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Faso Tourisme Showcases Burkina Faso Tourist Sites in VR at SITHO

At Burkina Faso's SITHO fair, Faso Tourisme and Faso E-Sports gave visitors a free 360-degree VR tour of sites from Karfiguéla falls to Laongo's sculptures.

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Thanks to virtual reality, visitors can explore several tourist sites in Burkina Faso without leaving the professionals' pavilion.

Faso Tourisme, working with the Faso E-Sports association, ran a virtual reality stand in the professional exhibitors' pavilion at Burkina Faso's SITHO tourism fair in Ouagadougou, in production since September 2026. The free experience lets visitors tour national tourist sites — including the Karfiguéla falls, Lake Tengréla, the Samendéni dam, the Fabédougou domes, the Dioulassoba mosque, the Thomas Sankara Memorial, the Laongo sculptures and Tiébélé — without leaving the fairground, with the aim of making them want to visit in person.

How it works

  • Visitors sit in a chair that rotates 360 degrees and put on a VR headset with headphones for full immersion.
  • A pre-recorded video plays inside the headset, taking the visitor through each site from entrance to exit and showing the services available there.
  • Visitors sensitive to vertigo are asked to flag it beforehand, since some sequences give a sense of height.

Producing the content

  • Teams travel to each tourist site with 360-degree cameras to film the footage.
  • The footage is then edited and enriched with a voice-over narration before being loaded onto the VR headsets.

Quotes

“When a visitor arrives, we explain to them what virtual reality is so they don't feel lost. Then we offer them the immersion. We put them on a chair that can turn 360 degrees. When we put the headset on them, we also put headphones on them so they can be fully immersed. In the headset, a video is played and it shows the whole site from the entrance to the exit, with the services available on site.”

“I visited the Samendeni dam. It's very pretty. The setting is as if you were actually there.”

“Without having gone there, I discovered Tiébélé. It looked real. It's really impressive. It makes you travel while staying in place. I didn't know that was possible.”

“What I couldn't see, and regretted, were the hippopotamuses. I was expecting to see them. I wanted to relive past experiences.”

“It's step by step. Next time we'll do our utmost.”

“As soon as we put the headset on you, you'll find yourself, for example, at the Karfiguéla falls without being there, at Lake Tengréla, or at the Samendeni dam.”

“It was enriching as a way of learning about the culture. And to be honest, it was good.”

“It's as if I were in a village.”

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