Help your guests create a relationship with the sky.
The Visit Dark Skies audio experience is unique and immersive. It can be done by guests on their own and creates long-lasting memories.
No hazzle - invest only two hours and get ready to offer a new experience on your site.
We have done everything for you:
Crafting two immersive audio experiences with experts - both 30 Minutes, one for stargazing, one for cloudgazing.
Creating marketing materials with QR-codes for easy access
Setting up a streaming page for you - guests listen from their browser
Offering you all the usage rights for your site at a low-level yearly price
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Our Vision
We want to inspire hosts and guests in remote regions to celebrate the sky and the power of gazing into it.
In 10 years' time, we want astrotourism to be on everyone's lips and thus contribute to the dark sky movement.
Our Mission
We create skywatching audio experiences that can be done in private and foster immersion in the sky.
We help tourism providers in remote regions to offer an immersive experience to their guests easily.
The Visit Dark Skies offer
We offer a complete package for hosts, so you can offer Guided Stargazing and Cloud Gazing as an Upsell easily. Hosts offer our experience from free of charge up to $45, depending on their value creation model and target group.
Budget-wise, you can either think of it as a marketing expense to enrich people’s experience and create word of mouth. You can also calculate it more precisely as an upsell and create a stargazing package around it that drives additional revenue.
Get ready with two hours of effort
We promise that the setup is very easy as everything is pre-figured and the process has been optimized in the last years.
You will get your logo and individual text both on your personalized streaming page and your poster /water-proof plate.
About the founder
Etta Dannemann has been active in the lighting design scene for 10 years and, as an entrepreneur, is fascinated by the power of digital change.
She has been involved in the dark sky movement since 2018 and has had powerful dark sky experiences in Canada, the USA, Ireland, Spain, France and Germany.
With Visit Dark Skies, she wants to make a creative contribution to the movement and change people's lives by helping them connect with their senses.
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Our product #1: a ready-made experience concept for dark sky glamping sites
We have created an audio-file of 33 Minutes especially designed for full immersion into the night sky. It has been tested and iterated many times until probands felt a deep experience creating awe and relaxation, and more knowledge about the Big Dipper.
You as a host in a remote region can distribute the audio experience and do events on site with it. No guide with astronomy expertise is needed. The audio experience license kit is delivered with marketing materials and we will guide you until you have established the actitivity on your site.
The secret sauce: audio file adapted to biology of the eye
Guests lay down for 30 minutes, as long as their eyes take to adapt fully to darkness. With this, they see more stars as their eye has become much more light-sensitive. The biological process takes 30 Minutes to complete - the audio file has the same length.
With our audio guidance and perception technique, listeners are able to immerse themselves even more into the starry sky. This results in an overwhelming and exceptional encounter of the natural night. Guests can enrich their evening at a remote location where events are rare.
Content - have a sneak peak:
People lay on their back for 30 Minutes to enjoy a slow immersion into the night sky
They can play the audio-file themselves, providing a private event for them.
How to offer it
You need: a remote place
in addition, you should offer
a blanket
something to lay on
a warming accessory during off-season
Choose a safe and still remote stargazing spot, to create a real overwhelming experience for your guests. Clearly indicate the spot as the stargazing spot. Make sure there is a good view towards the horizon and no wind.
◾️ No astronomy guide needed
Night guides need to know about the stars, like to speak in front of groups and work late at night. Not really many people are like that. With Guided Stargazing, you own a scalable activity that can be facilitated by everyone.
◾️ Unlimited distribution / events on site
With a license, hosts can share the audio-file unlimited times with their guests and create an unlimited amount of events around it at their venue, all at the same license costs.
◾️ No organisational hassle
Once installed, guests can do the activity on their own. You still might organize group sessions to create additional revenue. But tour guides need no expertise, which makes organisation much easier.
◾️ Marketing material included
The license for Guided Stargazing comes with ready-made marketing material as well as hosting of the audio-file on a customized web page done for you. No additional marketing expenses needed.
◾️ Yearly license
Your license is booked for 12 month and renews automatically every year. It can be canceled six weeks after renewal. Cooperations are also possible without investment into a license. Which one is best depends on your business model.
◾️ Full support by Visit Dark Skies
License owners and cooperation partners are fully supported for the duration of the partnership by our founder Etta Dannemann. We help you implement the event suitable to your location and target group via online and chat support. We can also help you adjust lighting to create a bug-free and starry-friendly experience for your guests.
Our Product #2: a ready-made experience concept for any hotel or glamping:
Guided Cloud Gazing
We have created a corresponding daytime audio experience that works as our stargazing one: Guests lay down for 30 Minutes and gaze in the sky - they watch the clouds and experience beautifully how clouds change a lot even if they seem static in the first place.
Listeners also learn a lot about the scientific aspect of clouds as we follow the journey of a water molecule.
The script for the audio experience has been crafted in cooperation with Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society in UK.