Electronic Systems and Offsite Touristic Activities Based on Geological Concepts: A Speculative Discussion
Title
Electronic Systems and Offsite Touristic Activities Based on Geological Concepts: A Speculative DiscussionDate
2020-10-30Citation
Alves, C.; Figueiredo, C.; Sanjurjo-Sánchez, J. Electronic Systems and Offsite Touristic Activities Based on Geological Concepts: A Speculative Discussion. Eng. Proc. 2020, 3, 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/IEC2020-06969
Abstract
[Abstract] The COVID-19 pandemic has caused havoc in many economic areas such as those related to tourism. This creates the need for alternative activities in this sector, especially given that it is not clear when the present emergency will end and there could be new situations of this kind. We consider here two main possibilities (virtual models and remote observations) for tourism related to geological objects (including those used by humans) and processes. These approaches could help to promote remote-operated tourism in other celestial bodies, helping to promote this kind of enterprise. These activities could be prepared with variable connection to education (for publics with diverse age ranges), prompting their use at any time of the year (hence minimizing the issue of seasonality). Our discussion suggests that remote observations will be the most interesting option since they could potentially give the users an unlimited diversity of experiences, it might give higher returns to local communities (but also higher loads on local environments) and they could find additional value in other geological applications. While our analysis is certainly very speculative at present, it can be submitted to falsification by the financial results.
Keywords
Geological systems
Virtual objects
Remote operations
Education
Built environment
Celestial bodies
SpaceX
COVID-19
Virtual objects
Remote operations
Education
Built environment
Celestial bodies
SpaceX
COVID-19
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Atribución 4.0 Internacional
ISSN
2673-4591