virtual worlds and social web in tourism

Virtual world/Social Web in Tourism

Preetam Rai

About Me

TRAVEL TOOLS

Get your own customized travel guide at offbeat guides

you can get digital or print travel guide

many travel guides are appearing on the iPhone

Trivop does video guide for hotels

Wingbus from Korea aggregates travel stories from blogs

You can create video guides for your city using Google maps and YouTube videos

VIRTUAL WORLDS

Attending events

Working with students on Virtual World projects

Virtual words lets us play with space

you(visitor) appears as an avatar

You interact with other avatars (voice, text and gestures)

CHINA - HipihiJAPAN, Rest of Asia - Second Life

Europe- Second Life

Popular Virtual Worlds

Virtual Worlds in JAPAN

Second Life related books in Japanese bookstores

Second Life related books in Japan

Kansai Island on Second Life used by the tourism authority

Visiting the Kansai Island

Shopping at the Kansai Island

Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

Asakusa in Second Life

Asakusa in Real Life

Shimokitazawa (a youth-fashion district of Tokyo) in Second Life

Posted by Second Life Resident Ina Centaur. Visit Shimokitazawa.via Flickr user inacentaurdump

Shimokitazawa in Real Life

Popular Japanese bookstore Book Off in Second Life

via yoshihiro_wada’s Flickr page

Mobile Version of Second Life

OUTSIDE JAPAN

Greece

WHAT MORE ?