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> Other places are so crowded that it seriously impacts the experience (parts of the Louvre, the Vatican). I will never, ever go back to Palais Versailles. The

by ashark 10y ago

> Other places are so crowded that it seriously impacts the experience (parts of the Louvre, the Vatican). I will never, ever go back to Palais Versailles. The gardens, maybe. Inside? Hell no. It was a really long wait to eventually be shoved through a cattle-chute of an experience for a couple hours, barely able to see anything, unable to take enough time to really look around due to the motion of the crowd, some other tourists constantly shoving me, and wishing more than anything that it was over. You'd have to pay me a fair amount of money to do it again. A VR tour of it might be cool, though.

prawn 10y ago
Exactly. Had a similar experience in the Vatican. Coupled with restrictions on photography and the like. And it won't improve as more and more people are in a financial position to travel (Chinese middle class, as one example). I think initially people will decry virtual tourism as inferior but eventually cost and convenience will make it very popular. And then we'll see a seriously blurred line between true tourism (Versailles, for example) and enhanced (Westworld, shot around Moab in Utah) or completely invented worlds (Avatar). And another blurred line between those sorts of traditional experiences and the same being gamified at varying levels.