Wu Wenhou, President of the World Fujian Youth Federation: Using the "Meta-Universe" to empower Fuzhou's cultural tourism industry

Source: China News Network

Wu Wenhou, member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the World Fujian Youth Federation. Photo by Yan Xu

Fuzhou, January 21 (Xinhua) -- "The covid-19 pandemic has hit the global cultural tourism industry hard, and the 'meta-universe' allows people stranded at home in the post-epidemic era to experience the world's famous attractions without leaving their homes." Wu Wenhou, member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, general manager of Xiamen Feile Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. in South China, and president of the World Fujian Youth Federation, said in an interview with China News Network reporter on the 21st.

The Fifth Session of the 12th CPPCC Fujian Provincial Committee opened in Fuzhou on the 21st. "Using the 'Metacosm' to Empower Fuzhou's Cultural Tourism Industry" is Wu Wenhou's suggestion at the meeting.

At the group meeting held in the afternoon of the same day, Wu Wenhou suggested that in the future, Fuzhou City can use digital technology and "meta-universe" to build a global-oriented digital tourism meta-universe culture exhibition hall to realize that many people can visit virtual attractions together.

At present, Fuzhou is actively integrating into the construction of the National Digital Economy Innovation and Development Pilot Zone, creating a digital industry cluster of 100 billion yuan such as software and optoelectronics, creating a national-level network audio-visual industry base and building a "digital application city", and creating a number of digital application scenario integration demonstration areas and incubators. Changle East Lake Digital Town has attracted a large number of network giants to settle down, and the digital Fujian VR "double creation" industry incubation base has been put into use.

In Wu Wenhou's view, this makes Fuzhou fully qualified, capable and advantageous to lay out the "meta-universe" related industries in advance, emphasizing the "meta-universe" of "sense of presence" and "immersive experience", which is just in line with the direction of the development of Fuzhou's cultural tourism industry in the digital era.

"The 'meta-universe' to empower Fuzhou's cultural tourism industry requires a mature business model and application scenarios that can be landed." Wu Wenhou said. Therefore, he suggested creating a "meta-universe" escape room, theater, concert and even script killing; at the same time, relying on the cultural characteristics of Mindu with great regional characteristics such as Sanfang Qixiang and Ship Administration Culture, the layout of multi-format immersive cultural tourism products such as "cultural tourism + technology", "cultural tourism + performing arts" and "cultural tourism + script killing" is laid out.

Wu Wenhou also suggested that a virtual children's theme park can be built in Fuzhou, including museum experience, zoo feeding experience, science fiction world experience, etc.

At the same time, Wu Wenhou believes that the positioning of the future "meta-universe" in the cultural tourism industry is more like an auxiliary product of tourism, and it is difficult to completely replace real tourism, and the core essence of the development of tourism "meta-universe" lies in the combination of virtual and real and the integration of scenarios.

"It doesn't matter where you travel, what matters is who you enter the 'metaverse' with, which is what we need to consider." He said that from the perspective of innovative application of new digital technologies, through virtual reality, digital twins, application of blockchain, 5G, AR/VR and other digital technologies, the implementation of digital space projection of tourism cultural resources, in order to extend the tourism service ecological chain, and gradually explore the formation of a tourism and cultural "metacosm" with Fuzhou characteristics that is mainly based on reality, with reality as the theme and virtual and real as the combination. (Reporter Yan Xu Source: China News Network)