xbox the birth of gaming tourism

McCann London
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To target a new audience, we created a new reason to buy games. Not just to play but to visit. The centrepiece was The Rough Guide to Xbox – the first travel guide for virtual worlds. Xbox transformed into a travel brand, with a stand at the UK’s biggest travel expo, tourist board-style ads, in-game guided tours, and even game bundles re-framed as package holidays. That was all before Covid. But when the pandemic hit, it cemented this new way to travel.




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