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Encyclopedia > Virtual tourism
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Virtual tourism refers to pre-planning alternative touristic activity before your departure, by integrating multiple digital resources to explore regions of the world without having to physically travel. It helps focus attention onto people, places and exploring changes over time! Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


By using the internet, travel literature (travel guides and travelogues), Journals, Papers and television visual learning courseware graphically shows information necessary to make an informed decision about which places to visit and historic or scenic byways to explore. Travel literature is literature which records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is touring a foreign place for the sake and pleasure of travel. ... Visual learning is a proven teaching method in which graphic organizers, such as webs, concept maps idea maps, and slide shows are used to help students of all ages think and learn more effectively. ...


It is an economical activity that employs people from several different specific areas, such as journalists and photographers, geographers, editors, cameras, writers, etc... and it is one activity related to promoting nature-based or people-powered outdoor recreation involving adventure-based tourism. People participating in summer luge as a form of recreation, in the Vosges. ... Population density by country, 2006 Human geography is a branch of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes that shape human interaction with the environment, with particular reference to the causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity on the Earths surface. ...


The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. The word panorama indicates an unbroken view, so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video footage. However, of late the phrases 'panoramic tour' and 'virtual tour' have mostly been associated with virtual tours created using stills cameras. The image above is an example of what a virtual tour movie looks like when it has been 'flattened', this is also referred to as a panoramic image. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


Such virtual tours created with still cameras are made up of a number of shots taken from a single point. The camera and lens are rotated around what is referred to as a nodal point (the exact point at the back of the lens where the light converges). These images are stitched together using specialist software, the movies are each resized and configured for optimal on-line use. Some 'panographers' will then add hotspots (allow user to click and walk through doors etc) and integrate plans or maps.


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Interactivity of Digital Texts: Topics: Virtual Tourism (1279 words)
These forms of virtual tourism may appeal to segments of the population that are barred from actual travel – because of disabilities, or for financial or political reasons.
Virtual travels may help to preserve environments that are in danger of losing their natural (and hence cultural) identity by an excess of modern-day tourism: “Virtual Stonehenge” or “Virtual Tibet” are projects specifically designed with such an aim in mind.
Faced with the digital and the virtual, concepts that at first glance seem to elude the very domain ecocriticism is accustomed to deal with, ecocriticism must ask about the ‘nature’ of virtual environments and about their relationship to the geographical environments they represent.
tourism: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (5387 words)
Tourism is the act of travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act.
Tourism is vital for many countries, due to the income generated by the consumption of goods and services by tourists, the taxes levied on businesses in the tourism industry, and the opportunity for employment and economic advancement by working in the industry.
Hunziker and Krapf, in 1942, defined tourism as "the totality of the relationship and phenomenon arising from the travel and stay of strangers, provided that the stay does not imply the establishment of a permanent residence and is not connected with a remunerative activities".
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