TUI offers innovative customer experiences with Matterport digital twins

London, 20th February 2020: TUI UK, the UK’s number one holiday provider, has announced the adoption of 3D digital twins from leading spatial data company, Matterport. 

The technology will be used to offer an immersive and transparent booking experience, initially for nine of its TUI SENSATORI hotels.  TUI will later utilise Matterport technology to create 3D digital twins across its wider portfolio.

TUI SENSATORI is a sub brand that offers luxury holidays designed to fuel the senses.

The 3D captures, which were taken with a Matterport Pro2 camera, were completed over a six-week period. The digital twins are fully comprehensive, providing data and visual representation across every part of each of the nine hotels, with over 240 spaces captured.

TUI has embraced Matterport technology in order to increase content accuracy on their website, create more innovative and interactive content and to provide an unparalleled level of transparency for their customers. The Matterport digital twins will also serve to provide more versatile content for internal and external uses, which could include reporting, documentation and facilities management, alongside marketing and to increase the customer experience.

Rebecca Williams, Photography & Video Product Manager at TUI said that: “Our customers are becoming increasingly more tech savvy and demanding more transparency when they look to book a holiday. Matterport technology is a great solution to this, providing state of the art digital twins that provide a true representation of the hotels. TUI SENSATORI is our luxury collection, and with Matterport technology our customers are able to effectively immerse themselves in these resorts. The technology is a refreshing change from the fisheye lens that is often used in hotel photography.”

“Whilst marketing and accurate representation is hugely important for our business, Matterport’s digital twins also help with wayfinding, hotel management and documentation. As a company we are committed to embracing tech solutions which provide transparency and efficiency for our customers.”

Visit a TUI SENSATORI digital twin HERE.

James Morris-Manuel, EMEA VP and MD at Matterport said: “TUI is an incredible brand within the travel and hospitality sector, with an important focus on customer service. As technology becomes increasingly more important in the sector, due to changing customer habits, TUI has been extremely responsive to changing trends. The ability to capture digital twins of real-world spaces is an extremely powerful tool. Matterport technology is a great way for TUI to engage its customers with the TUI SENSATORI brand. We look forward to working with them to introduce this service to their customers now and with further engagement in the future.”

Matterport is the only platform that creates true 3D digital twins of the built environment. It offers professional-grade capture devices, including the Matterport Pro2 3D scanner and Matterport-compatible Leica BLK360, as well as compatibility with 360-degree cameras, including Ricoh Theta V, Ricoh Theta Z1 and Insta360 ONE X. Once a space is captured, Matterport’s Cloud 3.0 software enables anyone to easily create a 3D digital twin.

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About Matterport

 Matterport is the leading spatial data company digitising and indexing the built world. Its unique 3D capture technology creates the spatial data layer on which the industry can interoperate, and the company’s all-in-one 3D data platform makes it fast and easy to turn any physical space into an accurate and immersive digital twin. The Matterport platform helps customers realise the full potential of a space at every stage of its lifecycle including planning, construction, appraisal, marketing, and operations. Learn more at matterport.com. 

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TUI UK & IRELAND

TUI UK and Ireland has a team of more than 10,000 employees and serves over six million customers each year. As part of TUI Group, it is the business behind the TUI, First Choice, Marella Cruises and Crystal Ski Holidays brands, as well as TUI Lakes & Mountains, TUI Tours and TUI River Cruises. Sub brands include TUI SENSATORI and TUI BLUE.

Its airline, TUI Airways operates to over 88 destinations in 30 countries. It was the first airline in the UK to take delivery of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.