CampusTours Moves To Maine
Auburn, ME (November 26, 2001) CampusTours LLC announced today that it has acquired CampusTours.com (http://www.CampusTours.com) the Internet's central virtual college tour directory. CampusTours.com was previously part of the iCollege Web network that was acquired by Blackboard Inc. in 2000. Last year, more than two million students used CampusTours.com to enjoy the virtual tours of over eight hundred colleges and universities.
Virtual tours have become an essential component of college Web sites, providing many prospective students with their first glimpses of college. CampusTours has been at the forefront of this emerging trend since 1997, working with over eight hundred colleges and universities throughout the United States to promote, build and enhance virtual college tours.
CampusTours.com offers a unique promotional opportunity for universities, allowing them to reach millions of prospective students with official university information and tours. CampusTours also helps universities build and improve their tours, and encourages schools to retain tight control over how their institution is portrayed online. "We think that it's important for colleges to reach students directly with their message, and not have an intermediary Web site, guide book or ranking system telling them where to go to school," says Chris Carson, president of CampusTours. "CampusTours links students directly to virtual tours on the college Web site, and even when we author a virtual tour for an institution, we encourage them to maintain it on their own Web site."
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About CampusTours Inc.
CampusTours Inc. is an interactive media and software company specializing in meeting the marketing, Web and multimedia needs of the higher education community. The Productions division of CampusTours Inc. specializes in developing visually stimulating virtual tours, interactive campus maps that entice students and facilitate direct contacts with university audiences. The CampusTours MultiMedia Engine is currently the leading software application for producing and maintaining cutting edge virtual college tours, interactive campus maps, university timelines, guided presentations, interactive video presentations and alumni/development presentations.
CampusTours Inc. is the owner and operator of CampusTours.com, the Internet's central virtual college tour directory. CampusTours clients benefit from prominent exposure on CampusTours.com, receiving marketing, distribution lead-generation and promotion services for their new tours, admissions presentations, campus maps and Web sites.
CampusTours Inc. is based in Maine, and is privately held. For more information, visit www.CampusTours.com or call 207.753.0136.
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