From a presentation I made to some students studying the use of these tools in Travel and Hospitality industry

1. Virtual world/Social Web in Tourism
Preetam Rai

2. About Me

4. TRAVEL TOOLS

5. Get your own customized travel guide at offbeat guides

6. you can get digital or print travel guide

7. many travel guides are appearing on the iPhone

8. Trivop does video guide for hotels

9. Wingbus from Korea aggregates travel stories from blogs

12. You can create video guides for your city using Google
maps and YouTube videos

13. VIRTUAL WORLDS

14. Attending events

15. Working with students on Virtual World projects

16. Virtual words lets us play with
space
you(visitor) appears as an avatar

17. You interact with other avatars (voice,
text and gestures)

18. Popular Virtual Worlds
CHINA - Hipihi
JAPAN, Rest of Asia - Second Life
Europe- Second Life

19. Virtual Worlds in JAPAN

20. Second Life related books in Japanese bookstores

21. Second Life related books in Japan

22. Kansai Island on Second Life used by the tourism authority

23. Visiting the Kansai Island

24. Shopping at the Kansai Island

25. Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

26. Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

27. Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

28. Buying clothes for my avatar at another Japanese island

29. Asakusa in Second Life

30. Asakusa in Real Life

31. Shimokitazawa (a youth-fashion district of Tokyo) in Second
Life
Posted by Second Life Resident Ina Centaur. Visit Shimokitazawa.via Flickr user inacentaurdump

32. Shimokitazawa in Real Life

33. Popular Japanese bookstore Book Off in Second Life
via yoshihiro_wada’s Flickr page

34. Mobile Version of Second Life

35. OUTSIDE JAPAN

38. Greece

41. WHAT MORE ?