By Memory Phiri
Worth Noting:
- What you see is what you get. Aesthetically, this type of virtual tourism managed to make Victoria Falls very popular as the natural wonder of the world. In turn, countless blogs and Facebook pages from other countries like South Africa, Zambia and Botswana ostentatiously market their tourism product including the majestic falls so as to boost their image.
- Cutting to the chase, photos make virtual tourism come alive. Honestly, noone was ever going to believe that Zimbabwe is a world of wonders without some vivid pictures to fit the narrative. Tourism revolves around photos therefore tourists hanker for convincing snaps to whet their appetite.
Seeing is believing so it’s only fair to show people what you will be trying to put into words without preamble. Tourism has benefited much from photography because tourists usually want to capture every moment.
Once you take a photo, you would have literally stopped time forever. In other words, you will always time travel to that vacation the instant you open your photo album. Retrospectively, as a way of preserving memories tourists found it needful to walk around with a camera in hand so as to picture every eye-catching scene on site during a tour.
Unaware of the blessing they will be extending, this is helping their friends and relatives back at home to get to see these picture perfect places as well. Thus, other kindred souls are making a point to visit that cynosure come hail come thunder.
Kudos to the power of a snapshot. All in all, tourists have managed to promote a lot of destinations through a camera’s lens which enhances the picture quality. Truth be told, photos summarises the scenery at a mere click.
Moreso, destinations like Mavuradonha Wilderness Area thrive on photography because the pictures will be used for documentaries and magazines.
Potently, tour operators have promotional websites, billboards and brochures in which they lucidly advertise all about their destinations.
What you see is what you get. Aesthetically, this type of virtual tourism managed to make Victoria Falls very popular as the natural wonder of the world. In turn, countless blogs and Facebook pages from other countries like South Africa, Zambia and Botswana ostentatiously market their tourism product including the majestic falls so as to boost their image.
Cutting to the chase, photos make virtual tourism come alive. Honestly, noone was ever going to believe that Zimbabwe is a world of wonders without some vivid pictures to fit the narrative. Tourism revolves around photos therefore tourists hanker for convincing snaps to whet their appetite.
Take it or leave it, their imagination should be assuaged for them to come and see the figurative now as the real thing.
Apparently, a paradigm shift in technology has brought about the 360 photo booth to compliment our photography portfolio.
Undoubtedly, it keeps on getting better because this modified booth boils down to memorable moments. As far as excitement goes, the clockwise photo booth has changed the whole landscape when talking about photo shoots in general.
Palpable reference denotes that in the early years, photo booths were bound to be stationary. However this current and latest booth is very portable and has a video camera which allows music that you get to replay and sing along at whim.
Seriously who in their right state of mind would choose not to go to such a destination like Mazvikadei Dam Wall.
Dear readers the attraction is offering this niche on a silver platter as part of it’s activities. Notably, it is wise to be the first to experience such innovative stances that distinguishes and brings out the best in an itinerary.
Ladies and gentlemen, it will be a far cry for a tourist to visit a destination without pausing for a pic, be it from a camera, photo booth or even a smartphone. Ultimately, everyone is a sucker for a polaroid.
