Electronic Systems and Offsite Touristic Activities Based on Geological Concepts: A Speculative Discussion
| Autor: | Carlos Figueiredo, Carlos Alves, Jorge Sanjurjo-Sánchez |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade do Minho |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Value (ethics)
Built environment Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) 0507 social and economic geography Geological Concepts Education Virtual objects 0502 economics and business Electronic systems 05 social sciences COVID-19 SpaceX Celestial bodies Variable (computer science) Risk analysis (engineering) 13. Climate action Business Geological systems Remote operations 050703 geography 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | RUC: Repositorio da Universidade da Coruña Universidade da Coruña (UDC) RUC. Repositorio da Universidade da Coruña instname |
| Popis: | 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 The Lab2PT‐Landscapes, Heritage and Territory laboratory ‐ UIDB/04509/2020 is supported by the Portuguese FCT ‐ “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the CERENA (funded by a strategic project of the FCT-UIDB/04028/2020) and the LAMPIST of the DECivil, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. The University Institute of Geology of the University of A Coruña (Spain) receives support from the Xunta de Galicia from the program “Consolidación y estructuración de unidades de investigación competitivas: Grupos de potencial de crecimiento” (ED431B 2018/47) and Redes de investigación (R2017/008). |
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