Virtual Tours a Means to an End: An Analysis of Virtual Tours’ Role in Tourism Recovery Post COVID-19

El‐Said, Osman Ahmed; Aziz, Heba

doi:10.1177/0047287521997567

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“…Currently, some researchers studied virtual tours as an effective destination promotion tool because it provides tourists with a pre-purchase 'trial' experience (Kim et al 2020). On the other hand, some researchers studied virtual tours as a substitute for the actual site visit for someone (El-Said and Aziz 2021). This study supports the former, so it focuses on the study of virtual tours acting as a marketing tool to arouse users' interest in mountain walking.…”

Section: -Degree Virtual Tourmentioning

confidence: 59%

The use of 360-degree virtual tours to promote mountain walking tourism: stimulus–organism–response model

Lai

2021

Inf Technol Tourism

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Based on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theory, this study attempts to investigate how the use of 360-degree virtual mountain walking tours can motivate audiences' intention to take a real walking in the mountains. The survey results from 320 samples after watching a 360-degree virtual video reveal the positive influence of vividness (stimulus) on presence, emotional involvement, flow state, and enjoyment (organism), leading to the intention to take mountain walking tourism (response). This study also examines the interrelationship between four organism variables to explain the underlying mechanism of 360-degree virtual travel experience in stimulating audiences' visit intention. It shows how technology helps the development of nature-based tourism. It also offers implications for developers to develop influential 360-degree virtual tourism and destination marketers to promote mountain walking tourism.

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Section: -Degree Virtual Tourmentioning

confidence: 59%

The use of 360-degree virtual tours to promote mountain walking tourism: stimulus–organism–response model

Lai

2021

Inf Technol Tourism

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“…One example is virtual tours. Virtual tourism offerings were somewhat underdeveloped prior to the pandemic, making them ideal for today's tourism businesses to develop business models and offer new digital-based products [74]. In digital tourism products, several business actors can collaborate to improve the experience of traveling virtually.…”

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Harnessing E-Collaboration for Rural Tourism Recovery after COVID-19: Dual Analysis using SWOT and Porter’s Diamond Model

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IT for rural tourism was in place before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; however, the initiatives were intermittent and isolated. The effects of the pandemic encourage e-collaboration to accelerate the recovery of tourism. This study explores the opportunities, strategies and barriers to e-collaboration in tourism business activities. Systematic literature studies were carried out by the PRISMA approach and analyzed with the fuzzy Delphi method (FDM). Meta-analysis results are mapped in a matrix combination of SWOT and Porter’s Diamond Model. This matrix was discussed with experts selected based on their experience in IT-based collaborative activities through FDG. This study’s driving factors are management commitment, culture, trust, citizens, and local community involvement. Inhibiting factors are a lack of IT, the risk of conflict, and particular parties’ domination. Several strategies to increase e-collaboration opportunities are empowering local entrepreneurship, encouraging continuous innovation, and sharing knowledge. Conflict management and increasing trust between members need to be considered to overcome barriers to e-collaboration. This study provides a novel overview of the main issues discussed in previous tourism research regarding the importance of IT to accelerate economic recovery in the face of disruption, such as a pandemic. The study examines the case of Indonesia and hopes to become a reference for optimizing IT for the recovery of rural tourism in developing countries with similar characteristics. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2021-01297 Full Text: PDF

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“…In a recent study by El-Said and Aziz, it was shown that in choosing whether to attend a virtual tour or not, characteristics related to the tour itself (accessibility, informative content, and interactivity) are deemed more important than travel restrictions and risk-perception of the tourists, thus reaffirming that while virtual tours are particularly popular during crises, they have a potential that goes beyond that specific usecase [15]. To quote Eco, it remains to be seen whether the virtual experiences will be provided in order to increase the desirability of the original or to supplant the need of the original [26].…”

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“…But far from being constrained to conjecture alone, over the last years virtual tours have started to gain traction because they require relatively little investments, they facilitate educational experiences, and they allow visitors to appreciate an attraction's tangible and intangible qualities. Many prominent museums (such as the Louvre in Paris) have adopted virtual tours to allow the public to enjoy part of their collections from home [15].…”

Section: B Virtual Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Massive Remote School Trips: A Case Study

Bogliolo

Delpriori

Francesco³

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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During the height of the CoViD-19 pandemic in 2020 and early 2021, schools throughout Europe have been closed for several months, leaving teachers with the responsibility of providing distance learning through video conferencing and remote-presence systems, while parents were scrambling for appropriate tools and support. School outings have also suffered from the limited mobility of students given by stay-at-home orders and other restrictions. In this paper we present a set of technologies developed to reproduce the school trip experience, allowing students to stay at home or in school and requiring only a Web browser and Internet access, while integrating communication tools that allow participants to actively be engaged in interactive lessons and educational experiences. In 2020 the tool has been used during the "CodyTrip" event, a two-day visit to the town of Urbino, attended by more than 15.000 students, followed up with a series of events in 2021 with over 115.000 participants. Results from the pilot events show very high engagement and demonstrate the feasibility of organizing online visiting experiences with massive participation without compromising the perceived interactivity of the proposed activities, which can be equally engaging for different audience demographics. Findings also suggest that this solution may be adopted not only as a contingent substitute for traveling during the pandemic, but as an effective tool to widen the scope and appeal of cultural tourism.

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Virtual Tours a Means to an End: An Analysis of Virtual Tours’ Role in Tourism Recovery Post COVID-19

Cited by 243 publications

References 66 publications

The use of 360-degree virtual tours to promote mountain walking tourism: stimulus–organism–response model

The use of 360-degree virtual tours to promote mountain walking tourism: stimulus–organism–response model

Harnessing E-Collaboration for Rural Tourism Recovery after COVID-19: Dual Analysis using SWOT and Porter’s Diamond Model

Massive Remote School Trips: A Case Study

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