TOURISM

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AN EXPERIENCE TO REMEMBER

Visit Seattle and Airbnb are partnering to promote and broaden local-led Airbnb Experiences, which provide authentic, unique adventures for visitors.

Airbnb Experiences offer travelers unprecedented access to communities, places and activities they’d never have through traditional tourist travel, such as rowing through Seattle’s urban waterways with a Guinness World Record holder or visiting Ballard’s small neighborhood breweries with the director of a documentary about the local craft beer industry. With experiences and places to stay located throughout Seattle, Airbnb brings the economic benefits of tourism to neighborhoods that haven’t typically benefitted from visitor spending. visitseattle.org

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Zoo News

In 2019, Zoo Boise unveiled its 2.5-acre, $8.9 million expansion, that features a partnership with Gorongosa National Park in Africa. The Gorongosa expansion includes wild African dogs, baboons, Nile crocodiles, hyenas and much more. Proceeds from each zoo admission goes into a conservation fund supporting endangered species. More than $2 million has been donated to conservation to date.

Zoo Boise is available for private celebrations. Add-ons for events can include animal presentations or zookeeper chats, conservation cruises in the lagoon to the African Plains exhibit, giraffe encounters and unlimited carousel rides. zooboise.org

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AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A VR PARTY

GLOBAL DMC PARTNERS IS TEAMING UP WITH BALTI VIRTUAL IN NEW AR/VR OFFERING.

Global DMC Partners is bringing on Balti Virtual as one of its strategic alliances to provide a brand-new AR/VR program for meeting and event planner clients.

To launch this partnership, Global DMC Partners is debuting its new AR brand mascot, Global Girl or G.G. By downloading the free AppAR8 app from the iTunes app store or the Google Play store and scanning the Global DMC Partners logo, clients can take photos or video with G.G. and experience her repertoire of cultural dances.

“The goal of this partnership is to offer something new—augmented and virtual reality event experiences—to our clients around the world,” says Erin Rougeux, Global DMC Partners director of marketing and database management. “Balti Virtual’s capabilities are almost limitless when it comes to creating a custom AR or VR experience—whether it’s a virtual invitation to the event or a live AR event experience that includes a fun photo op.”

Global DMC Partners’ alliance with Balti Virtual will allow meeting professionals the opportunity to boost their next events with augmented reality invitations, reality photo ops, augmented 3D agendas, virtual augmented gifts and customized scavenger hunts.

“The opportunities are truly endless, so we see VR and AR becoming more and more prominent at events and conferences over the years,” Rougeux says. globaldmcpartners.com —Kassidy Tarala TOOLS»

MOVEBOOTH MAKES MEMORIES

Movebooth is connecting brands and people through their event-friendly photo station. BY SOPHIE JONSSON

Everyone’s looking for the perfect picture. At an event where you’re surrounded by friends, family or colleagues, everyone wants to capture a special moment. And since 2014, Movebooth has been helping people to do just that.

Movebooth is an iPad kiosk or selfie station that can be set up in five minutes to give participants digital keepsakes in forms such as photos, gifs or one-of-a-kind animations, all of which can then immediately go on an array of social and online platforms. The technology can be set up almost anywhere and works at any type of event, largely due to the endless creativity that users andevent organizers have in creating their own Movebooth experiences.

From use at birthday parties to NBA events, Movebooth users have the option to tailor the company’s software to the needs of their events through a variety of visual and copy customizations. Movebooth works with event planners and brand sponsors to make sure that the heart and soul of the event is displayed in the memories that are capturing it.

While Movebooth has been developing and refining its technology since 2014, Brice Gramm, founder and CEO of Movebooth, knows it’s all about the human connection that is happening. “Once people start taking photos with the Movebooth app, it’s smiles and laughs all around,” he says. With the unique branding for the event already in place, guests don’t have to do anything but get creative.

That laughter is also backed up with stats, with Movebooth earning a 97 percent overall satisfaction rating from its clients.

Movebooth offers multiple rental or purchasing options to best suit the needs of your event. Package options to pick from include rent, buy, or subscribe, all of which include a selfie station kit with an iPad, rolling hard case, and Movebooth Pro features for the duration of the rental or purchase period.

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