Planning and development a virtual environment as a tool of regional and international promotion of the tourism

Abstract

The aim of this applied research is to design a virtual museum paradigm, which includes contributions on conceptual, theoretical and empirical fields of tourism and museology and planning and development for these areas The research resulted in the construction of a virtual environment, in order to harness the potential of hypermedia and the internet as support to offer information, services and promotional scenarios of the capital city of Brazil as a tourist destination. The methodology is a comparative analysis of Virtual Museums on the internet and complemented by secondary sources in order to infer a model of virtual museum with a practical application: to present a wealth of information and a collection of images of a city that, being actually a human cultural asset and open air museum, can be visited by means of virtual reality. The research generated as a product - the Virtual Museum of Brasilia - which can become a reference for similar initiatives.