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Smart Travel Guide: A Smart Way

Dr. Shivashankara S1, Pooja R2, Sadhwini3, Shashank Gowda H N4
1
Dept. of Computer Science and Engg., Government Engineering College, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka, India
2, 3, 4
UG Scholar, Dept. of Computer Science and Engg., Government Engineering College, Krishnarajapet, Karnataka, India

Abstract: The key objective of this paper is to examine the needs of visitors visiting to India and proposed an Android application
solution, which includes some fundamental advice for visitors to tourist areas. In this paper, an online mobile application is
created based on the needs of tourists, which can assist them while they are visiting tourist attractions. The paper also provides
the various features, development process, and outcome of the App and uses of our android application named “Smart Travel
Guide”. The proposed app provides many new features along the existing features of state of art apps. This novel Smart App
provides the better user-friendly result compared to existing travel guide Apps.
Keywords: Android App, Smart App, Travelers, Travel Guide, Tourists, Visitors

I. INTRODUCTION
Millions of tourists from other nations travel to India because it is a beautiful country with historical sites. There are several reasons
why foreigners travel to this nation. The main objective is tourism. In 2011, Lonely Planet ranked the nation as the best value
destination. Many reasons for visiting our nation includes official, business, historical and natural wonders, and educational
objectives. However, as foreigners living in India, they encounter some difficulties such as difficulty learning the local language,
finding transportation and other kinds of information.
Nowadays people have been moved so much into the modern technology that we really want an intelligent living environment along
with intelligent objects which contain powerful infrastructure with the most desired features. Thus,android mobile applications have
become very popular among the smart phone users. The mobile application and the web server are the two key elements around
which the system is built. GPS technology is utilized to transmit location data to the mobile device from the web server through the
mobile application. Through the creation of an Android application, created an online solution to address some of the needs of
tourists.
Remaining part of this paper is organized as follows: Section II covers the existing work of the domain; proposed system and system
architecture are discussed in section III and IV respectively; section V gives the pseudo code of the work; Section VI briefs the
Snapshots and Results; Conclusion is at section VII; at the end, reference is placed at section VII.

II. EXISTING WORKS

In 2012 [1], an architecture of mobile tourist guide system for Android Mobile Phones that is able to provide tourism information to
the mobile users conveniently is proposed. This system takes advantage of light-weighted mashup technology that can combine
more than one data sources to create value-added services, while overcomes the limitations of mobile devices.
An M-Travelling App is developed in 2012 [2], which presents four case studies carried out in four cities for one tourist, using a
total of 26 mobile applications. Analyzing the data collected in the case studies is possible to highlight some important features and
some problems in these applications[2].
Alexander et. al., in [3], presents category classification of mobile travel applications accessible at the moment for tourists in
application stores for most popular mobile operation systems (Android and iOS). The most interesting category is “Travel Guides”
that combines “Information Resources” and “Location-Based Services” category. Here, the application “Tourist assistant - TAIS”
that is related to “Travel Guides” category and recommends the tourist attractions around. Information about attractions is extracted
from different internet sources [3].
A Smart Travel Guide App is presented [4], which seeks to solve that problem by generating feature-rich texts, pictures, videos, and
any other guidance-related details requested by the users so they can explore tourist’s destinations better.
A tourists app is developed by comparing the features from other existing such apps, kanaka divya et. al., proposed an android
tourism app which will include all those functionalities which are best is the studied app. Along with that, they have added some
new features in it [5].

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As a thorough literature review, in the existing travel guide apps, the information delivery is not very effective. There was no
prediction of the ideal locations at cheap costs, unavailable network, not simple to use or user-friendly. Taking into account traveller
needs and the popularity of Android devices and apps, we came up with the idea of creating a mobile app for tourists and
newcomers in Tourist, one of India's most popular tourist destinations. Android is our platform of choice because it is open source
and is created and distributed by Google.
There may be certain improvements to our app's features that could be made to make it more user-friendly, effective, and efficient
based on the present constraints of our project. Search Nearby: This feature enables users to look up nearby businesses including
hotels, restaurants, and bookshops. Real-time translation services will be used to make conversations in restaurants, transportation,
and hotels interactive in real time. GPS Location Tracker: This feature will make the app more effective and organized by
automatically tracking the user's location rather than displaying it on the map. More Exact Route Information: The city can provide
the user with more precise route information for adjacent locations.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

The proposed App includes the three important models for distinct activities, which are as follows.

A. User Module
In user module, user can create an account in application and can access the information about the places or latest update.

B. Admin Module
In admin module, admin can access all the information that accessed by the user and can make changes, update the application
anytime for user friendly and can access the feedback of users.

C. Database Module
Database module that contain all the data accessed by the user for registers and feedback etc. database will lead to updating of
information in user account.

IV. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Architecture focuses on looking at a system as a combination of many different components, and how they interact with each other
to produce the desired result. It involves the process of defining a collection of hardware and software components and their
interfaces to establish the framework for the development of an android application. Figure 1 depicts the System Architecture,
which has mainly three parts to defined.

Figure 1. System Architecture

A. Front End Layer
The front end that uses to develop HTML, JAVA script, CSS technologies. The application that helps to make more effective and
perfect. Front end has 2 main actors i.e, Admin and User

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B. Middle Layer
In our project to interact between the actors and the database is done by the middle layer is used. The PHP is used to interact
between the user and the database. So that the data is stored effectively in the database and helps them to easy to fetch and display
from the database.

C. Database Layer
The MYSQL database is used to store the data into database. The effective analysis is done to create the database design and to store
the data. Every action related from the front end are accessed from the database by the PHP.

V. PSEUDOCODE OF THE WORK

The pseudo code of the proposed work is given as follows

A. Register Page
Form entry (); Establish the connection;
Get username;
Get Email
Get Password
If valid
Then create a session and prompt “registered successfully”;
Else
Display appropriate error message;
End.

B. Login Page
SelectEmail_Id, password from the User where Email_Id=? And Password=?
If Email_Id== NULL or Password=NULL Display error message
Else
If Email_Id = = Admin
Show the Admin Page
If Email_Id = = Service provider
Show the Service Provider Page
If Email_Id = = User
Show the User Page
If Email_Id = = place
Show the place Page

C. Upload Guide Information

Get Objectives
Get Input Image
Get guide id
Get about info
Query=Insert into tableExecutequey(query);

Data inserted Successfully

Message: Admin Has to Add guide details

Else
Please Check the form

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D. Admin
Select * from User;
Display list of all registered user based on email id
View Users
Delete User;

E. User
User success Login
Select * from places
Display place info
View all the Places and images details
Get direction
Search nearby place
View response
Select * from service;
Display list of all register services
Search nearby service
Send request for service
View response

VI. SNAPSHOTS AND RESULTS

The proposed work has many GUIs for Admin and Users as well. In this section, due to space constraints in the paper, only the
Admin Dashboard and User Dashboard has been presented. Figure 2 and Figure 3 shows the Admin and User Dashboard
respectively.

Figure 2. Admin Dashboard

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Figure 3. User Dashboard

For every research, there needs to be a results and discussion with positive negative remarks. Following tables from Table 1 to 3
explain the various tests carried out on the proposed work.

TABLE I
LOGIN PAGE RESULTS

Test # Description Expected Result Observed Result

1 If the Login Error Message “Enter Successful

Id/password is not Valid Login Id /Enter
entered Password” to be
displayed
2 If the login Error Message “Invalid Successful
Id/Password or both Login Credentials”
are incorrect

3 Enter profile Data should store in Successful

information for sign database
up

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TABLE II
TEST CASES WITH POSITIVE SCENARIOS
Test # Positive Scenario Required Input Expected Output Actual Output Test Result
1 Add place profile Enter details Should display the Displays the Pass
information message place post made
added success-ful
message
2 View place by user Should display the Should display the As Expected Pass
details details
3 Search Guide Select Guide Should display As expected Pass
Information details button Guide information
details
4 View nearby service Display service Shows the service As expected Pass
information Information details
5 Send feedback Send feedback to Enter details and Feedback sent Pass
admin send the feedback
6 View feedback Admin can view View feedback Display Pass
the feedback feedback
7 Admin can view the View registered View user Display user Pass
registered user users information information
details
8 Session Expiry Logout from the Session should Session Pass
site expire by erasing expires from
previous actions of logged out
users

TABLE III
TEST CASES WITH NEGATIVE SCENARIOS
Test # Negative Scenario Required Input Expected Output Actual Output Test Result
1 Verify login Page Enter a Invalid Should display Display error Pass
username and error message message
password
2 Verify Register Page Enter existing Should not register Cannot Pass
username register with
existing users
3 Fill the profile Skip some field in Display validation Display error Pass
information profile form information message
4 Search tourist place Skip region details Display validation Display Pass
information validation
information
5 Send Request Make blank Should Not update Display no Pass
information by skip updates updates
input field

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VII. CONCLUSION
In this paper, an effort has been placed to highlight the existing work, system architecture, proposed work, pseudo code of the work
and finally snapshots and results. This Android application includes traveller needs and the current trend toward the use of android
devices. The majority of the needs that traveller frequently have can be met by the application and the user-friendliness of the app
has been preserved. For Indians, who are new to the city of Karnataka, the app may be useful. This application provides platform for
Tourist Guide. This helps tourists to benefited with the features as mentioned in the earlier sections above. There may be certain
improvements to this app's features that could be made to make it more user-friendly, effective and efficient based on the present
constraints of our project.

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