What is a 360\u00b0 Google Maps virtual tour?

A 360\u00b0 Google Maps virtual tour is an immersive walkthrough of your business \u2014 captured as a series of 360\u00b0 photos and published directly to your Google Business Profile, Google Maps and Street View. Visitors navigate from room to room in their browser, exactly as if they were there.

How long does a 360\u00b0 virtual tour shoot take?

A typical small business shoot (caf\u00e9, retail unit, gym studio) takes 2\u20134 hours on site. Larger venues such as hotels, car showrooms or universities take a half or full day. We deliver the live, hosted tour within 5\u201310 working days of capture.

How much does a 360\u00b0 virtual tour cost in the UK?

Pricing starts from around \u00a3300 for a small retail outlet, and scales based on the number of 360\u00b0 points captured, travel to your UK location, and whether you need Google Street View publishing, custom-hosted tour, or both. We shoot all shapes and sizes of business and offer a free quote on every project.

Do virtual tours improve Google Business Profile rankings?

Google Business Profiles with a published 360\u00b0 virtual tour typically receive significantly more customer interest than profiles without one \u2014 per Google's own internal data. Tours increase dwell time on your listing, signal to Google that the business is verified and active, and appear directly on Google Maps and Search.

Where in the UK does Trusted Photography work?

We cover the whole of the United Kingdom \u2014 all 51 English counties, plus Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Our HQ is in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, and our team travels UK-wide for shoots.

What types of business is a virtual tour good for?

360\u00b0 virtual tours work especially well for hotels and resorts, car dealerships, restaurants and caf\u00e9s, retail stores and showrooms, gyms and fitness centres, pubs and bars, property and estate agents, and universities and schools. Any business where customers benefit from seeing the space before they visit.

What's the difference between Google Street View and Matterport?

Google Street View tours are published directly to your Google Business Profile and Google Maps and are free to host. Matterport tours are hosted on Matterport's platform with a small ongoing subscription, but offer 3D walkthrough and floor-plan features. We offer both and can advise which suits your business.

Do you still publish to Google Maps now the Trusted Photographer programme has ended?

Yes. Google retired its formal Trusted Photographer programme, but the underlying ability to publish 360\u00b0 tours to Google Maps and Street View remains fully available via Google's Street View Studio. Trusted Photography has been publishing tours to Google Maps since 2012 and continues to do so today.

UK Coverage

360° Virtual Tour Photography — covering the whole of the UK.

Operating UK-wide since 2012 from our Long Eaton HQ. We've shot 360° virtual tours, drone footage and business video in every English county plus Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — for clients including LEGO, BMW, Currys, Hamleys, Wren Kitchens, Marco Pierre White, the Post Office and the Universities of Nottingham and Salford.

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How it works

UK-wide, with sensible travel terms.

Long Eaton HQ

Based in Derbyshire, in the middle of the UK — most jobs are within a 2-3 hour drive of our studio.

All 51 English counties

Shoots routinely booked from Cornwall up to Northumberland. No outlying-region surcharges.

Scotland, Wales & NI

Regular work in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Swansea, Belfast and across the Highlands.

Transparent travel

Travel is included in the quote up front — no per-mile invoicing or fuel surcharges after the shoot.

Multi-site rollouts

National brands with multiple sites get a per-site discount and a consistent visual treatment across every location.

Service identical UK-wide

Same equipment, same delivery standards, same editing team — whether the shoot is 10 minutes away or 6 hours away.

UK cities we serve

Dedicated 360° virtual tour service in your city.

Top-tier UK cities with a dedicated 360° virtual tour service page. Click your city for local pricing, examples and the team contact for that area.

London → Manchester → Birmingham → Bristol → Leeds → Liverpool → Sheffield → Nottingham → Edinburgh → Glasgow →

UK counties & regions

Browse by area.

Each area below has a dedicated 360° virtual tour service page with local pricing and examples.

Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset County Durham East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Greater London Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Merseyside Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne & Wear Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Yorkshire

Wherever you are in the UK — we can shoot it.

Tell us the location, the venue and what you need the 360° tour to do. We'll come back with a fixed quote — including travel — within one working day.