Use of Multi-Media to Promote Tourism

This paper attempts to provide a review of the application of multimedia technology in tourism environments. It justifies the application of multimedia in various tourism sub-domains such as tourism marketing, tourism education, mobile learning for travelers, mobile tourism guides, multimedia kiosks, virtual museums, virtual tours, multimedia travel plans, cooking studios based on web recipes, video conferencing and modelling demand for space tourism services. Discover benchmark programs and their best practices that have helped them promote the tourism industry by using multi-media platforms. The reader of this report will learn how multi-media programs of the respective countries have successfully used technology to increase the efficiency of their tourist industries and how the benchmarks employed various multi-media to promote tourism.