Listen to the grandfather clock chime in Anne Hathaway's cottage, tread the marbled floors and gaze in awe at the painted ceiling of Chatsworth House and soak in the serenity of a setting sun at Durdle Door- these are just some of the dizzyingly realistic experiences that tourists can now try in Britain before they even arrive - thanks to some breathtaking 360-degree photography. The stunning, immersive experiences have been created by 360 photo specialist Rod Edwards, who used an automated digital camera with a panoramic tripod head and special fish eye lens to shoot the individual images. Using complex software, Edwards painstakingly stitched the images together to produce a spherical interactive panorama and added in real sound from each location.Immersive experiences shot with a fish eye lens and special digital equipment took four hours each to processConwy Castle and Durdle Door among sites pictured to entice overseas visitors to 'snoop around' the UK's regionsVisitBritain predict that the UK will welcome a record 42 million international visitors annually by 2020
Altogether they spent £21.7billion contributing to the _'s economy (also up three per cent in real terms), directly supporting 500,000 jobs, VisitBritain said.