This is a set of activities in which individuals engage on their personal terms, such as pleasant and memorable places, allowing each tourist to build his or her own travel experiences so that these satisfy a wide range of personal needs, from pleasure to a search for meaning.
Published in Chapter:
Augmented Reality for Smart Tourism in Religious Heritage Itineraries: Tourism Experiences in the Technological Age
Célia M.Q. Ramos (University of Algarve, Portugal), Cláudia Henriques (University of Algarve, Portugal), and Robert Lanquar (La Rochelle Business School, France)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0435-1.ch010
Abstract
Pilgrimages and travel for other religious reasons are two of the major drivers of human mobility. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to sharing knowledge about religious heritage with tourists, residents, and religious communities. ICT innovations that help individuals find information and acquire knowledge about cultural heritage can bring new experiences and sensations to tourists and residents, in general, and to those who have accessibility problems, in particular. These innovations include augmented reality, location-based services, social networks, gamification, and intelligent interfaces. This paper focuses on religious and spiritual routes and itineraries, presenting a religious tourism experience model that allows tourists to acquire additional knowledge about cultural and religious heritage, based on technological architecture using intelligent human-computer interactions displayed on personal mobile devices. This approach expands personal and spiritual experiences when travelers visit religious heritage sites associated with itineraries.