Move over Kardashians. Reality-TV fans could soon have a new addiction, with smartphone users around the world now able to broadcast live and unedited content at will using Periscope.
Some of these international “scopers” – who have amassed millions of followers since they started using the app, which was launched in March – were in Dubai last week to provide the world with a virtual window to Emirati culture and the UAE’s tourist destinations.
Dubai Tourism hosted their first “Scopers Meet” last week, with six users from Europe, the United States and Australia touring the city and live-streaming their daily sightseeing.
“We thought this was going to be an interesting way of showing the city to people all over the world,” says Aida Al Busaidy, the senior manager of Stakeholder Communications at Dubai Tourism. “We normally promote the UAE as a tourist destination through images or media, but this is something very different. We thought, why don’t we try it because we haven’t seen any other tourism authority use this platform in this way.”
Busaidy and her team worked with Euro Maestro – a popular full-time scoper and social commentator in France, who broadcasts footage from his travels to tourist destinations, technology conventions and concerts – to develop the agenda for the tour.
Original article by Afshan Ahmed
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