Abstract
The Metaverse, a buzzword after last pandemic, is accepted as a functional tool enable for multi sided platforms in a single phygital world. The key contributions of this article include an organized evaluation of metaverse concepts, components, main facilitator technologies and implementation in tourism and a critical analysis of how metaverse can be facilitated in tourism including designing a new metaverse ecosystem by means of Metaverse as a service (MaaS) platform. In designed metaverse, it is aimed to merge two business models B2C &G2C to construct a new hybrid business model B2CG2Ccamping, glamping activities. In order to concrete the designed metaverse, two scenarios were generated by means of scenario-based approach. The metaverse designed by means of Spatial.io on a desktop computer with a 512 GB capacity with processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core (TM) i9-11950H @ 2.60GHz 2.61 GHz, 16.0 GB RAM, 64-bit -Windows 10 Enterprises. Results show that designed metaverse is applicable for tourism activities such as glamping as a case on this study. Besides, the designed ecosystem approved the two business models can be merged in a one platform: Metaverse.
Publisher
Disiplinlerarasi Akademik Turizm Dergisi
Subject
General Materials Science