas Kohnstamm, did indeed admit that the guide for Columbia had been written without visiting Colombia at any time and he excused that because of  the short economic resources that Lonely Planet itself placed at his disposal for the drawing up of it.

Such news bore out the opinion of tour operators, already in search of a new way of dealing with their business, who decided to start using Second Life as a means of spreading tourism news and information.

The opportunity to visit a real place through the virtual reality of Second Life spurred many sector corporations to imagine and create a new way to manage tourism. 3D information reach out the potential customers or visitors through faithful reproductions of hotels, campsites, bathing establishments or even city-squares, museums and parts of towns: no doubt that we are facing the new van of international tourism.

The most interesting and highest enterprise in the tourism sector during the last months, comes directly from Italy: we are talking about the fine exact reproduction of Pantelleria, the fine island situated off Sicily, in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. Property of the same group that manages  the land “La Cittadella”, a company which had by now imposed itself on a world  scale on Second Life: the Island offers  any resident of Second Life the chance to visit one of the most beautiful treasures of the “mare nostrum”, just comfortably sitting in front of their computer’s screens.

This new way of tour offers many remarkable advantages. First of all, with this easy virtual tour, besides the beauties of the tourist resort he is going to stay in, the potential costumer will be able to preview, right to the tiniest details, the suite, the room or the camping site that he is going to book. As well as practical, it is also a cheap way to make tourist-business: neither the initial investment nor the charges for the upkeep of  such a virtual structure on Second Life imply such an high cost that could dissuade the entry in the metaverse. Moreover such an advertising surely has a great visual impact: scrutinizing leaflets, pamphlets and web sites in order to choose the destination of a trip can be useful but it is surely far from having the chance to visit the resort itself with your own avatar in Second Life, wander in the hotel you are going to book, walk in the city lanes; that gives you a much clearer idea and impression of what you are about to buy.

La Cittadella, that strongly believes in this project and in this new outlook of tourism business, offers, besides the virtual “copy” of the Pantelleria Island, the faithful reproduction of two hotels of the isle,  “La Suite di Venere” (http://www.suitedivenere.com) and the “Gold Pantelleria Club Levante” (http://www.pantelleriagold.com).

Both these structures, which reproduce their corresponding buildings even in the tiniest details, roused the interest and the curiosity of many Second Life residents; this interest has quickly moved into a true considerable request of news, and a lot of people want to be acquainted with all the information on real-world-stays on the isle. That confirms once more that La Cittadella is a reliable company, able to use the opportunities of new technologies at best.

Therefore, we are glad to invite you to visit the virtual and the real Pantelleria and discover how easy and funny it is, to be play a leading role in your tourism – choices but above all in order to be useful for the reduction in price of 10% for every reserved stay real life through second life.

It does not remain to us that invitarvi therefore to visit Pantelleria in order to discover like or simple and funny to be protagonists of your tourist choices but above all in order to be useful for the reduction in price of 10% for every reserved stay real life through second life.

 

 

 

Contact:

inworld: Pantelleria

inworld: IM a Jacopo Lilliehook

web site: www.suitedivenere.com

web site: www.pantelleriagold.com

La Cittadella

Get into the future through the front door: get in Second Life with your company!

La Cittadella has been over a long time in Second Life most-visited-places ordered for traffic volume. This extraordinary reality, that had been calling more than 450000 visits in the arc of 60 days, is in a position to offer a valid support to your business, through innovative and revolutionary instruments. Restyle and renew your brand image and widen your business appealing to our public, that is continuously increasing!

We offer you the opportunity to:

- SHOW OFF YOUR IMAGE AND YOUR BRAND ON THE WORLD MARKET.

Our business is mainly Italian, but there is also a big presence of foreign users coming from other European Union countries, from the United States of America and some less users from South America and Asia.

- GIVE OUT YOUR LEAFLET OR YOUR COMPANY REVIEW.

We are able to deal out the e-version of your publications: reviews, magazines, brochures, leaflets etc.

-  ADD AN “IN WORLD” LINK ON YOUR WEB SITE AND SUPPLY YOU REAL CONTACT.

We can lead our e-traffic on your Web Site, so that it will directly reach you reality

- ADVERTISE YOUR COMPANY AND YOUR SERVICES ON OUR LARGE-SCALE-ISSUANCE MAGAZINE.

 

Our double-language (Italian and English) review is handed out also far from La Cittadella’s virtual space, for instance in our Partner’s Land: that widens our already huge public and makes your brand travel all around the world

- OPEN A VIRTUAL SHOP TO SUPPORT YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH THE RMOTE SALE.

Buy or rent a place to show your brand and advertise your enterprise: we will supply all the necessary assistance for the performing of the construction. We are also able to train your staff in the use of the SL client: the company will then, in a short time,  be able to avail itself of a team of promoter avatars who can come into direct contact with the customers from all over the world and sell both real products and their 3d reproductions!

If you prefer, we can place our trained staff at your disposal.

- MAKE YOU “FIELD TEST” WITH US.

You can avail yourself of the great number of users of La Cittadella to make polls, surveys, to develop new products or to test the popularity of your new services

- CREATE A MEETING POINT TO MEET POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS.

We perform your company’s virtual seat, where you will be able to place your conference room and plan meetings, presentations and press conferences. You are going to do all this only using the aids that Second Life places at your disposal: videos, text and voice chats. You will be able to reach and be reached by your customers from all over the world and to keep in touch with them!

- ARRANGE EVENTS MADE TO MEASURE FOR YOU.

We plan and perform for you every kind of event: exhibitions, fairs, auctions, parties, concerts or competitions with prizes, which you can get known through and that will promote your new services or products! You will be able to offer your customer new and original experiences to live, and to give your company the opportunity to increase its business.

- CREATE YOUR ADVERTISING WITH US.

We arrange photo and video sessions for you, with high quality images and a brand new appeal, which you can use both in Second Life and in the real world!

- SELL YOUR VIRTUAL PRODUCT.

Thanks to the amount of users that come to visit us, we give you the chance to sell your in-pixel version of your products, and to virtually offer your services, so as to improve your business and act as a link between real and virtual world.

- SHOW OFF DURING OUR ADVERTISING TIMES BOTH IN THE METAVERSE AND IN REAL TV.

At the present time we host in La Cittadella some events, like the Italian “Celebrity survivor!”, that are directly linked to the real TV program.

- SAVE UP THE MONEY FOR USUAL REAL ADVERTISING.

Your company’s presence in La Cittadella is noticeably cheaper than your out-of-SL advertising

- UNAMBIGUOUSLY CHECK THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE SUBJECT TO THE ADVERTISING.

Contrary to what happens with real-world advertising, it is in Second Life possible to know the exact number of received visits.

All this and much more, that’s what Second Life is! Do not miss the opportunity to join an innovative and expanding business and to win you at once customer form all over the world!

The La Cittadella staff is at your complete disposal for information or consultations.

Contact:

in world: IM a Maxes Loon

e-mail: maxesloon@hotmail.it

web site: http://www.la-cittadella.com

Second Life and publishing

L’editoria guarda con interesse verso Second Life cercando di cogliere i vantaggi che da essa possono derivare.

La New Links, azienda leader nel settore editoriale, ha infatti sperimentato la versatilità della realtà virtuale per il lancio di un nuovo progetto rivolto alle giovanissime: Evelyn Magazine.

Il primo numero di questo nuovo magazine propone, come tanti altri del suo genere, diverse sezioni dedicate al mondo di Evelyn con giochi, letture e molto altro ancora; una in particolare ha però colpito la nostra attenzione: la sezione Evelyn Story.

Quest’ultima infatti, è stata realizzate interamente in Second Life. Partendo infatti, dalla costruzione sia delle ambientazioni scenografiche e della creazione del personaggio Evelyn in qualità di avatar, si è arrivati alla realizzazione una piccola storia a fumetti utilizzando le foto scattate inworld.

Il risultato di tale lavoro, riportato per intero nelle pagine successive del nostro magazine, ha ottenuto un notevole riscontro positivo, tale da giustificare seriamente che questo possa essere un altro metodo di utilizzo della piattaforma di Second Life nella produzione di prodotti per la real life; non ci stupirebbe osservare infatti in futuro la realizzazione di altri progetti come Evelyn Magazine e magari anche in formato audiovisivo.