Introduction Educational technology has achieved great development in recent decades and Virtual Field Trips (VFT) are certainly one of them. This article will mainly discuss the definition of VFT, why it is needed, an example of its application with screenshots, advantages and disadvantages; provide information on its future development and excellent links to resources. Teachers and educators will be most interested in this document because it will improve their current understanding of VFTs, show them future directions, and introduce them to several useful and practical websites. What is Virtual Field Trips (VFT)? Foley (2001) writes,…Virtual journeys are explorations across the Web, typically an organized set of links with a particular theme. Some trips simply consist of a list of links on a web page, while other trips use some type of navigator (or buttons) to move around the tour. At its best, it is a guided, annotated tour of pages on the Web that have been selected by educators and organized into a "thread" that students can follow from page to page or site to site" ( The Big Pocket Guide to Using & Creating Virtual Field Trips, Foley, 2001.) It is important to note that “virtual” here means “alternative digital representations of reality.” that of fully engaging the user involved in an interactive computer-generated environment using sensors and input devices such as data gloves and suits and output devices such as head-mounted displays and surround sound systems. Instead, a VFT is simply an attempt to give greater autonomy for users, from...... half of the document ...... born today: an interactive casebook (http://www.wiley.com/college/ford test/index.html).Garcia , J.M. ( 1993) The development of the electronic field trip to strengthen and enrich the existing K-12 curriculum. Doctoral thesis, Oklahoma State University. Gilmour, I. (1997) Skiddaw Virtual Field Trip. A study of thermal metamorphism (http://earth2.open.ac.uk/Skiddaw/Text/Skiddaw.html).Jenkins, A. & Williams, N. (1997) The aims and objectives of a virtual field course (http ://www.geog.le.ac.uk /ufc/publications /paper001.html). Stainfield, J., Fisher, P., Ford, B., & Solem, M. (2000). International Virtual Educational Trips: A New Direction? Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 24(2), 255–263UNWIN, D. (1996) The Virtual Field Course (Den Haag, International Geographical Union, Commission on Geographic Education Workshop on Geography Teaching over the Internet).