Use of 3D technology in underground tourism

all over the world. People started to take advantage of computer
technology to compensate for the lack of possibility of leaving their
homes. Virtual travel, which can be conducted in many different
ways, has become one of the ways of using this technology.
Therefore, analyses have been carried out to investigate the
possibility of applying 3D technology to promote underground
tourist attractions. The Underground Tourist Route in Rzeszow
(Poland) and the underground of the Old City Hall in Lviv
(Ukraine) were selected as the research objects. They were
inventoried with the terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) method and
with the application of the Faro Focus 3D laser scanner. Then films
demonstrating virtual tour around the inventoried objects were
created based on the clouds of points obtained during the
measurements. As a part of the research, it was verified whether
these methods could encourage people to visit the researched
objects more than their standard advertisements presented on the
Internet. The evaluation was performed with the use of a semantic
differentiation test. The survey research carried out for this purpose
was implemented using the CAWI technique. The questionnaires
were available for the respondents from the last week of April 2020
to the first week of July 2020. The size of the researched group
accounted for 393 people. The respondents came from 23 countries
on 5 continents. The obtained results confirm that the use of 3D
technology in the promotion of tourist attractions may be a good
decision.