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What is Augment Reality in Tourism Industry

Handbook of Research on Technological Developments for Cultural Heritage and eTourism Applications
The augmented reality applications are used in many fields such as cultural heritage, urban cultural tourism, museums, the AR tourism guide, the AR tourism navigation, tourism education, tourism AR games, hotels and restaurants, and AR translation in the tourism industry.
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Augmented Reality: Applications and Implications for Tourism
Erkan Özdemir (Uludağ University, Turkey) and Serkan Kılıç (Uludağ University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2927-9.ch003
Abstract
Technological advances have had an impact on many industries as well as the tourism industry. Augmented reality applications, one of the emerging new technologies in recent years, have also started to be used in our daily lives. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that allows its users to see the real world together with an additional virtual world that is added in real time to the same field of view. The augmented reality applications contribute to the enrichment of tourists' tourism experiences, especially during their visit and result in augmented satisfaction levels. Furthermore, it is one of the effective tools that can be used against the wear and tear of cultural heritage sites caused by overcrowding. In this chapter, the application fields of the augmented reality in the field of tourism have been discussed under the subtitles. As a result of our study, recommendations for the development of AR applications both for the literature and real-life application have been presented.
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