CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1.
BACKGROUND
STUDY
In the new era of information technology, information overload has
become a serious problem to those seeking for information online. Recently,
intelligent search have been employed in the web that suggest that these
problems can be partially overcome by providing search engines with more
intelligence and with the user’s underlying knowledge. (Anastasia,
2012). Such include google.com and another class of intelligent system that has
proven relevant in addressing the issue of information overload is the
recommender system (Daramola, 2009).
In the aspect of tourism, internet and web technologies has made
information on tourist accommodations, transportation, shopping, food,
festivals, and attractions to be more readily available thus also helping
vacation planning and package tours to be easier (Heum,2012).
However,
in recent times another class of intelligent software applications that has
gained relevance in addressing the problem of information overload when
searching for relevant information on the Internet is recommender systems (Daramola,
2004). Information technology is been
used to enhance tourism service such as travel bookings, itinerary planning,
destination marketing and information sharing. These services use dynamic web
application which doesn’t provide the necessary tool a tourist needs.
The advancement of Internet and mobile technologies
has made information on tourist accommodations, transportation, shopping, food,
festivals, and attractions to be more readily available. (Heum, 2012).This has also helped vacation planning and package
tours to be easier.
The
current tourism applications rely on the static information sources such as web
sites to add tourism products and services. These applications lack Intelligence;
for example, an itinerary planner in the current scenario will allow the
tourist to make bookings, but it cannot suggest an itinerary based on the
travellers preference. A sematic web application using a generic profilingand a
semi-structured query tools can overcome the technical limitationsin the
previous systems and help build an intelligent tourism tool or applications.
According
to (Jiang, 2013) ,
“the definition of Intelligent Tourism system as systems that comprises of
technologies such as;Internet of things, Cloud Computing, Internet, intelligent
mining that are applied to tourism industry, which integrates and activates the
tourism physical and informational resources to improve tourism service,
improve the tourism experience, innovate tourism management and enhance tourism
enterprises competitiveness.”
The goal of this research work is to assist the
tourist before and during their travel. The system (Intelligent Tourism
Management Information System)can make a decision for the trip according to the
budget and related information (i.e. culture, language, map etc.) with the
place the user is going to visit.
1.2.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Today’s
tourists expect to get personalized access to tourism information anytime, from
anywhere with any media but they end up getting outdated information. People
get too much irrelevant information alongside with relevant ones as a response
to queries posed on the Internet.(Anastasia,
2012).
Being a tour guide is not an easy task and tourist
is becoming more demanding and has complex and multilayered desires and needs
The new origin and destination areas are opening up;
the task of the Tour Guide in giving tours of publicly accessible travel
destinations like national parks or natural attractions is assuming more
importance every day. However, these brought up the importance of creating an
intelligent
Tourism system, which focuses on the quality of the
visitor's experience when using the system and to overcome many of the
limitations of the traditional information and navigation tools available to
tourist the system in turn acts as a tour guide and also as able to recommend
places in other to meet tourist needs.
1.3.
AIM
AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of the project is to design and implement intelligent
platform that will aid tourists in Nigeria in having access to information on
tourist locations.
Using Nigeria as a case study, the objectives of
this study are;
i.
To design a web based application that
enables users search for a tourist site, either by name or by state.
ii.
To design a web-platform that enables
tourist have full access to information and services by providing links to
tourist sites
iii.
To develop a robust database to store
data for easy storage, retrieval, and accessibility to tourism industries.
1.4.
SCOPE
OF STUDY
The research is focused on increasing
efficiency of tourism product and servicessby developing a web based
application. While it is imperative to know that the system accessibility will
not be limited to Nigeria, especially in some instances where they are needs
for those outside the country to visit some other tourism industries in Nigeria.
The system supports accessibility, can make a decision for the trip according
to the budget and related information. It also provides a tool to search, a map
for direction.
1.5.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF STUDY
The study will assist tourist in making the right choice
in determining which place to visit for tourism and subsequently, what
information best gives satisfaction. It will
1. Provide
system that will be easily accessible on mobile devices or computing devices
2. Enable
potential tourists to make pre-plan before embark on tourism.
3. Assist
tourist with time estimation that is required to get to other destination
4. Provide
a map as a tour guide that will help tourist find a way to a particular
destination
5. Provide
a tourism management platform that will enhance tourism and ensuring
up-to-dating as well as precision and truthfulness of information provided.
1.6.
THE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The approach employed in designing this system is
the Rational Unified Process (RUP). The
proposed methodology is based on the fact that the system represents an
organized way of gathering business requirements and building the goal of the
project from the given system. This is employed, because it’s an object
oriented and web enabled program development methodology and also a frame work
for developing software systems.
It
also clearly outlines the different roles of the individuals involved in the
project, such as the project manager, business analyst and developers.
The
software is a web-based application which allows easy accessibility by all
i.
PHP server-side language is used to
implement the system. PHP is an open source
server-side scripting language that is freely available for download. PHP can
be embedded with HTML in a web page and is used to add dynamism to a web page.
ii.
HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language); This
language or design tool is used to design the interface of the application,
just a default interface excluding the functions present in the interface, but
it does the linkage of one webpage to another webpage. The HTML codes can be
either created on the Notepad and then launched on the internet explorer or
created directly using the Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is used to build up the
web pages displayed on the internet explorer, which serve as the interface
between a user and application itself.
iii.
MySQL database Server is used to manage
all the data in the application. MySQL database has become the world's most
popular open source relational database because of its consistent fast
performance, high reliability and ease of use. Not only is MySQL the world's
most popular open source database, it has also become the database of choice
for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.) MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including
Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, Netware, giving you the kind of flexibility
that puts you in control. It uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most
popular language for the most popular language for adding, accessing, and
processing data in a database.
1.7.
PROJECT FEASIBILITY AND PLAN
Project
feasibility study is the process of determining the viability of software and
as well providing a framework and direction for its development and delivery
while project planning is the process of drawing layouts of the software to be
developed.
This
section is going to talk extensively on the economic and schedule feasibility
in the development of Intelligent Tourism Management System
1.7.1. ECONOMIC
FEASIBILITY
The
system (Intelligent Tourism Management System) will play a major role in
tourist locations not only in the physical improvement but also the information
services online. The system will
be developed and operated in the existing hardware and software infrastructure.
So there is no need of additional hardware and software for the system.
Despite
the content, the hardware and software requirements are quite cheap and can be
easily gotten and implemented on any platform, easy and cost less to upgrade
and maintain.
1.7.2. SCHEDULE
FEASIBILITY
The project
will be completed in nine months (9 months). The documentation of each chapter
is going to take a range of thirty (30) days. After the first three chapters,
comes the summary (summary 1-3), the first summary is going to give a clearreview
of the three (3) chapters and the last summary will give a clear review of
chapter four (4) and five (5)
Software implementation follows next, from the
start and completion of the software will be two (2) months, this includes the
plan for the system, analysis, design, and implementation of the system.
Documentation
of chapter four (4), five (5) and summary takes two (2) months.
1.8.
EXPECTED
CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE
The
ITMIS should have a very good potential to be expanded by the government and
implemented on the web and made available to everyone to use.
By
using this system, the following characteristics are included;
i.
Choice of site layout and color palette
ii.
Incorporate multimedia assets, videos
and audio.
iii.
Establish links to other websites
iv.
Should have a content scheduler that
eliminates outdated information
v.
Detailed visitors tracking
vi.
Additional
search options which include budget, weather forecast, currency exchange,
Google map route (from point A to point B)
1.9.
ORGANIZATION
OF SUBSEQUENT CHAPTERS
This
project consists of five chapters. In chapter one, a general introduction to
the system of study, what lead to the development of the system, the
methodology employed, the project feasibility and the need for its development
are outlined.
Chapter
two undertakes a critical review of tourism system. The chapter presents a
review of related works and defines the context of the research by identifying
the gaps that exist in literatures.
Chapter
three introduces the system design methodology: analysis and design of the
system using Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the database design.
Chapter
four describes the system implementation and documentation, analysis of modules
and system requirements.
Finally,
in chapter five we give the summary, conclusion, recommendations, and limitation
of the study.
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