A review of augmented reality applications for tourism industry

Abstract

Augmented reality has been popular among people because its ability to enhance collaboration between real world and virtual environment.AR has been used in many fields such as medical, education and automobile. Tourism is also one of those sectors. Lot of the cultural heritages of a country are centered on ruins. Most of the ruins have had complex structures and elaborate architectures, most of which have been reduced to a small percentage of what they originally were. Tourists cannot get clear understanding by just seeing ruins left present. This paper provides an overview of tourism applications that have been developed to get attraction of tourists and to enhance tourist experience while travelling Sri Lanka.