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Smart Tourist Guide

Pooja Sharma1, Arunjay Kumar 2, Anurag Chaudhary3, Deepak Kumar Singh 4
1
Assistant Professor,2,3,4Students
Deapartment of Computer Science (Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning)
GNIOT Group of Institutions, Knowledge park II, Greater Noida – 201310, Uttar pradesh, India

Abstract:- Android Smart city traveler by the name simple, so as to give the user the benefit of a inconvenience
indicated smartly makes it way in analysing user’s free login. We understand the importance of the user’s
likes and dislikes and the time period the user is willing time, energy and patience.
to explore a place and gives them with amazing results
in the form where utilization of the time is maximum. The proposed system is bent on helping tourists who
This system is basically used to help the traveller new to have a desire to visit and explore a city within a stipulated
city or anyone who wants to explore the city in the amount of time. Every tourist has a list of likes and
limited time period, the system makes use of the dislikes. Some tourists might be interested in visiting
preferences of the user to get all the locations and heritage sites to understand the cultural diversity, whereas
places with all the locations and places with all their some of them would prefer knowing more about the
information to sort and give a plan to the user. Thus we natural biodiversity, so parks, zoos and gardens. With a lot
have used certain algorithms and google maps API to of options in hand, it becomes time consuming for the
create this application. tourist to analyse the options against his/her likes and
dislikes. That’s where our application helps simplify
I. INTRODUCTION decision making.

Travelling is one of the most common way to spend II. PROBLEM STATEMENT
the holiday. Information about the travel destination,
infrastructure, facility, event and promotion should be As we know that the world is moving forward in the
increased and easy to retrived in order to help the traveler field of technology and until it is slow in the tourism
in preparing the enjoyable trip. It is believed that daily industry. It is observed that people spend more time in
lives of today’s people are influenced by the interest and travel planning and it becomes very difficult to organize a
social media. Today mobile applications play a very simple and enjoying trip. Even it is difficult in decision
crucial role in our real life. Public utilization of mobile making of travelling spots, hotels, parks, exploring places.
applications for multipurpose has now become a major part If a person is travelling first time, it is difficult to know the
of our life. Travel and tourism industry is no such exact location about the places. At that time person have to
exception since a huge part of its success relies on these totally dependent on the suggestion and directions given by
applications. Quite simply, if the mobile technology impact the local people of that area. In developing country there
on general society over the last decade has been ambient, will be need of smart tourism applications that help the
its impression on the tourism sector has been enormous is traveller to know the exact locations, directions and how
no longer a leap into the unknown. The smartphone keeps much time will take during travelling.
its nature tourism experience and their technologies is
suited their perfect travel partner. No traveller wants to feel Sometime people came to any city and wants to
like migrant when travelling. Mobile and digital explore that city. But they have the limited time and in that
technology have ensured that travelling tourists at their time they wants to travel the famous places in that city. At
fingertips has empowered tourists with a sense of freedom, that time they need an application that help them to find
flexibility and choice than ever before. Somehow it is the famous places, hotels, restaurants, shopping complex,
important for a mobile to have a proper and well defined entertainment zone, etc nearby by their locations and also
platform. Developers can get help from the Android how much time will it be taken to explore it.
developer community for the forthcoming versions which III. SCOPE OF PROJECT
they can incorporate into their app development projects.
Android is an operating system for smartphones which is The scope of our project is mainly for the travellers
developed by Google. Android is based on linux operating who have limited time and they want to explore the city.
system and it is used in touch screen smartphones.A good This application helps the traveller to save their times. In
interface design intends to guide users through their short times the travellers visit the city and know about the
journey on an application. One of the most stressing parts city in detail.
about joining an application is to provide detailed
information on a Log-in form, just to have complete
access. On one hand where log-in forms are essential for
application owners, they can also be difficult and often
take people off of an application. This is because they
lookout for other easier log-in options on similar kind of
applications where it is not always a inconvenience to log
in to an application to use it. . Our objective was to keep it

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IV. AIM AND OBJECTIVE VI. METHODOLOGY

 Aim: To develop an android application that analyses A. Proposed system

the user’s likes, dislikes and time period that user is The Places are sorted and selected based on the top
willing to put in to explore a place and give an optimized rankings by the foursquare. During the Make trip/create
result. trip the user is asked some questions helping them to filter
 Objective: This application can be used by traveller who out in searching the places, the places are displayed on the
is new to the city or anyone who wants to explore a city maps giving a clear idea of the location and giving the
in a bounded time period, so the person has to do paths from one place to another from the start location to
minimum travelling can make use of time wisely. the end location. The Time shouldn’t exceed 22 hours and
the travel plan you choose is saved only for a single day
V. ANALYSIS and exceeding will be dissolved. If the time specified by
the user exceeds 8 hours i.e. between 9 am to 7 pm the
A. Existing system system also asks you whether you want to visit a adventure
In the existing system, it is necessary for user to input or water park and will show you options based on the
the name of the destination exactly. If sightseeing place is rankings and reviews about it. Since the Traveller may be
decided, users do not have any problem (Google Maps). new to the city not knowing any place, in the map view if
But, if the user wants to explore new places which he is not the user clicks on the marker he can see the ratings and
aware of then this system is not desirable. Current system reviews which are recorded from the Foursquare itself.
shows only the top locations around the user. But, the user
has to choose the places he wants to visit and search routes For the proposed system, the entire application is
for each places separately. Furthermore, Google map developed on android. Android is widely used in touch
displays it only to the route of the destination. On the other screen based smartphones. Android has very large
hand, in this system, the point that can propose a communities that extend its features and create apps that
sightseeing route and sightseeing plan in the planned time cover almost all aspects. The app will be divided into 3
to return is big superiority. In the existing tourist guide sections. The first section is for the user login and
system, user is necessary to input an individual visit. registration. The second section will provide the list of
Therefore, it is necessary for the traveller to prepare for questionnaire that is required for the system. The third
sightseeing spot beforehand. Traveller can only visit the section shows the map of the city which will show the
places which he is aware of. If it is a famous sightseeing shortest route. This section will also provide other features
spot, traveller can easily check it on a book or Internet. like information about the tourist places around the city,
However, if it is not a famous sightseeing spot, but there availability of public transport etc. Google Maps API
are a lot of attractive places the traveller will not be aware allows maps to be added based on Google Maps data to an
of it. application. Google Maps API itself, handles access to
Google Maps servers, data downloading, map display, and
response to map gestures. API calls can be used to alter the
user's view of a particular map area. These objects provide
additional information about map locations and improve
user interaction with the map.

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Fig 1: Block Diagram Of Page Interface

The entire registration process is on the first page of  Software Requirement Specifications
the UI. The UI also provides the list of questionnaire which  Operating system : windows 7 and above
is required by the system. The output generated by the  Coding language : Android
system i.e. the route generated is displayed on the map.  Front-end : Android
The processing of data and implementation of algorithms is  Data base : SQLITE
carried out by API. The front end API is responsible for  Software : Android Studio
making an interactive UI and acts as a platform to execute
the algorithms. The back end API is responsible for VIII. MODULES
managing the database.
 Registration: The application allowsthe user to register
VII. REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS
in the application with basic details like name, mobile
A. Technologies Used number, email, and password. This application uses
ANDROID STUDIO as a tool used to build both the SQLITE Database where the user details will be stored
applications, user end and admin end. XML language is in the mobile database, which is primary source.
used to build screen of android app (User Interface).
Listener for accessing User details. API’S (application  Login: Once the user is registered user can get an access
programming interface) is developed and integrated to to login to the application. The entered mobile number
android studio in order to communicate with server. All the and password will be checked in the database, if the user
database will be maintained in SQLITE db. is present then application allow him to do next process
else it asks for check credentials or register again.
B. Hardware Requirements
 Mobile application  Device geo location capture: Nowadays many
 Processor - 1GHZ and above applications capture the location of the user to locate or
 Battery - 1200mah and above track anyone. On installing theappthe user is asked to
 RAM - 512 MB provide the location permission, then with help of
 Memory - 2 GB and above location GPS which is inbuilt app, gives the current
latitude and longitude of the device/user.

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 Make your schedule: The user can make the schedule in a duration, etc. The days of paper maps, guidebooks,
of the travel plan, initially the application captures the booklets have been replaced by interactive and amazing
user locations and ask some question to select date and mobile applications for travel and tourism industry that
time. Once the date and time is captured again user has come along with various functionalities. The accelerating
to select to which place he need to travel like shopping, interaction between technology and tourism has changed
temple, hill station. Once user select these then genuinly the efficiency and effectiveness of tourist
application call FOURSQUARE API to retrieve the data guidance systems. Mobile applications and the capabilities
based on the user interest and gives the nearest location it gives tourists at their fingertips has empowered tourists
and user can select and save. with a sense of freedom, flexibility and choice than ever
before. An application like android Smart City Traveller
 My schedule: Here all the list of data will be populating saves the user’s precious time and leads to quicker decision
based on the user selection with respect to theirlocation making. A simple user- friendly, jargon free interface
and he can choose any location and start seeing in google ensures that users of all types can easily interact with the
map. application.

 Notification: once the user selects places the data will ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
be stored in user database and alarm with notification Behind any major work undertaken by group there
will be set. Once the time matches with device time and lies the contribution of the people who helped them to
trip time user will get the notification saying that you can cross all the hurdles to achieve his goal. It gives us the
start moving to next place. immense pleasure to express our sense of sincere gratitude
IX. LIMITATIONS towards our respected guide MS. Pooja Sharma,( Professor
of Computer Engineering (AIML) department) for her
After evaluating our project, our project work only in persistent, outstanding, invaluable co-operation and
one city. Our project work in Delhi and neighboring city of guidance. She is a constant source of encouragement and
Delhi like Noida, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, etc. momentum that any intricacy becomes simple. We gained
a lot of invaluable guidance and prompt suggestions from
X. FUTURE SCOPE her during entire project work. I will be indebted of her
forever and we take pride to work under her. Ms.We feel
Based on the current limitations of our project, there very privileged to have had their precious advices,
can be some recommendations to improve the features of guidance and leadership. Last but not the least, our humble
our app in order to make more user friendly, efficient and thanks to the Almighty God.
as well as effective.
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