Intelligent tourism systems for smart travel recommendation

• Main Author: Tan, Jessileen Li Ting
• Other Authors: Hoi Chu Hong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Special-purpose and application-based systems; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Software::Software engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59208
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this project, it aims is to provide users with smart travelling recommendations such that it will be easier for users to obtain travel information. Therefore, this project comprises of 2 demo systems, the web-based approach and the mobile application approach. In the web-based approach, its objective is to gather travel information regarding the country’s landmarks and display on the website. With the capability of running the website dynamically, it is able the do a conversion from an XML data to html file. By running on a python file, it helps in saving the time on the maintenance to the website. With the addition of implementing CSS and JavaScript to the html file, it gives off a simple design layout with several slideshows attached to display the various landmarks images with different angles of the country. In the 2nd part of the project on mobile application approach, it sets on using android OS to develop a mobile application. It comprises with various features such as displaying all landmarks on the map and able to search for neighboring landmarks based on the users current location. In addition, the application is able to route out a path to show directions from their current location to the landmarks. With these interesting features, its ambition is to provide users with a satisfied travel application and with a different approach of getting travel information in a more convenient way.