Development of a Metaverse Platform for Tourism Promotion in Apulia

Abstract: Metaverse is an engaging way to recreate in a digital environment the real world. It allows people to connect not by just browsing a website, but by using headsets and virtual reality techniques. The metaverse is actually in a rapid development phase, thanks to the advances in different topics. This paper proposes a smart tourism platform in which tourists can interact with guides and different kinds of suppliers, without the need to phisically visit the city they are in. We propose some techniques to scan the real world and transpose it in a metaverse platform, using the recreation of an Italian city, Bari, as a real life scenario.