Tourism Applications Research Articles

Peran Aplikasi “Visiting Jogja” dalam Mengembalikan Kepercayaan Wisatawan untuk Berwisata ke Yogyakarta

Covid-19 made several countries adopt lock-down policies as an effort to break the chain of spreading the virus. However, this policy greatly affects sectors related to the daily mobility of people, especially the tourism sector which has been most significantly affected by Covid-19. One of the provinces in Indonesia that has experienced a major loss in the tourism sector due to Covid-19 is the Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY). Therefore, the DIY government gradually continues to encourage the tourism sector to resume operations, one of which is by releasing new applications for tourists, namely "Jogja Pass" and "Visiting Jogja" to monitor visitors to tourism destinations in DIY. In this study the author will focus on studying the application "Visiting Jogja". The purpose of this research is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of the "Visiting Jogja" application from the user's point of view, and to find out whether the "Visiting Jogja" application can help restore the confidence of tourists to travel to Yogyakarta. This study uses qualitative research methods, with data collection techniques through direct interviews with 10 respondents as a sample who is determined randomly. The results show that the application "Visiting Jogja" can provide assurance for tourists, which helps generate confidence in users to visit more tourism attractions in Yogyakarta. However, the government's efforts in socializing and promoting the “Visiting Jogja” application to the public are still lacking.

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality-Based Technology in Cultural Tourism

The paper intends to scrutinize the effects of augmented (AR) reality and virtual reality (VR) technology implementation in cultural tourism. Therefore, the paper explored and presented the following: (i) AR, and VR (AR/VR) based technology concept in general, (ii) AR/VR technologies application in cultural tourism with an emphasis on their potential to protect cultural heritage; (iii) the overview of AR/VR presence in cultural tourism in the 27 European Union countries (EU-27). In the discussion part, besides empirical results based on the EU-27 desk research, AR/VR technologies in cultural tourism are additionally reconsidered from the aspect of climate change. In conclusion, what is encouraged is the application of AR/VR in cultural tourism due to the benefits AR and VR bring in terms of (i) delivering quite substantial content to their visitors any time from any place, (ii) reducing the negative impact of tourism on cultural heritage and (iii) developing related strategies based on more sustainable principles and concepts.
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Implementing Augmented reality in Tourism

Abstract. Modern technology is becoming a necessity of many destinations to stay competitive and attractive to the tourist. A new form of technology that is being used increasingly is Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR). The aim of this paper is to display the development of a mobile AR tourism application in urban heritage called PazinAR. Although Augmented Reality has passed the initial hype stage, the technology is just on the verge of being implemented in the tourism industry. This paper describes preparation, design, implementation and execution of prototype touristic application based on Augmented Reality (AR) technology. The application was made using Unity software and AR SDK Vuforia and exported as Android applications. Created application enables overlapping old photos with current view. Furthermore, several significant implications for AR Tourism research and practice are revealed.

Impact of Mobile Applications in Changing the Tourist Experience

Abstract This exploratory study investigates the impact of technology on the tourist experience. This research analyzed the effect of new technologies on the behaviour of new tourism consumers, the importance of mobile technology in the tourism industry, and the phenomenon of mobile tourism in the change of the tourism experience. It also studied the spillover effect that these changes have had on the use of mobile applications in tourism, trying to understand their impact on the tourism experience. A quantitative and qualitative analysis supported this investigation through a survey of 110 Portuguese tourists using applications and two interviews with administrators of mobile application development companies, and, finally, through the analysis of four case studies. The main conclusion is that smartphones and mobile travel applications can substantially alter the tourist experience. Tourists assume that smartphones have motivated changes in the activities and emotions experienced, especially in social applications that allow them to maintain contact with their friends and families and increase security levels.

AR을 활용한 스마트관광의 경제적 가치 평가: 2단계 가상가치추정법(CVM) 활용

Purpose - This study aims to measure the net economic value of smart tourism AR service, which has been widely applied recently. This study suggested the smartphone app service using Augmented Reality (Changdeok ARirang) as an example service. Design, data, and methodology - Dichotomous CVM(Contingent Valuation Method) was used to evaluate. Willingness-to-pay(WTP) data were collected by the online survey. The survey was designed as a two-stage survey to prevent hypothetical bias and overestimation. 178 valid samples out of 183 samples were used for the analysis. Result - The results showed that WTP collected within the hypothetical situation (stage 1) was more expensive and overestimated than WTP collected within the actual situation (stage 2). WTP for the use of smart tourism AR service was estimated as 3,802 KRW. Regarding the yearly visitors of Changdeokgung(1.8 million), the overall economic value for the service is estimated as 6,843.6 million KRW. Conclusions - Through the findings, a theoretical implication for future studies and practical implications for effective marketing and developing smart tourism applications and suggestio ns for future study were discussed.

Identifying the Relatedness between Tourism Attractions from Online Reviews with Heterogeneous Information Network Embedding

The relatedness between tourism attractions can be used in a variety of tourism applications, such as destination collaboration, commercial marketing, travel recommendations, and so on. Existing studies have identified the relatedness between attractions through measuring their co-occurrence—these attractions are mentioned in a text at the same time—extracted from online tourism reviews. However, the implicit semantic information in these reviews, which definitely contributes to modelling the relatedness from a more comprehensive perspective, is ignored due to the difficulty of quantifying the importance of different dimensions of information and fusing them. In this study, we considered both the co-occurrence and images of attractions and introduce a heterogeneous information network (HIN) to reorganize the online reviews representing this information, and then used HIN embedding to comprehensively identify the relatedness between attractions. First, an online review-oriented HIN was designed to form the different types of elements in the reviews. Second, a topic model was employed to extract the nodes of the HIN from the review texts. Third, an HIN embedding model was used to capture the semantics in the HIN, which comprehensively represents the attractions with low-dimensional vectors. Finally, the relatedness between attractions was identified by calculating the similarity of their vectors. The method was validated with mass tourism reviews from the popular online platform MaFengWo. It is argued that the proposed HIN effectively expresses the semantics of attraction co-occurrences and attraction images in reviews, and the HIN embedding captures the differences in these semantics, which facilitates the identification of the relatedness between attractions.

The Impact of Electronic Tourism Marketing Systems on The Characteristics and Behavior of The Digital Tourism Consumer in Light of Smart Mobile Phone Technology (As an Intermediate Variable)

This study was conducted with the aim of researching the impact of electronic tourism marketing systems on the characteristics and behavior of the digital tourist consumer in the presence of smart mobile phone technology (as an intermediate variable). Is there an impact of the use of smart mobile phone technology and its applications on the digital tourist consumer when completing the purchase of the tourism product. The electronic questionnaire was used as a means of data collection, which was launched through the Internet. The results of the study concluded that there is a significant relationship between electronic tourism marketing systems and the characteristics and behaviors of the digital tourist consumer, as well as the existence of a significant impact relationship between smart mobile phone technology and the characteristics and behaviors of the digital tourist consumer, in addition to the existence of a significant influence relationship between smart mobile phone technology and electronic tourism marketing systems . The results confirmed the existence of a significant effect of smart mobile phone technology (as an intermediate variable) on the influence relationship between each of the electronic tourism marketing systems and the characteristics and behaviors of the digital tourist consumer. By adopting smart phone technology and its tourism applications and integrating them into tourism marketing operations in Egypt.

A New Approach for Fairness Increment of Consensus-Driven Group Recommender Systems Based on Choquet Integral

It has been witnessed in recent years for the rising of Group recommender systems (GRSs) in most e-commerce and tourism applications like Booking.com, Traveloka.com, Amazon, etc. One of the most concerned problems in GRSs is to guarantee the fairness between users in a group so-called the consensus-driven group recommender system. This paper proposes a new flexible alternative that embeds a fuzzy measure to aggregation operators of consensus process to improve fairness of group recommendation and deals with group member interaction. Choquet integral is used to build a fuzzy measure based on group member interactions and to seek a better fairness recommendation. The empirical results on the benchmark datasets show the incremental advances of the proposal for dealing with group member interactions and the issue of fairness in Consensus-driven GRS.

Minority Tourist Information Service and Sustainable Development of Tourism under the Background of Smart City

The continuous and in-depth development of smart technology has brought new development opportunities and challenges to the development of the tourism industry. This research mainly discusses the design of ethnic minority tourism information services and sustainable tourism development in the context of smart cities. The smart tourism public service application system must meet the three major requirements of different service objects. One is a smart service system aimed at satisfying tourists’ travel information services. The second is to meet the needs of tourism companies for online marketing and e-commerce on the platform. The third is to provide a platform for the government to master travel information and supervise the travel market to realize e-government management. Therefore, the smart tourism application system includes three aspects: service, market, and management. The smart tourism service module is a module that the platform provides tourists with “eating, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment” tourism information inquiry and consulting services and also uses modern information technology to provide navigation, tour guide, and shopping guide services in tourism. The smart tourism marketing module is the corporate product display, image promotion, and platform sales services provided by the platform for tourism companies. The smart tourism management module provides tourism management departments with services for managing various types of tourism information on the platform, platform security operations, and emergency response systems. As an ethnic minority region, the total tourism revenue of M city in 2020 will reach 75.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.33%. This research will highlight the unique charm of ethnic minorities and help drive the economic development of one party.

N + O2(v) collisions: reactive, inelastic and dissociation rates for state-to-state vibrational kinetic models

The reactive, inelastic and dissociation vibrationally-detailed rate coefficients of the N + O2 collision processes, previously calculated by means of a QCT method, have been interpolated as a function of the initial and final vibrational levels and of the temperature, in the range 1000–20000 K. These rates have been implemented in a N2/N/O2/O/NO mixture state-to-state kinetic model. The model has been tested in a couple of applications. The first consists in its time evolution, for 10−3 s, from an equilibrium composition at 4000/3000 K towards a new composition obtained by suddenly decreasing the temperature to 1000 K. This is a preliminary study that could open the way to a new approach in the investigation of some biomedical applications governed by plasma sources at atmospheric pressure. The second test regards the boundary layer formed around the nose of a hypersonic vehicle in the framework of the fast transportation and space tourism applications.

Aplikasi Virtual Tour Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) Negeri 3 Kota Pagar Alam Berbasis Android

Technological developments are increasingly rapid, giving rise to many new innovations from technology such as virtual tours. Virtual tour is one of the information media that displays 360? panoramic images in visual form. However, the use of virtual tour applications as a promotional medium and introduction to the school environment is still very little. In this study, the author makes a virtual tour application to help parties from SMP Negeri 3 Kota Pagar Alam in promoting and introducing the virtual school environment. The application development method used in this study is the Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC) which consists of six stages of multimedia development, namely Concept, Design, Material Collecting, Assembly, Tasting, and Destribution. The tools used in this research are Unity 3D, Google Street View Application. The tools used in the development are Use Case Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams. With the formation of this virtual tour application, it can make it easier for all students, teachers and the wider community to see the environment of SMP Negeri 3 Pagar Alam City virtually.

Designing a Mobile Application for Tourism in the Architectural Heritage of Tehran

Tehran has many valuable historical buildings as historical and populous capital. However, the increasing growth of the city and the uncontrolled prevalence of construction have endangered the city's architectural heritage in recent years. Introducing architecturally valuable buildings to people, and planning to visit them can reduce the risk of demolition. Recently, mobile applications and social networks have provided new facilities to boost tourism in Tehran following the spread of the Internet and the use of smartphones. The aim of this research is to provide a solution for tourism prosperity in Tehran's architectural heritage. This solution is defined in the form of a smartphone- based application. Users in this app can search the list of Tehran's architectural heritage and start tours to them. The application tries to complete its database of historical buildings and tours in interaction with users and under the supervision of experts. This research includes ideation, preliminary studies, design of the initial model, and proposal of the mechanism and user interface of the above application.

Prototyping, Testing, and Redesign of a Three-Wheel Trekking Wheelchair for Accessible Tourism Applications

This work is part of the project called “Gölem project”, started in 2017, about special devices developed to enable the so-called Accessible Tourism. This project aims to design and develop a trekking wheelchair for people with impaired mobility. After an initial phase of design and prototyping, the testing phase has now begun. The objective is to validate several aspects of the design, concerning basic kinematics and dynamics, passenger comfort and physical effort of the carriers. This paper describes the development of qualitative tests for drivability and balance validation of this first prototype. At this stage, a list of features to be investigated was made, suitable trekking paths were chosen, and qualitative experimental field tests were performed. Then, the design of the prototype was modified according to these first experimental results, to improve the wheelchair characteristics. The prototype is now undergoing the modification phase, then further testing will be performed with the use of specific instrumental devices to evaluate the wheelchair itself and to perform the kinematic, dynamical, and comfort characterization.

What Are the Drivers of Citations?: Application in Tourism and Hospitality Journals

In line with the qualitative and quantitative growth of academic papers, it is critical to understand the factors driving citations in scholarly articles. This study discovered the up-to-date academic structure in the tourism and hospitality literature and tested the comprehensive sets of factors driving citation counts using articles published in first-tier hospitality and tourism journals found on the Web of Science. To further test the effects of research topic structure on citation counts, unsupervised topic modeling was conducted with 9910 tourism and hospitality papers published in 12 journals over 10 years. Articles specific to online media and the sharing economy have received numerous citations and that recently published papers with particular research topics (e.g., rural tourism and eco-tourism) were frequently cited. This study makes a major contribution to hospitality and tourism literature by testing the effects of topic structure and topic originality discovered by text mining on citation counts.

Scents research and its applications in tourism

Scents research and its applications in tourism

Designing A Virtual Jakarta Tourism Application On Android Os And Virtual Reality Tools

The background of this research is to make a prototype of a Jakarta virtual tourism application system using Android OS and using virtual reality tools. The method used by this panel is to use a literature review and create an application prototype that will be applied to the making of a virtual Jakarta tourism program. The results of this study are the application of virtual reality tools on the Jakarta virtual tourism application which aims to help the tourism sector affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the manufacture of application prototypes that use the Android OS. The limitation of this research lies in making an application prototype using the Android OS which is not perfect and has not produced a real application. This research is very useful for the development of the tourism sector during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the future, so that tourists can choose to travel online or offline.

Underwater Cultural Heritage as an Engine for Social, Economic and Cultural Development. State of Research at the University of Cadiz (Andalusia, Spain)

Public access to underwater and maritime cultural heritage has proven to have a very positive effect on the local economy. This type of heritage is very attractive for the cultural tourism sector in general and for active and diving tourism. The Nautical and Underwater Archeology Line of the University of Cadiz, within the framework of the TIDE Project (Interreg Atlantic Area) and Herakles Project (FEDER-UCA18-107327) have been working on the enhancement of maritime and underwater heritage through the application of new technologies. In this paper, we will present the advances in the project in the Strait of Gibraltar, based on the first phase of scientific analysis and on the definition of a common working methodology that has resulted in a toolkit for the development of tourism activities linked to the MCH and UCH. Pilot activities under development are focused on accessible underwater heritage routes, VR applications to create Dry Dive experiences and the streaming of underwater archaeological works, thanks to a bottom-surface acoustic communication buoy. Results show that these types of outreach solutions and, by extension, of tourism application, must be preceded by a rigorous archaeological research process, a study of the target audience and the evaluation of the carrying capacity of the sites, to avoid falling into the mercantilisation or deterioration of the UCH. On the other hand, virtual or indirect access solutions are very useful, but always through the correct interpretation of the heritage.

ANALYSIS OF SMART TOURISM MODEL IN SOUTH TANGERANG CITY

The tourism industry is one of the largest foreign exchange earners in Indonesia and is able to provide new jobs. Therefore, tourism is one of the most important sectors in Indonesia, including in the South Tangerang City. South Tangerang City has various tourism potentials ranging from natural tourism, educational tourism, historical tourism, to shopping tourism. One strategy that can be implemented to maximize tourism potential in the South Tangerang City and increase tourist visits is to utilize the application of information technology innovation, also known as the Smart Tourism concept. Smart Tourism can significantly change tourist behavior, number of visits, as well as the function and structure of the tourism industry. This research will discuss how the application of smart tourism in South Tangerang City based on three components, namely smart experience, smart business ecosystem, and smart destination, the impacts of smart tourism implementation, factors that influence the implementation of smart tourism, and strategic analysis of smart tourism model using the SWOT method to determine the relationship between external opportunities and internal strengths and between internal weaknesses and external threats. From this strategic analysis, a strategy will be produced that will be applied in the smart tourism model in South Tangerang City.

Regenerate Post COVID-19 Tourism with Smart Tourism Application (Moh Poie Rembau - Let’s Go to Rembau) as the Next Cultural Tourism & Travel Destination in Malaysia

Regenerate Post COVID-19 Tourism with Smart Tourism Application (Moh Poie Rembau - Let’s Go to Rembau) as the Next Cultural Tourism & Travel Destination in Malaysia

모바일 여행 앱의 인터페이스 특성이 사용자의 이용 만족도에 미치는 영향 연구 - 사용자의 라이프스타일의 조절 효과를 중심으로

최근 IT 기술로 다변화하는 사회 구조 속에 가치 소비와 경험이 중시되면서 수많은 스마트폰의 여행 관광 앱이 보급되고 있다. 이러한 배경을 바탕으로 본 연구는 모바일 여행 앱의 인터페이스 특성이 사용자의 이용 만족도에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 검증하고, 이를 토대로 사용자의 라이프스타일에 따른 조절적 효과를 규명하고자 하였다. 연구의 방법으로는 모바일 앱 인터페이스의 특성에 관한 문헌을 고찰하여 주목성, 사용 용이성, 효율성, 상호 작용성의 4가지 특성을 도출하였다. 사용자의 라이프스타일에 관한 연구에 기초하여 경제 가치 추구형, 사회관계형, 가족 중심형, 삶의 질 추구형의 총 4개 조절 요인을 도출하였다. 그다음은 2020년 중국 모바일 여행 앱 중에서 사용자 활동 빈도 순위별 3위 안에 드는 ‘씨트립, 취날, 페이주어’ 앱을 중심으로 사례를 분석하였다. 다양한 선행 연구 문헌들을 토대로 한 연구의 모형 및 가설을 설정하였고, 가설의 검증을 위하여 중국인 중 여행 앱을 체험한 경험자 231명을 대상으로 온라인 설문 조사를 진행하였다. 분석 방법은 앱 인터페이스의 주목성, 사용 용이성, 효율성과 상호 작용성의 4가지 독립 변수와 경제 가치 추구형, 사회관계형, 가족 중심형, 삶의 질 추구형의 4가지 조절 변수, 그리고 1개의 종속 변수인 사용자 이용 만족도와의 인과관계를 파악하고자 SPSS 통계 시스템을 활용하여 분석하였다. 분석 결과에 따르면 모바일 앱 인터페이스의 주목성과 사용 용이성은 사용자의 이용 만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 파악되었다. 그리고 경제 가치 추구형, 사회관계형, 삶의 질 추구형과 특성 간의 가설은 통계상 유의미한 결과가 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 단, 가족 중심형 * 효율성만 부(-)의 영향력을 미치는 것으로 나왔다. 따라서 본 연구를 통해 모바일 앱의 인터페이스 디자인 특성을 활용하여 사용자의 이목을 집중시키고, 사용 빈도를 높이며, 사용자의 라이프스타일을 고려하면서 사용자의 이용 만족도도 향상할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.