Virtual reality and nature based tourism: an opportunity for operators and visitors

Nature based tourism is a growing segment of the tourism industry, and tourism operators are facing growing challenges to the quality of their visitor experiences. We explored the application of virtual reality (VR) in this sector, and asked whether it can be successfully used in a natural setting. We found that there is great potential for the use of VR in nature based tourism for the provision of both information and education, with many application opportunities identified.Nature based tourism is a growing segment of the tourism industry, and tourism operators are facing growing challenges to the quality of their visitor experiences. We explored the application of virtual reality (VR) in this sector, and asked whether it can be successfully used in a natural setting. We found that there is great potential for the use of VR in nature based tourism for the provision of both information and education, with many application opportunities identified.
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Conference Title

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 28TH AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION CONFERENCE (OZCHI 2016)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3010915.3011854

Copyright Statement

© ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 28th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4618-4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3010915.3011854.

Subject

Human-computer interaction

Publication URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10072/124169

Collection

Conference outputs