Although there has become a great demand for virtual tourism on the World Wide Web it is important to look at the experience of the virtual tourist in comparison to reality. The negative aspects to virtual tourism are based on the things you cannot do when looking at a web site such as get holiday photos, talk to other travellers, and buy souvenirs. For many people virtual tourism is no longer a social event and the interaction with other people that they see as part of the experience is lost along with the spontaneity of the experience and the element of surprise. There is also still an element of worry among virtual tourists about online privacy and when bookin

This website definitely give you a sense of place as it allow you to look around London as if you were already there and allows you to walk around the famous sites of London.

The images are not provided in real time so the website can be slow to find each location this could put of people using this website as it could be time consuming. What is missing from the experience is locations of tourist parts of London such as Leicester Square which means in terms of attracting tourists the website makes London look quite dull which would force virtual tourists to look for some other way of finding information out about London, perhaps from a travel agent or brochures.

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