AP reports from London that the Faroe Islands are offering remote tourism, where web users can control a real-life tour guide to trek around the remote archipelago’s quaint towns and volcanic islands.
The innovation is meant to sustain global interest in the North Atlantic islands, which have recently come to rely more on revenue from tourism. And it might assist locked-down people around the world broaden their horizons beyond their apartment walls.
Wearing helmet cameras, local guides provide commentary to web audiences remotely, guiding them across the Danish semiautonomous territory, which has had fewer than 200 confirmed COVID-19 cases and no deaths.
Roughly 50,000 people joined the first four hour-long tours, which are offered for free, said Hanssen. Most viewers were trying to land one of the minute-long slots for controlling the guide, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tours commenced Wednesday and will run until at least April 25. They are webcast on a tourist board website and on its Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Read the full report at thenationalherald.com
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