TourWrist wins the big enchilada of travel innovation with 360-degree video platform

November 14, 2012 By 4 Comments

Scooping $250,000 from General Catalyst Partners is clearly a rather nice way for TourWrist to end its involvement in this year’s Travel Innovation Summit at the PhoCusWright Conference.

The company, which actually launched back in the summer of 2010, showcased, and wowed the judges, with its virtual tour panoramic (known as pano) capture and viewer technology.

Other winners:

  • The DEMO Award for the Most Game-Changing Innovation: TourWrist
  • The 2012 Travel Innovation Summit People’s Choice Award: Rome2rio
  • The Most Innovative Startup Company: WeHostels
  • The Most Innovative Emerging Company: TourWrist
  • The Most Innovative Established Company: Tagman
  • The Most Innovative Business to Business Company: Tagman
  • The Most Innovative Businss to Consumer Company: Couchsurfing
Here is an example of TourWrist in action:

And here is what TourWrist did at the Tnooz Appy Hour this week:

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Kevin May About Kevin May

Kevin May is editor of Tnooz. He joined as a co-founder in August 2009 after spending nearly four years as editor of UK-based business publication Travolution.

Passionate about the business of travel and the internet, Kevin played a major role in establishing Travolution in print, online, events and with an annual awards programme, as well as becoming a regular speaker and moderator at industry events.

Prior to Travolution, Kevin was web editor at Media Week (UK) and also worked in regional newspapers for two years at the Essex Enquirer. He started his career in journalism at the Police Gazette at New Scotland Yard in London.

Comments

  1. Matt Zito says:
    November 15, 2012 at 4:19 pm

    Congrats TourWrist on winning a few awards at the PhocusWright conference. I really like your technology and can see multiple uses in the travel industry.

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  2. Keith Baumwald says:
    November 18, 2012 at 9:06 pm

    How is this the most innovative thing happening in travel?

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    • Kevin May Kevin May says:
      November 19, 2012 at 4:44 am

      @keith – that’s a v good question.

      It was a pretty decent and blue ribbon panel of judges [http://phocuswrightconference.com/travel-innovation-summit-judges-2012], so they obviously thought so…

      Equally it might say something about the competition it faced, too.

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  3. Jim Bauer says:
    November 28, 2012 at 3:46 am

    Ridiculous that this is even getting a smattering of attention. Virtual tours have been around for ages. Check out 360cities.net BTW they can’t patent virtual tours or their supposed revolutionary technology. It’s all hyperbole.

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