Look left, turn right.. jump! Islands offer remote tourism
Associated PressLONDON — Wish you could travel to a faraway island during the lockdown? The Faroe Islands are offering remote tourism, where web users can control a real life tour guide to trek around the remote archipelago’s quaint towns and volcanic islands. “You’re sort of steering this person and deciding what you want to see and where you want this person to go.” Wearing helmet cameras, local guides provide commentary to web audiences remotely, guiding them across the Danish semiautonomous territory, which has had less than 200 confirmed COVID-19 cases and no deaths. “We’re going to try and see if we can get on a helicopter and see if we can get people to steer a pilot,” Hanssen said. “The idea is to whet people’s appetite and get them to want to come and experience this in real life,” Hanssen said.
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All hail the Faroes! This Danish archipelago offers spectacular scenery and a mighty Viking welcome
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Now you can remote control people in the Faroe Islands
CNN
You can ‘remote control’ a Faroe Islander to explore the archipelago
The Independent
Faroe Islands closing to tourists – briefly
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Faroe Islands closing to tourists – briefly
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