Faroe Islands Offer Remote Tourism
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While people can't travel, the Faroe Islands are offering remote tours that let people use the internet to control a tour guide and see the archipelago's small towns and volcanic islands.

The tours were started to help sustain global interest in the North Atlantic islands, where tourism has recently become an important industry. It will also help people in lockdown see more of the world.

The idea is to make people want to come and experience the Faroe Islands in real life, said Levi Hanssen from the tourist board.

Local guides wear helmets with cameras on them and take online audiences across the archipelago while also providing information.

"If you ask them to go left, they go left. If you ask them to jump, they jump. If you ask them to run, they run," said Hanssen.

Nearly 50,000 people joined the first four-hour-long tours, which are offered for free, said Hanssen. Most people were trying to get one of the one-minute-long slots for controlling the guide, which are given to whoever signs up for them first.

The tours will continue until at least April 25 and will be shown on the tourist board's website, and on its Facebook and Instagram pages. There are also plans for a kayak tour, a horse ride and more.

The Faroe Islands are home to 50,000 people, most of whom live in Torshavn, the capital city. There have been less than 200 cases of COVID-19 on the archipelago and no deaths.

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