A review of foreign research on the application of virtual reality technology in tourism
Journal Title: Smart Tourism - Year 2020, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
As an emerging technology in recent years, virtual reality technology has penetrated people’s fields of material production and life. Nowadays, with the development of technology, the impact of virtual reality technology on the tourism industry is becoming more and more obvious. This paper sorts out and studies the literature of virtual reality and virtual tourism in the past 50 years, discusses the definition of virtual reality and the development of virtual reality technology, sorts out the virtual tourism literature in chronological order, and summarizes the four development stages of virtual tourism. Finally, the existing developments and shortcomings are summarized, and some suggestions for future development are proposed.
Authors and Affiliations
Si Wang, Huihui Yan, Fengxia Wang
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP709942
- DOI 10.54517/st.v1i1.1631
- Views 172
- Downloads 0
Triple helix stakeholder visions for smart tourism
Objective: This research article seeks to analyze how academic progress in the field of tourism places value on the need to adopt technological advances in the framework of development for a sustainable future, taking th...
Smart beach management from the visitor’s perception: Case of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico
Beach management presents options for applying technological systems to facilitate decision making as tourist destinations. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyze the opportunities for intelligent beach...
Smart tourist destinations, a new conceptual contribution for local development in Ecuador. Case “Portoviejo UNESCO Creative City”
The tourism activity is becoming more competitive every day, the exponential growth of technology makes possible the improvement of communications between businesses and end customers, the emergence of new applications...
Interpretation of the value of red cultural heritage in Shanghai based on 3D visualization technology
Shanghai is the gathering place of the Red Cultural Heritage. Based on a questionnaire analysis of 1,047 respondents on the interpretation of the value of red cultural heritage in Shanghai, this study shows that people...
A case study on tourism spatial pattern and its influencing factors from the perspective of real and virtual tourism economic at county scale in Yellow River Economic Belt
Based on the index of tourism Baidu search volume and total tourism income of 667 research units at county scale in Yellow River Economic Belt, this paper uses spatial classification, exploratory analysis of spatial dat...