Towards Tourism Management Platform for Culinary Tourism Management and Merchandise E- Catalogs

Abstract

A Smart village is a concept as a modern global approach for the tourism development community and creative industries. The rapid development of technology makes information technology one of the primary needs in business. Technology utilization in Indonesia is a community-based tourism approach for a tourist village to be a smart village. Technology expects to facilitate collective information from various tourism awareness groups (or ‘POKDARWIS’ in Bahasa Indonesia) and business owners, such as culinary and merchandise businesses that can support the progress of tourist village (or ‘Desa Wisata’ in Bahasa Indonesia) destinations. However, when viewed from the optimization of the implementation of tourist villages, many still need more information about the attractiveness of tourist villages in Indonesia even though the tourist village itself is a form of village development innovation, one of Indonesia's targets of government programs. Moreover, due to this lack of knowledge, many tourists need more information regarding tourist village facilities and services, such as culinary and merchandise. In this paper, we present the development of a web-based tourism management platform that aims to promote culinary and local merchandise through a tourism management platform. This platform makes it easy for tourists or visitors to make online orders, purchases, and payments. Business actors can also manage culinary and merchandise businesses through the system. The prototype system of the tourism management platform develops using the agile method in six phases: concept, inception, iteration, testing, production, and review. The tourism management platform is tested on the User at the soft-launching events and runs as expected.