Vivestia is an Online Reservation Platform in Greece that redefines the way luxury hotels and accommodations are presented. Through 3D Realistic Virtual Tours in each accommodation, the visitor can now explore in detail every floor and every room of his/her vacation’s residence and proceed to an instant booking. The VR tour minimizes visitor’s risk of online booking, while at the same time, allows the visitor to realize the aesthetics, and be reassured about the quality and the reliability of each accommodation. On the other hand, through Vivestia, owners can showcase their properties in the most memorable way of promotion, increasing the possibility of a booking. With a dual role, both to redefine the way vacation properties are displayed and to be a depository of 3D luxury accommodation models, Vivestia is an essential promotion solution where VR is the ultimate medium.

Vivestia realized that visitors find photos and videos inadequate in order to understand in detail the quality of a vacation rental accommodation. As photos can easily be modified and videos are directed to hide imperfections, visitors are more suspicious regarding what they see online in popular vacation rental platforms. This suspicion is what drives visitors to spend several hours browsing online to confirm that the accommodation they are considering is ideal and unique for their holidays. Apart from that, Vivestia has also identified that the great volume of photos available online for each property, makes it too difficult for the visitor to remember a property that caught their attention which can deter them from an instant booking. On the owners’ part, Vivestia has realized that the quality and prestige of the accommodation cannot easily be captured in photos and videos, while the size of the property is definitely an enigma in how it will be captured. At the same time, those who have already innovated and created a VR model, do not have a platform that can presented their VR model along with other accommodations that have innovated, with result that the model can be seen only if the visitor visits the individual page of each accommodation. Finally, we have noticed a gap in the cost of creating and maintaining VR models that has made their production very difficult so far.

Vivestia is a platform that serves as a marketplace for viewing and direct booking luxury vacation properties and hotels, which believes that a 3D Realistic Virtual Tour Model can not only give the visitor a safe choice of holiday accommodation, but it also offers an alternative and memorable way of choosing a vacation property without wasting hours to identify the ideal one. At the same time, Vivestia wants to enhance the promotion of tourist accommodation in Greece by giving the opportunity to their owners / managers, not only to create but also to massively display the three-dimensional models of their properties on a specialized platform. Thus, Vivestia aims not only to present accommodation through VR, but also to be an online depository of all the 3D models of luxury properties in Greece, offering subscription packages at attractive prices to motivate owners to innovate.