Smart Tourism Project

Abstract

People love travelling to get refreshed from monotonous regular life. Existing travel systems provide predefined tour packages but lack smooth flexibility for people to plan their trip with friends & family based on their own interests. So we have proposed a travel system that not only suggests tour packages but also provides option where user can easily plan a trip or let the system intelligently plan a trip for him/her. User has to define starting location and visiting area at first. Then system will offer him two options. First option is to plan a tour manually and here user has to choose the nearby tourist spots in the visiting area. Then user can give input for spending hour and day wise planning. Second option is to plan a tour automatically. In this case user does not choose spending hours & does not plan day wise tours. Our system will generate suitable tour package for him. Finally user can save the tour package and invite his friends to join him. For this feature, we have also implemented a friend service where any user can connect with others as a friend. User can make his tour accessible by public, and he can also send request to join any public tour. User can search for place & hotel with the search option. He can view place details with 7 days weather forecast. Hotel details provide available room types and user can book any room after providing some required information. User can view blog articles written by travel agents on travel related information, necessary description, new place/hotel, seasonal tourist attractions etc. User can access forum and view questions & answers. He can also submit any question if he needs exact information from tourists (users). He can also answer to any existing question asked by other user. Existing travel systems do not focus on the tourist places of Bangladesh. So in our project we highlighted popular tourist places of Bangladesh where tourists will find their mental satisfaction while visiting those places.

Keywords: tourism, travel, tourist, traveller, blog, forum, search, place, hotel, tour package, tour planning, recommendation, friend system, chat.