Journey Companion, an Android Travel and Tourism Application
Arun Krishna K V1, Sabarish S2
1Arun Krishna K V, Computer Science and Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Anna University, Chennai, India.
2Sabarish S, Computer Science and Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Anna University, Chennai, India.
Manuscript received on 17 December 2020 | Revised Manuscript received on 30 December 2020 | Manuscript Accepted on 15 January 2021 | Manuscript published on 30 January 2021 | PP: 29-34 | Volume-1, Issue-1, January 2021 | Retrieval Number: A1005011121/2021©LSP
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Abstract: Due to high inflow of domestic as well as international tourists, the manpower required to guide the tourists on travel landmarks is not sufficient and sometimes lack in the information that needs to be given and highlighted to the tourist. The biggest issue of regular travellers flying around the world is they want software to aid them. But there are tons of different travel apps out there today, each with their own set of interesting features. But due to limited storage capacity on smartphones and jumping across multiple applications, it’s getting repetitive and mundane for the traveller. We get to know the needs of tourists by surveying the regular traveller, an app that has the features of all the other travel apps on the market today. The goal of the project is to build an android app that assists the traveller throughout his journey. The main objective of our project is to develop a state of the art mobile travel guide application with innumerable functionalities which will include integrated features of all other best travel apps in the market in a single all-in-one app. We propose the development of a mobile application which renders information about various cities or destinations and their landmarks, monuments, restaurants, picnic spots and current weather information of a chosen city. Apart from these it will also have some add-on features like currency convertor, magnetic compass, world clock, holiday details and shopping facilities.
Keywords: Android app, Currency Convertor, Top Destinations, Journey companion, Tourism, Travel guide, Weather forecast