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This study aims to highlight the role of virtual tourism and to accelerate the activation of its role to revitalize tourist destinations in light of the crisis in the world due to the virus of Covid-19. In addition, it identifies the most critical obstacles facing tourism in Algeria. The study concluded that virtual tourism is still absent in the tourism reality of Algeria, as all the web-designed site lacks the different techniques used in such a kind of tourism as virtual reality and augmented reality. The study gave some recommendations for developing virtual tourism as an important factor in stimulating tourism towards the Algerian tourist destination, especially in light of the international crisis of the virus of Covid-19.
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