About Geotour

Unveiling the land through Virtual Exploration

Welcome to GeoTour, a platform for discovering Crete. The name originates from the Greek word "geo" γῆ (gê) meaning "earth," reflecting our dedication to showcasing the island's captivating landscapes and rich heritage.

GeoTour will attempt to showcase much of the information as a virtual tour experience to help you Immerse yourself in the Cretan terrain, and virtually navigate charming villages and breathtaking cultural and natural wonders. This feature will also serve as an interactive method to explore our curated selection of listings.

Geotour share

The process integrates any website with the Geotour Crete API, allowing to display location-based information about Crete, including points of interest, beaches, villages, cultural sites, and more. Enhance your content, engage your visitors, and improve your site’s SEO with detailed, up-to-date information directly from Geotour.

Note that that there two methods that can work one for any website, but the process is more complicated, and one only for WordPress via a dedicated plugin.

Geotour approach

The Geotour platform offers listings of archaeological sites, villages, and other cultural attractions, all categorized and searchable. Users can filter listings by various criteria and view them on a map. Geotour also integrates with the SearchCulture repository to supplement many listings with additional cultural and historical context. The Virtual Tour (https://tour.geotour.gr) provides immersive, 360-degree views of the locations and an alternative way to navigate to the site and the related listings.

Geotour approach

The Geotour platform offers listings of archaeological sites, villages, and other cultural attractions, all categorized and searchable. Users can filter listings by various criteria and view them on a map. Geotour also integrates with the SearchCulture repository to supplement many listings with additional cultural and historical context. The Virtual Tour (https://tour.geotour.gr) provides immersive, 360-degree views of the locations and an alternative way to navigate to the site and the related listings.

Geotour stands for openess

The information and Geotour photos provided here are under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This means that the content can be shared and adapted for non-commercial purposes, with attribution required. This license was chosen because we believe that it is important to make our content accessible to as many people as possible. We also believe that it is important to give people the opportunity to reuse and adapt our content for their own purposes.