K-Nearest Neighbors Method for Recommendation System in Bangkalan’s Tourism

Abstract

The more tourist objects are in an area, the more challenging it is for local governments to increase the selling value of these attractions. The government always strives to develop tourist attraction areas by prioritizing the beauty of tourist attractions. However, visitors often have difficulty in determining tourist objects that match their criteria because of the many choices. The research developed a tourist attraction recommendation system for visitors by applying machine learning techniques. The machine learning technique used was the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) method. Several trials were conducted with a dataset of 315 records, consisting of 11 attributes and 21 tourist attractions. Based on the dataset, the preprocessing stage was previously carried out to improve the data format by selecting data where the data were separated based on existing criteria, then calculating the closest distance and determining the value of k in the KNN method. The results are divided into five folds for each classification method. The highest system accuracy obtained at KNN is 78% at k=1. It shows that the KNN method can provide recommendations for three tourist attraction classes in Bangkalan. Applying the KNN method in the recommendation system determines several alternative tourist objects that tourists can visit according to their criteria in natural, cultural, and religious tourist objects.