Mobile Recommendation System for Culinary Tourism Destination using KNN (K-nearest neighbor)

Abstract

Currently culinary tourism is becoming very popular among the Indonesian people. People make visits to interesting culinary places. They want to visit a culinary place that is strategic, comfortable, and cheap as their culinary destination. The culinary destination in Yogyakarta that continues to grow every year makes the tourists who will visit be confused to determine the location of culinary tourism that they will choose. Travelers need references and recommendations to help them determine culinary destinations that meet their expectations. Mobile devices and application guides are able to gather information about an environment and suggest certain places such as tourism locations, based on context factors such as location, weather conditions, and the time needed to get there. The purpose of this study is to develop a recommendation system for culinary tourism destinations in Yogyakarta based on mobile using the KNN (K-nearest neighbor) algorithm. The method used in this study consists of five main steps: literature study, identification, data collection, implementation, and evaluation. The recommendation system is based on previous user ratings of food taste, environmental atmosphere, price, service and distance between users and location. The weight of each criterion is tailored to the needs of the user. The results showed that the mobile application recommendation system was able to provide recommendations to users to determine culinary tourism destinations in Yogyakarta in accordance with the parameters of user desires.