虚拟旅游是高科技和信息化时代的产物,本文通过剖析虚拟旅游的特征,指出对传统旅游的影响,探讨虚拟旅游在发展中面临的问题同时,展望了未来虚拟旅游的应用方向。虚拟现实技术给旅游业带来了一次科技革命,催生了虚拟旅游这一新生事物。改革开放以来,我国旅游发展走过了点式旅游、线式旅游、面式旅游和时空旅游四个阶段,目前进入了虚拟旅游时代。虚拟旅游是指现实旅游景观通过网络平台逼真 Virtual tour is the result of high-tech and information age. This paper analyzes the characteristics of virtual tour, points out the impact on traditional tour, discusses the problems that Virtual Tour faces in the development, and looks forward to the future application of virtual tour. Virtual reality technology to the tourism industry has brought a revolution in science and technology, gave birth to the virtual tourism of this new thing. Since the reform and opening up, China’s tourism development has gone through four stages of point tourism, line tourism, surface tourism and space tourism, and now it has entered a virtual tourism era. Virtual tour refers to the realistic travel landscape realistic through the network platform