Digital tourism. Building a metaverse as an innovative virtualized tourist product
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26661/2522-1566/2023-2/24-03Keywords:
virtualization of tourism, virtualized tourism, tourism 4.0, metaverse in tourism, innovative tourism product, digitalization of the tourism industry, improvement of destination reputation managementAbstract
Virtualization of the tourist and cultural industries is gaining rapid momentum and development not only around the world, but also in Ukraine. It is quite an effective and progressive tool for improving the reputation management of a national tourist destination. During the war, the digitalization of tourism as a tool reached its peak of development and technology integrated into the industry definitely affects it. The field of virtualization is not a modern trend, but necessary, because the tourist and cultural service is changing and adapting to modern conditions of globalization. A number of scientists and practitioners, mainly foreign ones, are engaged in the research of this issue, because the process of digitization and digitization has a progressive change of power and takes place primarily in high-tech countries. One of the main problems in the research is defined by the author to reveal the understanding of the transformation of the industry and its virtualization during the global development of technologies and globalization and the use of technologies to create innovative tourism products and services. In the study of the given concept developed by the author regarding the use of blockchain technology, augmented reality and NFT in the creation of a metaverse, as an innovative virtualized tourist product in Ukraine, as a tourist destination is developing despite the war. This concept includes the construction of a metaverse, taking into account the specific resources (historical-architectural, archaeological, cultural, etc.) of the regional destination with the aim of creating an innovative product for both the tourist in its classical definition and the "virtualized tourist".
JEL Classification: F6, L83, L86
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