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Itchy Feet: A 3D E-Tourism Environment
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Author(s): Ingo Seidel (Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria), Markus Gärtner (Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria), Michael Pöttler (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Helmut Berger (Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria)and Michael Dittenbach (Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 34
Source title:
Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities, and User Interface Design
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nalin Sharda (Victoria University, Australia )
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-818-5.ch013
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Abstract
In this chapter the authors describe an e-tourism environment that places emphasis on a community driven approach to foster a lively society of travelers. It enables them to exchange travel experiences, recommend tourism destinations or just catch some interesting gossip. Moreover, business transactions such as booking a trip or getting assistance from professional travel agents are a constituent part of this environment. All these interactions happen in an integrated, game-like, 3D virtual world where each tourist is impersonated as an avatar. The authors draw a retrospective on the specification, design and implementation of this e-tourism environment and present the status quo. The authors describe how they applied electronic institutions, a framework developed and employed in the area of multi-agent systems, to the tourism domain. Furthermore, they present their approach to connect a 3D virtual world with electronic institutions. Our goal is to provide a test bed for assessing the acceptance of virtual environments, as a medium to overcome the non-tangible nature of tourism products.
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