Visites virtuelles en Normandie

My project is  to offer new experiences of cultural and touristic discoveries through quality virtual tours, led by a certified tour guide.

Thanks to digital technology, the visitor becomes en actor in his/her visit and the tour will consist of whatever aspects of culture, heritage or scenery that interest you. The visit becomes interactive, fun and enriched with the beauty of the area.

Thanks to this new form of virtual touring, a rich heritage and priceless cultural offerings become accessible to a greater number.

I have been a tour guide for 20 years. I have worked for tourist offices, museums, historical monuments, and with multiple tour-operators ... Since 2015, I have been a self-employed person and mainly work with river and sea cruise companies with a clientele that is 90% foreign.

I have noticed that the cultural sector has difficulty in attracting new audiences. The traditional guided tour attracts primarily one category of people. So I want to reach out and find those who do not have access to traditional tours. They may live too far awayor they may have limited mobility. For some, it has been too expensive, too elitist or just not attractive enough.

I would like to make our rich French heritage accessible and attractive to as many people as possible.

I am also a storyteller and writing workshop facilitator, and these skills that help to bring history alive, give meaningful ways to understanding it.

What leads me to develop this project is my current situation. The health crisis destroyed my activity. Deprived of foreign tourists during the lockdown and again until next year, I decided to bounce back. First, I created an identity with a name and a logo: Sandrine peregrine, then a website.

I have been training with the CulturMoov company which offer virtual tours. I am currently continuing with this training. This approach makes our rich culture assessable virtually.

My objective is to connect the beautiful heritage sites of my home territory, Normandy (more precisely the Seine Valley) to its public, I will approach local communities, in France  to present them  with my project . I will also talk with foreign tour-operators about my ideas sot hey can promote it to their customers.

At the same time, during the winter season, I continue to train myself in new technologies. There will be a long process of preparing the content in order to be able to offer virtual tours in the spring 2021.