‘Google Street View’ Trusted expert photographer, Felix Steck, was recently in Sri Lanka to shoot several images of Sri Lankan businesses for Google See Inside.
Felix Steck is an award-winning street view trusted photographer and has been identified as a top performer by Google. A German photographer with over 25 years of industry experience, he specialises in hotel photography and corporate identity, enabling virtual tours of spaces for digital walkthrough experiences. Steck has covered nearly all the photography of hotel conglomerate, Kempinski Hotel Group which operates 75 five-star hotels in 30 countries and is a founding member of the Global Hotel Alliance.
During his stint in Sri Lanka, Steck will photograph several leading hotels. Among them are Cinnamon Hotels such as Cinnamon Grand, Cinnamon Lake, Hikka Tranz, Cinnamon Bey, Cinnamon Wild, Cinnamon Lodge and Palm Paradise. In addition, leading corporate establishments such as MillenniumIT will also be photographed for Google See Inside.
Felix Steck was in Sri Lanka representing Avant Premiere for ‘Google See Inside’. Accompanying Steck around Sri Lanka were also photographers from Avant Premiere, the authorised service providers of ‘Google Street View’ in Sri Lanka. It was a further sharpening of their inherent skills as he shared his expertise and trained them on the job at every location across Sri Lanka.
‘Google See Inside’ offers the indoor version of ‘Google Street View’, inviting customers into the interiors of hotels, schools and other business establishments through the lens of a Google-Trusted photographer equipped to photograph business see inside interiors. Customers can now experience a location even before they arrive. ‘Google See Inside’ allows businesses to improve their business listing on the Google search engine and ensures greater visibility on Google Maps.
For hotels, ‘Google See Inside’ offers a strong advantage as a favourable first impression and selling point when travellers search for hotel recommendations. Customers can also embed the ‘Google See Inside’ virtual tour onto their site and use the professionally taken pictures for their business purposes. An immersive 360 degree interactive virtual experience produced by a third party such as this, helps commercial establishments foster a higher degree of confidence in a location / business by a customer and connect with them, showing what their business – be it a hospital, bar, school or restaurant – has to offer.
Avant Premiere, the authorised service providers for ‘Google Street View’ in Sri Lanka, helps businesses put their best foot forward on Google, showcasing their strengths through a virtual walk-through. Avant Premiere works with the world’s best photographers to ensure optimum quality photography through ‘Google See Inside’. Avant Premiere is the only ‘Google Street View’ agency in Sri Lanka that has covered more than 70,000 km of ‘A’ and ‘B’ roads in Sri Lanka which enables the general public to access the view of these roads virtually and has been engaged in varied aspects of event management.
The Company provides total event management solutions and brings together nearly 20 years of industry experience. Avant Premiere has also been official event management partners for Red Bull Sri Lanka and managed events such Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals 2013, Red Bull Ride My Wave 2014, Red Bull Kart Fight 2015 and upcoming World Surf League 2016 in Arugam Bay.
Photo caption: Google Street View’ Trusted expert photographer, Felix Steck