Activating Virtual Tourism to Animate the Tourist Destinations in Light of Coronavirus Crisis (Covid-19): with Reference to the Case of Algeria

Abdelaziz Madoui () and Hakim Bendjeroua
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Abdelaziz Madoui: Research Laboratory Requirements for qualifying and developing growing economies in light of the global economic openness, Kasdi Merbah University Ouargla (Algeria)
Hakim Bendjeroua: Research Laboratory Requirements for qualifying and developing growing economies in light of the global economic openness, Kasdi Merbah University Ouargla (Algeria)

Management & Economics Research Journal, 2020, vol. 2, issue 2Special, 50-63

Abstract: This study aims to highlight the role of virtual tourism and to accelerate the activation of its role to revitalize the tourist destinations in the light of the crisis in the world due to the virus of Covid-19. In addition, learning about the most important obstacles facing this tourism in Algeria. The study concluded that virtual tourism is still absent in the tourism reality of Algeria, as all the web-designed site lacks the different techniques used in such a kind of tourism as virtual reality and augmented reality. The study gave some recommendations for developing virtual tourism as an important factor in stimulating tourism towards the Algerian tourist destination especially in light of the international crisis of the virus of Covid-19.

Keywords: Tourist Attraction; Virtual Tourism; Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L82 L83 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.48100/merj.v2i2Special.101

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