Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage Tourism

Çızel, Beykan; Ajanovic, Edina

doi:10.15308/sitcon-2018-131-134

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“…A report ( 2002) by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) describes tangible and intangible cultural heritage as the mix of value systems, artistic expressions, beliefs, traditions, production, space, objects, and lifestyles of each society as part of human activity that current generations inherit from previous ages. Çizel and Ajanovic (2018) add that cultural heritage represents an integral and important aspect of a culture and pertains to visible traces of a society from its ancient times to its recent history.…”

Section: The Use Of Virtual Reality At Heritage and Cultural Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, VR has introduced many useful applications for the tourism industry through the diverse development of ICTs. VR has been used in many tourism processes and in areas such as planning, management, marketing, and operations (Çizel and Ajanovic, 2018). The list of heritage and cultural sites that are virtually accessible is continuously becoming extended.…”

Section: The Use Of Virtual Reality At Heritage and Cultural Sitesmentioning

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Applying virtual reality tourism to cultural heritage sites: A case study on Al-Diriyah

Alkhaliel¹

2022

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Virtual Reality (VR) has existed in various forms since the 1960s and has been known by different terms such as artificial reality, simulator technology, and synthetic environment. The technology used to realize VR has continued to develop applications in discrete domains. In the travel and tourism industry, VR enables tourists to interact with their destinations in great detail, provides travelers with abundant information, and allows users to satisfy diverse motives by participating in activities that accord them with a rich digital experience of locations, including heritage and cultural sites. This paper attends to the general application of VR technologies in tourism, focusing particularly on heritage-based cultural sites to understand the advantages and threats of VR, given the contemporary global circumstances. The article is grounded in the descriptive-analytical approach and combines theoretical as well as field studies through the administration of a questionnaire on tourism and heritage to a wide range of respondents. The questionnaire pertains to virtual tourism at the Al-Diriyah heritage site and probes related expectations, possibilities, and obstacles.

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Section: The Use Of Virtual Reality At Heritage and Cultural Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Use Of Virtual Reality At Heritage and Cultural Sitesmentioning

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Applying virtual reality tourism to cultural heritage sites: A case study on Al-Diriyah

Alkhaliel¹

2022

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“…In addition to the traditional photo or the painting, we have Virtual Reality (VR), which is still a pictorial mode but it may surpass the boundary of the traditional pictorial mode. For example, Çizel and Ajanovic (2018) explained that the use of VR as a protection tool is based on the potential to create virtual experiences that tourists can accept as a substitute for a genuine visit to the areas of threatened cultural heritage (p.133). In 2018, Google and CyArk launched the Open Heritage project, and have posted online realistic 3D models of 26 heritage locations in 18 countries, including the 1000 year old temple of Kukulcan in the Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico and the parts of the Roman city of Pompeii, buried by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (Metcalfe, 2018).…”

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The impact of visual media on social cognitive concept: The case of cultural object Ru (Korea)

Lee¹

2019

Virtual archaeol. rev.

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<div data-canvas-width="266.11469461802045">There have been very few studies explaining the theoretica l basis on the importance of visible cultural heritage. This study provides the philosophical background of this topic based on a phenomenological point of view and</div><div data-canvas-width="408.0393972989316">explains the significant impact on social members’ cognition. The case of Ru, one of the traditional Korean building types, is introduced as a representative example; how its concept has been defined, changed, and forgotten in Korean culture. The importance of having a correct understanding of how cognition is composed of different types of experiences of cultural heritage is further explained. In this context, the importance of semantic mode and pictorial mode classified by Husserl is argued as the most powerful medium in human cognition based on phenomenological analysis. In this respect, the important role of Virtual Reality (VR) was highlighted. Considering the pace of recent technology and researches, breaking the barrier between experiencing the physical object and the VR may be a matter of time. Phenomenological classification of cultural heritage, which was designed for explaining all the types of cultural heritage, is introduced. The importance of developing a valid VR model and its role in cultural studies is emphasized via the phenomenological classification of cultural heritage. Finally, the balance of the inductive and deductive approach in a cultural study is suggested for more prolific and balanced achievements.</div><div data-canvas-width="408.0393972989316"> </div><div data-canvas-width="408.0393972989316"><p>Highlights:</p><ul><li>This article provides the philosophical background of the importance of visible cultural heritage based on the phenomenological point of view.</li><li>Significant impact on social members’ cognition of the visible cultural heritage is discussed in the case of the traditional Korean building.</li><li>In this respect, the important role of Virtual Reality technology is highlighted.</li></ul><p> </p></div>

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On the Use of Digital Technologies in the Process of Tourist and Recreational Development of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Danger

Asadov,

Baranov,

Filippova

2024

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

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Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage Tourism

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Applying virtual reality tourism to cultural heritage sites: A case study on Al-Diriyah

Applying virtual reality tourism to cultural heritage sites: A case study on Al-Diriyah

The impact of visual media on social cognitive concept: The case of cultural object Ru (Korea)

On the Use of Digital Technologies in the Process of Tourist and Recreational Development of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Danger

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