Leisure
Swimming Pools / Gyms / Sports Facilities / Spas
Virtual Tours for Leisure Centres, Gyms & Sports Facilities
Interactive 3D tours to showcase your leisure venue with confidence and clarity.
In today’s digital-first world, most people research before they visit—and when it comes to leisure centres, gyms, pools, and sports facilities, first impressions start online.
At Virtual Tours North East, we create immersive 3D virtual tours using the Matterport Pro3 system, allowing your customers to explore your space online 24/7. Whether you manage a public pool, private gym, or large multi-purpose leisure facility, a virtual tour helps you stand out, engage visitors, and build trust.
Benefits
A Matterport virtual tour can provide a wide range of benefits to your swimming pool facility and gym
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Help Visitors Know What to Expect
For many people—especially newcomers, families, or individuals with accessibility needs—visiting a new fitness or leisure facility can feel overwhelming. A 3D virtual tour helps them:
✅ Understand the layout and flow of your space
✅ Preview changing areas, studios, and equipment zones
✅ Locate access points, lockers, lifts, or quiet spaces
✅ Feel confident and reassured before their first visit
By answering these questions in advance, you improve the customer experience before they even arrive.
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Boost Bookings and Memberships
Our Matterport virtual tours are designed to:
✅ Increase sign-ups and enquiries
✅ Improve conversion from website visitors to paying customers
✅ Keep visitors on your site longer (great for SEO)
✅ Provide a modern, interactive edge to your marketing
They’re perfect for:
✅ Health clubs and gyms
✅ Swimming pools and spas
✅ Dance and yoga studios
✅ Sports halls and activity centres
✅ Indoor play spaces and climbing centres
✅ Functions
Tours can be embedded into your website, shared on social media, or linked in newsletters and booking systems.
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Support Compliance, Safety and Training
Staff Induction & Training
✅ Use your tour as a visual walkthrough for new or seasonal staff
✅ Highlight safety zones, first aid kits, emergency exits, and equipment
✅ Onboard instructors and team members remotely
Health & Safety and Risk Assessments
✅ Map out fire escape routes and evacuation points
✅ Record how equipment or high-traffic areas are spaced
✅ Identify layout changes or improvement opportunities
Venue Hire & Group Booking Support
✅ Share your venue layout with event planners or schools
✅ Showcase multi-use spaces for classes, parties, or external bookings
✅ Help third-party partners visualise logistics before they arrive
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Improve Accessibility, Transparency and Brand Trust
A virtual tour shows your facility exactly as it is. That’s valuable for:
✅ Parents researching safe, welcoming spaces for children
✅ Disabled users checking access features like lifts or changing rooms
✅ Anxious newcomers getting comfortable with the environment
✅ Councils or commissioning teams assessing venue suitability
With custom tags, you can highlight facilities, classes, instructors, or booking links within the tour itself.
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Architectural Support Available
With 25+ years in architectural design, our founder Neil Sedgley ensures that every tour captures flow, layout, and spatial use effectively.
Need CAD plans or point cloud files from your scan? We can provide:
✅ 2D CAD floor plans (ideal for layout planning or feasibility studies)
✅ Point cloud exports (.e57) for concept design or refurbishment work
Ready to Level Up
Your Fitness or Leisure Facility?
Contact Virtual Tours North East today to find out how a Matterport 3D tour can support your marketing, operations, and compliance goals.
Features
Virtual Tour
Showcase your business to the world 24/7 with a fully immersive virtual tour of your leisure facility. Let existing and potential customers visit your leisure facility remotely, take them on a tour of your amazing facilities, let visitors see what equipment you have to offer and where it is located. help with wayfinding and public engagement. Viewers are shown to be 300% more engaged with a Matterport 3D virtual tour than they are with 2D imagery. A 3D walkthrough enables your guests to experience your business as if they were really there, going far beyond photographs and 360 tours, helping your business stand out from the competition.
A Matterport virtual tour offers immersive, 3D visuals that allow potential customers to explore the swimming pool facility from the comfort of their own homes, showcasing the environment in detail and attracting their interest.
Highlighted Reel - Guided Tour
A guided story board tour lets the user experience a directed virtual tour using captions to tell a contextual story. Using the 3D digital twin model which creates the virtual tour, users can experience the space as if they were walking through the facility. A well-crafted tour creates stronger engagement, leading to higher visitor conversions and more easily absorbed internal training.
Digital Twin
‘A digital twin is a visually immersive, accurate, and interactive 3D model of a real-world space. Allowing customers, teams, partners and stakeholders to virtually interact with a physical property, Matterport’s digital twin platform is revolutionizing the way businesses manage and market their spaces’*
The digital twin created for Jesmond pool & gym provides all the features presented here and a lot more, allowing for full spatial exploration of the building architecturally.
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Visual Record
This tour provides the client with a visual record and a perfect reference as to how the spaces should be maintained by the staff and colleagues. This can also be useful for training by showing staff where items are to be placed and your expectations on presentation allowing for consistency. If a colleague or maintenance personnel is not sure where an item goes or is located, you can easily send a link via text / email highlighting its position within the virtual tour.
ADHD, Autism and Anxiety
A large portion of the swimming pools spaces are not visible from the street or reception. The virtual tour allows for people with anxiety to explore the space before they make the journey so they know what to expect when they arrive. No more worrying about what is inside as you can see virtually every accessible space. A virtual tour is far more engaging for users meaning that they explore what you have to offer a lot longer than they would with conventional video or photographs.
Accessibility
A virtual tour provides a clear way for users to visually test the building before they make the journey and explore how they will navigate the building before they arrive, which helps to reduce anxiety and helps people make a more informed decision. For wheelchair users a virtual tour is a great way to explore the building and put their mind to rest by being able to self-evaluate the accessibility of a building virtually. This virtual tour included access into the lift which serves all three floors.
Wayfinding
A fully scanned building premises captures the entire space and provides a colour photo plan where the spaces are labeled and tags provided to highlight important, key information. The plan views of all floor levels allow for users to spatially find their way around the building, being able to see spatial adjacencies and explore spaces they may not have done so in the past, all within the virtual tour.
Mattertags
Within the tour we provide tags which creates a link to any web page and video allowing the user to access useful information such as opening times, clubs, prices, sports academy, wet and dry classes etc. Providing links within the virtual tour to useful pages on your website increases web traffic and allows users to easily find the information they require. A good example of this would be a notice board such as this one for the swimming academy, clicking on the tag provides useful information and a direct link to the associated website.
Google Maps + Street View
The tour has been uploaded and intergrated into Google Streetview so anyone can explore the virtual tour within the engine of Google Maps and streetview.
Virtual Commerce
Users can see what type of items you have available in your shop, you can create links to pages on your website to find out more information or purchase items or even better by using our premium service we can add ‘V-commerce’ to your tour allowing you to provide information on various products you have to sell such as swimming wear from within the virtual tour.
Dolls House
A 3D walkthrough enables your visitors to experience your property as if they were really there, going far beyond photographs and 360 tours, helping your property stand out from the competition. The Dolls House view allows for visitors to explore the space in 3D, providing the user with a virtual experience like no other. Understand the relationship between different spaces and zoom into the virtual tour by clicking on any point of the model to access that area virtually
Search tool
Visitors and members can search for a space or piece of equipment using the search tool. Clicking on the item takes you to that exact space within the virtual tour and furthermore provides you with any specific information on that piece of equipment or space. Jesmond pool and gym used this to their advantage with every piece of gym equipment tagged, members can easily find a piece of equipment and learn more information about it and how to use it, which assists with their H&S information.
Event planners
By enabling planners to see and explore your venue in immersive 3D, you will save time on in-person visits and book more events.
Reduce walkthrough requests by providing 3D tours that provide clients with a sense of actually being at your property.
Accelerate the booking process by letting prospects see and share the property with other stakeholders and get feedback without doing a site visit.
Set client expectations immediately and accurately.
Buildings & Contents Insurance
A fully scanned building premises captures the entire space and provides a record of contents. This model provides the owner with an easy way to catalogue all contents and the high quality and finish off the space which is useful if damages occur due to fire or thef, which can simplify making a claim by complimenting your inventory log with the virtual tour.
Measurement mode
Measure any space within the virtual tour, spaces can be measured remotely without the need to travel to site.
See if you can fit that additional inflatable within the pool for the kids party or maybe you need to make a quick decision on a piece of gym equipment and you would like to know if it will fit, use the measure tool within the app and dimension up to an accuracy of 99%.
Schools Risk Assesment
The virtual tour can help schools risk assess pool visits and compliment their documentation with a useful visual tool.
Schools can showcase the virtual tour to their pupils in preparation for a planned visit and school swimming lessons. The pupils can use the virtual tour to show parents where they are going and it can help them understand what to expect, minimizing any anxiety.
Training & Guidance
Training videos and guides can be added to the virtual tour to inform the user of how to operate the specific equipment correctly and safely. This is a great way to assist the Gym by providing a robust induction process and a go back to video / information for users to help them with their fitness. This is particularly useful for new members or people wanting to refresh their knowledge of the gym equipment, for both staff and members. Videos such as You-Tube & Vimeo.
Multimedia in tags helps your space come alive and gives your viewers a fuller experience of your space.
Staff Training
Using the search tool allows staff to find items within the virtual tour which is also represented in the real world.
Using the link tool within the app, users can text and email the exact location within the virtual tour even if it’s not tagged. Once the receiver opens the virtual tour via the link they will be taken to that exact space within the tour.
Share a 3D walkthrough of your facilities with new or visiting employees so they can quickly understand your space.
Allow new employees to learn the logistics of an office or facility quickly and easily.
Educate new employees on complex facilities — especially in hard to reach or potentially dangerous areas.
Facilities Managment
Create a visual record of the assets you have on hand. Use Mattertags to label equipment with digital tags to document repairs, maintenance, and training information.
Easily share with your maintenance personnel.
Eliminate hundreds of documents needed to locate and keep track of maintenance data.
Find all relevant information to where specific machinery is located without having to depend on other personnel.
Using the link tool within the app, users can text and email the exact location within the virtual tour even if it’s not tagged. Once the receiver opens the virtual tour via the link they will be taken to that exact space within the tour.
Schematic Floor Plans
We provided Jemsond Pool & Gym schematic floor plans which are up to 99% dimensionally accurate and ideal for creating H&S plans, Fire strategy Plans etc. for your statutory documentation.
The Schematic plan is also useful for concept design and feasibility studies at the early stages of space planning and architectural design. A schematic floor plan can be quickly generated from the digital building twin which creates your virtual tour.
Social Media
Within the app users can send a link to an exact place and view point within the virtual tour. This is both useful for the management team promoting their spaces and for the general public to share locations, notice boards, spaces etc to their friends and family. Social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, Pinterest , email, texts and whatsApp. Using the virtual tour with your social media platforms is a great way to showcase your virtual tour and engage with the public.
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From beautiful 360 virtual tours to architectural packages we have you covered
360 Virtual Tours
Transform your swimming pool leisure facility with a Matterport virtual tour. In an era where visual engagement drives decisions, a Matterport tour offers an immersive experience that sets your facility apart.
Digital Twins
Transform your swimming pool leisure facility with a Matterport Digital Twin. This cutting-edge technology provides a highly detailed 3D virtual model of your space.
Architectural Package
Unlock the potential of architectural design with Matterport's digital twin technology. This innovative solution allows you to create highly accurate point cloud models, transforming the way architects conceptualise and execute their projects.
Virtual Tour - Case Study
Tadcaster Community Swimming Pool
Discover the transformative impact of Matterport virtual tours on facilities looking to enhance their appeal and reach a broader audience. By providing an immersive, 3D experience, these virtual tours allow potential visitors and clients to explore your facility from the comfort of their own homes.
The client requested a Matterport digital twin scan that created a detailed 3D model. A second virtual tour was made from this model for facility management and staff training. This digital twin gives the client better information, accurate space dimensions, and the option for a point cloud model to aid in architectural drawings to aid with future expansions, repairs, and renovations.
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For project enquiries, collaborations or for further information on we can help your business with a virtual tour, contact us.
t: 07799 435486