Tourism recommendation

Description

Tourism recommendation

ABSTRACT

The main objective of the project is to develop a system that gives data relating to the particular place. Any information, guidance, displayed advertisements on this web site reaches ample potential customers.  Tourism recommendation project is principally helpful for the tourist’s having no plan concerning the places they need to go to. By providing a geographic based mostly system the tourists and other people shifting to new cities will get more robust steerage of the places they need to go to. Additionally the users will give their expertise on the tour which can facilitate the new users to go to the place.

CHAPTER 1 –INTRODUCTION

Mobile phones have evolved in the past few years such that they have a variety of input capabilities, large screens, reliable and unlimited Internet access, and powerful location awareness function (Want 2009). Importantly, the increased capabilities of mobile phones (i.e., smartphones) support thousands of mobile applications (apps) which extend the functionality of mobile phones to a wide range of information services such as specialized information search, social networking, navigation, etc. Indeed, recent studies indicate that smartphones and their apps have the potential to assist travelers by providing easy access to information anytime and (almost) anywhere (Brown and Chalmers 2003; O’Brien and Burmeister 2003; Rasinger, Fuchs, and Hopken 2007). Further, Kramer, Modsching, Hagen, and Gretzel (2007) found that travelers’ activities can be easily changed by the use of smartphones.

And more recently, Tussyadiah and Fesenmaier (2009) and Wang, Park, and Fesenmaier (2010) found that smartphones can mediate both the behavioral and psychological dimensions of the touristic experience by facilitating information search, information processing, and information sharing, by enabling a traveler to learn about new travel opportunities and get to know better a destination, and by sharing photos and other ‘social’ activities at any time during the trip. In order to further understand the role of smartphones in mediating the touristic experience, this study examines tourists’ stories about the use of smartphones in helping their travel. The rest of this paper is organized into four sections. The next section provides a brief overview of the literature describing the conceptual foundation of the touristic experience and discusses the relationships between smartphones, tourist information needs, and touristic 3 experience. The sampling and data analysis methods are described in the following section. In the results section, the mediation mechanisms are identified and illustrated in detail using ten interpretive s of tourists’ stories describing their use of travel-related smartphone apps. Last, the results are discussed focusing on future research and the marketing implications of increasingly adoption of smartphones.

Travel is a process in which tourists leave the place where they usually live and travel to different places, interact with the objects and people in those places, and document travel memories in the formats of photos and videos (Clawson 1963; Cohen 1979; Tussyiadiah and Fesenmaier 2009). Some scholars suggest that travel is a “linear” process and have defined touristic experience from a temporal perspective (Graburn 1989; Craig-Smith and French 1994; Jennings 1997, 2006) and involves three phases: 1) the anticipatory phase; 2) the experiential phase; and 3) the reflective phase (Clawson 1963; Craig-Smith and French 1994). Within these phases, tourists complete a series of activities such as information search, planning, reservation, visiting, shopping, dining, and reflection. Besides the core activities of tourism, social and environmental activities have been recognized to be important part of the overall touristic experience (Anderick, Bricker, Kerstetter, and Nickerson 2006).

Therefore from the temporal perspective, the tourist experience is an “activity-based” process. Considering that experiences are reflective and inherently personal (Holbrook and Hurschman 1982; Pine and Gilmore 1999), some scholars argue that the touristic experience lies “beyond” the temporal dimension (Jennings et al. 2009). For example, Urry (1990) introduced the concept of tourist gaze in arguing that the touristic experience is different for each individual 4 because the tourist subjectively objectifies and interprets the places he/she visits. Uriely (2005) echoed this viewpoint by suggesting further that the diverse characteristics of the touristic experience can be explained by the diversity of tourist motivations. Botterill and Crompton (1996) also explored the touristic experience from individual perspective based on personal construct theory (PCT) and concluded that tourists have “idiosyncratic ways of seeing” (p. 77), and that their understanding of the touristic experience cannot be separated from travelers’ psychological processes and emotional states.

The literature also indicates that travel is a sense-making process, in which travelers construct the touristic experience by learning, understanding, and feeling the places visited and the culture embedded in these places (Jennings and Weiler 2006). The places visited and cultures experienced are connected to tourists by stakeholders, including tourists, tourist providers, governments, communities and indigenous groups. As such, these stakeholders mediate the touristic experience by (mis)representing and/or being part of the tourism context. One of the well-known examples of mediators in the tourism setting is the tour guide; indeed, Cohen (1985) argues that contemporary tour guides serve a mediatory role in that they link tourists to locals (social mediation) and translate “the strangeness of a foreign culture into a cultural idiom familiar to the visitors” (p. 15) (cultural brokerage).

The development of mass media and technology enriches the meaning of mediation in tourism context. In the context of communication, mediation includes two components: (1) circulated messages and (2) the technological apparatus and media forms enabling the circulation (Lash and Friedman 1992). Tourists first get connected with the destinations/ attractions through messages circulated by the media such as film, TV, literature, magazines, and videos, which direct “tourists gaze” by constructing and reinforcing tourists’ anticipation to visit places (Urry, 1990). Based on the spatial appropriation, which is related to people’s mobility in different spaces, Jansson (2002, p. 435) organized the media into a three-dimension mediascape including “symbiotic mode (i.e. documentaries, photography)”, “antagonistic mode (i.e. tourism brochures, souvenirs)”, and “contextual mode (i.e. sport programmes, movies)”. And he further argues that different modes of mediascape induce a diversity of travel modes in the social and physical landscapes. android app project ideas Thus, travel becomes “a hermeneutic circle” (Lagerkvist, 2008, p. 349) in which tourists make plans before trips according to messages communicated by the media and follow the planned tracks.

Smartphones, as one kind of new media, now can provide a wide range of information services to support not only main travel activities such as planning, reservation, navigation, but many “micro-moments” within the travel process such as finding gas stations, estimating waiting time of rides etc (Wang, Park, and Fesenmaier 2010). Thus, travelers’ information needs can be addressed anytime in the travel process including anticipatory phase, experiential phase, and reflective phase (Gretzel, Fesenmaier, and O’Leary 2006). For example, within the experiential phase (i.e., during the trip), smartphones provide access to location-based services (i.e. “destination guides” apps) can recognize the current location of tourists and provide relevant suggestions based on tourists’ inquiries including restaurants, souvenir shops, gas stations and even a restroom. Thus, tourists may divert from their current route and initiate unplanned 7 activities. Also, some “entertainment” apps enable tourists to plot photos onto a  immediately after photo-taking and share these photos with social networking websites. In this way, travelers can keep their friends up to date and enjoy feedback about their on-going travel experience. These evidence suggests the role of smartphones in mediating touristic experience. That is, smartphones have potential to construct the “mediated gaze” (Lagerkvist 2008, p. 351) for the tourists and create the anticipation of potential tourists through traveler’s experience sharing activities.

Mobile tourism apps are the perfect service for any visitor. Your quests will have all tourist information right on their smartphone while visiting your city region. Tourism apps can be designed beautifully, just like you want, anyway you want. Where will visitors find your Accommodations or Hotels? Where are the Restaurants? A mobile tourism app will guide your visitors and enlighten their stay. Most likely you´ll see them again someday.

Mobile applications, frequently referred to as apps, are a type of software application explicitly developed to run on a mobile device such as smartphones or tablets (Technopedia, n.d.). Traditionally, mobile apps often reflect similar services as the ones provided on a PC. However, some of the most successful apps are rather built on the concept of making use of the unique features of mobile devices. Today, mobile devices share a number of powerful characteristics such as big displays, Internet access, context-relevant push notifications, location tracking functionality (Want, 2009) and health tracking that enable consumers to enhance their every day activities.

Outstanding examples of such companies range from mobile messaging apps such as What’s App to last-minute booking apps like HotelTonight and location based services like  s, all of which share the concept of ”mobile first” meaning that the product was specifically designed for mobile usage. Mobile applications have been first popularized by Apple with the introduction of its App Store soon followed by ’s Play Store which both offer a storefront for developers to distribute their software to consumers since 2008. As of today, both Apple and  feature some 1.2 to 1.3 million applications (Statista, 2013) in their respective app stores accumulating for total revenue of $ 26 billion in 2013 (Statista, 2013), a number which can be expected to rapidly grow within the next five years, according to Statista (2013), the world’s leading statistics company on the Internet, which further forecasts mobile generated revenue to surpass the $ 75 billion mark by 2017. Other notable tech companies, who have recently followed up on the idea of creating an app ecosystem on its devices for their users, include Blackberry, Amazon, Samsung, which are led by Windows with 300.000 apps as illustrated in figure 3 below. Thus indicating that the mobile world is far from being saturated and still sees vast potential for growth in the near future.

Use location module to give your visitors the most complete list of all the nearby attractions, organized by category.

An application designed for municipalities and organizations who want to offer a free product for tourists where they gather information about the city, tourist routes, places of interest, monuments, where to eat, where to sleep, leisure, nightlife, shopping.

A great number of mobile phone applications appeared recently, many of which are location – related. Location-dependent services, which answer location-related queries, are an important class of context-aware applications. With kinds of promising applications, like local information obtain (traffic condition, navigation messages and so on) and neighboring environment queries, such as finding the nearest restaurant, location dependent query service will soon become an necessary part of our daily lives.

Developing the traveller guide application that helps new users (traveller) to find out city wise dealer stores, hotels, visiting spots with modules. The most visited and frequently asked categories will appear at the top of the list by using Search engine optimization.

Nowadays, people’s consumption structure is improving steadily. There has been a large increase in the number of people out on tours, for the sake of recreation and entertainment. Tourism is the strongest and largest industry in the global economy world, generating an estimated 11% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) and employing 200 million people and serving 700 million tourists worldwide-a figure which is expected to double by the year 2020.Meanwhile, there is greatly enriched travel information provided to the tourists on the Internet. However, a problem is shown that tourists are not able to get travel information timely when they are on the move.

Therefore, we intend to explore how to build a mobile tourist guide system based on mash up technology to solve this problem. Current mobile services are enhanced with location aware features, providing the user with better use experience. A great number of mobile phone applications appeared recently, many of which are location – related. Location-dependent services, which answer location-related queries, are an important class of context-aware applications. With kinds of promising applications, like local information obtain (traffic condition, navigation messages and so on) and neighboring environment queries, such as finding the nearest restaurant, location dependent query service will soon become an necessary part of our daily lives. We will describe the design, implementation and deployment of a location-based application, named Smart Travel Guide, with the mobile phone as a platform. This application permitted users to get tour guidance information they need anytime and anywhere. In particular, the tourist data could be browsed or queried through an Internet  service such as  Ma ps. The mobile client’s current location is one of the most important information for location related system.

Mobile phones need to report their own locations to the remote server periodically, so that the information they want can be suitably queried. From the point of view of the service, the simplest method of locating is to let user tell his or her location, but this method requires extra effort because the user needs to define his or her location and input it to the system. The user can be located with different positioning systems. The advantage of this method is that the users do not need any extra equipment.  has become a mainstay of transportation system worldwide. It provides accurate location information for an unlimited number of people anywhere in the world.  satellites broadcast signals from space which are picked up and identified by the receivers, then the receiver are provided with three dimensional locations: latitude, longitude and altitude.

If the user device includes module which is becoming increasingly common in current mobile devices, the user’s location can be defined very accurately.[1] Android platform is of open system architecture, with versatile development and debugging environment, but also supports a variety of scalable user experience, which has optimized graphics systems, rich media support and a very powerful browser. It enables reuse and replacement of components and an efficient database support and support various wireless communication mean Android also supports , Video Camera, compass, and 3d-accelerometer and provides rich APIs for  and location functions.

Users can flexibly access, control and process the free   and implement location based mobile service in his mo bile systems at low cost. Android platform will not only promote the technology (including the platform itself) of innovation, but also help to reduce development costs, and enable developers to form their mobile systems with unique characteristics. Developing the traveller guide application that helps new users (traveller) to find out city wise dealer stores, hotels, visiting spots with. The most visited and frequently asked categories will appear at the top of the list by using Search engine optimization.

Brown & Chalmers (2003) write that “tourists deliberately make plans that are not highly structured and specific, so that they can take advantage of changing circumstances.” Although the planning behaviour among travellers vary this is highly relevant for mobile travel applications. A traveller that makes detailed plans has a lesser need for information “here and now” compared to travellers that do some planning or almost no planning regarding what to do while they are at the destination. The paper by Echtibi et al (2009) which describes the system and architecture of Murshid, a mobile guide for the United Arab Emirates. This is a recent paper, but most of the literature on the use of mobile guides is not new because they were written in research projects such as EU-projects 5 to 10 years ago (Cheverst et al. 2000a, 2000b), Baus et al. (2005).

However, there is an extensive literature on travellers in the planning stage for instance their use of information sources (Snepenger & Snepenger, 1993), (Fodness & Murray, 1998), (Pan & Fesenmaier, 2006). In general the literature on traveller information needs and use of mobile applications and devices in situ is scattered and fragmented. However, some if the research on information sources in the planning stage is also useful in situ. In the planning stage some of the information search relates the choice of destination, how to get there and accommodation. Although some travellers do not book accommodations in advance, for the waste majority of travellers the information needs in situ are not related to these issue such as how to get there and accommodation.

Fodness & Murray (1997) state that: “Leisure tourists differ in their information search behavior such that homogenous groups can be formed on the direction of their search, defined by the specific source(s) used.” Vogt & Fesenmaier (1998) distinguish the information sources into several categories: social, personal, marketing, and editorial. Content on a mobile device could be of all these types. It is particularly relevant to provide content for spontaneous travellers, travellers that do little detailed planning regarding what to do before the trip. A guide on mobile device has some features that distinguish it from a guide on a laptop or stationary PC. The screen is much smaller and typing cannot be done on a full qwerty keyboard. Therefore usability is a challenge. Kjeldskov et al. (2005) discuss some of these issues in their paper on mobile guides and  applications. What is the purpose of a mobile guide or mobile application made for travellers in situ? There is not a simple answer to this question, but one approach is to ask what, how, when and where Brown & Chalmers (2003). In the following these four keywords are used as a backdrop for the next section on requirements for mobile applications.

 

While mobile applications in its original form were designed to run on traditional mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, recent developments in consumer electronics have foreshown the evolution of wearable technology, an industry believed to become a $ 1.6 trillion business in the near future, analysts at Morgan Stanley report, according to Derrick (2014). The main characteristic of so-called wearables is that they are worn on a user’s body or are directly attached to their body, Derrick further explains. And while wearable devices are still at an early stage, we have already seen quite a diverse range of different wearable products. The most notable ideas include smart watches, fitness tracking wristbands and intelligent glasses.

1.1  Objectives

Using this application user while in travel. This app make they trip will be easier to find hotel, accommodations and restaurants.

1.2  System Specifications

Hardware Requirements:-

• Windows OS

Software Requirements: –

Operating System :   Windows OS

Front-End            :    HTML, CSS, and JS

Back-End             :    Angular JS, PHP, MYSQL

Tool                     :     Cordova

CHAPTER 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW

In the tourism industry, tourist information is obtained mainly through newspaper, magazines, radio and other simple ways those are available easily. But problem is that tourists are not able to get travel information timely when they are on the move. While today’s mobile devices are becoming more intelligent, compared with PC, they still have the following limitations like small screen and tiny keyboard, limited CPU capacity, limited memo ry space, slow and fitful Internet connection. Many mobiles of recent decades have travel guide application. But the application on these mobiles works slow due to continues acquisition of the bandwidth. Therefore, the mobile end – user’s operation is very difficult, and the contents display on the screen of mobile device is limited. This activity relies on knowledge of the hardware, software, workload, and monitoring tools associated with the system under study. It also requires access to information recorded by accounting and software monitors during system operation. Here, we describe general In the tourism industry, tourist information is obtained mainly through newspaper, magazines, radio and other simple ways those are available easily. But problem is that tourists are not able to get travel information timely when they are on the move. While today’s mobile devices are becoming more intelligent, compared with PC, they still have the following limitations like small screen and tiny keyboard, limited CPU capacity, limited memory space, slow and fitful Internet connection. Many mobiles of recent decades have travel guide application. But the application on these mobiles works slow due to continues acquisition of the bandwidth. Therefore, the mobile end-user’s operation is very difficult, and the contents display on the screen of mobile device is limited.

The application aims to develop detailed texts, pictures, videos and other guidance information are provided, and so people can better understand the tourist attractions and make decision objectively. A problem is shown that tourists are not able to get travel information timely when they are on the move. Therefore, we intend to explore how to build a mobile tourist guide system based on mash up technology to solve this problem. it is the next-gen travel guide. It has selected for you the best activities, hotels and restaurants in city. Flexible  display and control functions and location support are provided in Android for mobile system design.. It can accept the keyboard events such as onKeyDown and on Key Up to support the  movement and the zoom feature. It also supports multi-layer Overlay and user can draw coordinates, pictures and strings on the . View is s et up only by Activity. Because View uses the file system and network in the background, all of these threads are in the control of the Activity life cycle.

 EXISTING SYSTEM:

In the present system a customer has to approach various agencies to find details of places and to book tickets. This often requires a lot of time and effort. A customer may not get the desired information from these offices and often the customer may be misguided. It is tedious for a customer to plan a particular journey and have it executed properly

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

The proposed system is a web based application and maintains a centralized repository of all related information. The system allows one to easily access the relevant information and make necessary travel arrangements. Users can decide about places they want to visit and make bookings online for travel and accommodation.

CHAPTER 3 OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM

3.1 Module Description

The system is proposed to have the following modules: This app enhanced level of categories for Tourism App.

3.2 System Features

In the life of the software development, problem analysis provides a base for design and development phase. The problem is analyzed so that sufficient matter is provided to design a new system. Large problems are sub-divided into smaller once to make them understandable and easy for finding solutions. Same in this project all the task are sub-divided and categorized.

System Modules:

• User

USER

• Register
• Login
• View Details
• Search Place – Town, Locality
• Post Tourism Details
• Update Tourism Details
• Give recommendation likes
• Delete tourism

Module Description

USER

• Register

At first, user must register their details to get login details.

• Login

Once they get login details (username, password) they can use their account for further process.

• View Details

User’s account will permit them to view the details provided by the admin and other existing users.

• Search Place – Town, Locality

They can search places by filtering by town or locality to choose the perfect place for the trip.

• Post Tourism Details

User can also have the details of post tourism experiences of many people who have visited the particular place.

• Update Tourism Details

Every user is allowed to provide their own post tourism experience after visiting the suggested place.

• Give recommendation likes

Recommendation likes by the users will be useful in prioritizing the place lists.

• Delete tourism

User may delete the tourism details at any time.