{"id":24220,"date":"2016-04-04T06:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=24220"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:32:31","slug":"how-virtual-reality-is-about-to-transform-the-travel-industry-by-neil-hughes-linkedin-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/how-virtual-reality-is-about-to-transform-the-travel-industry-by-neil-hughes-linkedin-pulse","title":{"rendered":"How Virtual Reality Is About to Transform the Travel Industry \u2014 By Neil Hughes | LinkedIn Pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAATQAAAAJGUyMjUwNTRhLTZmMTUtNDEyOS1iOThhLTYzMTA3ZWUzYjg4Mg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel agencies have struggled to bring people back into their stores over the last few years thanks to the Internet. In the UK and Belgium, however, one of Europe\u2019s biggest tour operators <a href=\"http:\/\/visualise.com\/case-study\/thomas-cook-virtual-holiday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thomas Cook<\/a> rolled out Samsung Gear VR headsets in a bid to entice customers back into its stores by offering to bring dream vacation destinations to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/how-virtual-reality-transform-travel-industry-neil-hughes?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTravel agencies have struggled to bring people back into their stores over the last few years thanks to the Internet. In the UK and Belgium, however, one of Europe\u2019s biggest tour operators Thomas Cook rolled out Samsung Gear VR headsets in a bid to entice customers back into its stores by offering to bring dream [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42793,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24220\/revisions\/42793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}