Designing and Developing A Web Application for Tourism

Abstract

Currently, the industry of tourism is meeting many challenges; one of the key challenges is the deficiency of having smart tourism systems which take advantage of the recent progresses in communication and information technology. Another problem is the design of a smart tourism systems while adopting diversified sustainable values of experience of the tourists (emotional values, social values, functional values, and epistemic values). The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is characterized by the presence of many places of tourism, whether religious tourism or eco-tourism. The aim of this work is designing and implementing a web application named "travel key" that will help the tourists to get accurate and relevant information about the tourism places such as location, restaurants and events. The proposed application was designed and implemented by the Unified Modeling Language (UML), Microsoft Access 2010, and ASP.net, HTML, CSS, Visual basic programming languages. The proposed tourism system will be able to provide the tourists with recommendations for places to visit based on their preferences.