International Journal of Applied Computer Technology and Information Systems: Volume 10, No.2, October 2020 - March 2021

Prototype of Community Tourist Application (Non-Principal Towns),

*Youdthachai Lertworaprachaya1, Wattana Tanongphaeng2, Salita Saribut3, Pim-on Kaewdang4

1Information System Department Faculty of Business Administration Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi PathumThani, e-mail : [email protected] 2Hotel Management Department Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi PathumThani, Thailand e-mail : [email protected] 3Marketing Department Faculty of Business Administration Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi PathumThani, Thailand e-mail : [email protected] 4Tourism and Hospitality Department Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi PathumThani, Thailand e-mail : [email protected]

I. PRELIMINARY Abstract— This research purposes a new prototype of The government's policy on Thailand 4.0 (Thailand community tourist application for non-principal towns. 4.0) affects the policy of the tourism industry of Thailand Most existing tourist applications have not insight and the tourism market 4.0 that focuses on technology information about the attractions of Nakhon Nayok innovation and creativity in tourism management. The Province. However, specific tourist information of innovation in information technology applied to tourism in Nakhon Nayok Province is not available in general tourist non-principal towns such as Nakhon Nayok Province. It is application. In this paper, we represent a prototype as necessary and is extremely appropriate. This is in line with community tourist application in Nakhon Nayok the Thailand 4.0 model in accordance with the Province. We also study and investigate tourist government's policy of using information technology in information by meeting with local people in several balancing efficiency and transparency of the work system. communities in Nakhon Nayok province. Thus, the The information technology to the business sector has an perfect community tourist information is available to increasing trend, especially in tourism. Due to huge of search for tourist information and focus on tourists, tourism information, which it was not collected and stored especially working age tourist groups and new generation in a systematic manner. It leads to cause problems for people or gen Y tourist groups. This new prototype of those who want to use the tourism information, but there is no database to search for. For instance, in Nakhon Nayok community tourist application non principal towns Province, which has many tourist attractions. But there is Nakhon Nayok Province contains travel route, tourist insufficient information available for tourists to find information and tourist map, etc. That tourists can choose information about Nakhon Nayok attractions. The their own travel routes and search for tourist attractions information that tourists want to know include tourist and automatically connect to the Google map. information, accommodation information, restaurants information, etc. If the community has a good systematic Keywords-tourist information, community tourist collection of tourism information. It will facilitate tourists application, non-principal towns, Nakhon Nayok Province. and the general public to come to travel in Nakhon Nayok Province. Thus, you can easily and quickly to find tourist information from this application.

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Therefore, if there is a community tourist application program or software application is designed to run on (non-principal towns) that can be used in the area that is a a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile tourist attraction in Nakhon Nayok Province. It will make applications are split into three types: native application, people living in the said area have more income from hybrid application and web application. visiting foreign and foreign tourists. When those tourists A database is a systematic collection of data, generally have access to information on attractions, accommodation, stored and accessed electronically from a computer system guides, tour arrangements by local tour operators, [4]. The components of a database system includes data, restaurants, local merchandise, etc. hardware, software, procedure, and database access language. Hardware refers to computer, hard disks, and I/O channels for data, before any data is stored into the II. LITERATURE AND THEORIES REVIEW memory. Software refers to a set of programs and they are employed to control the database. For instance, DBMS or A. Literature database management system software serves as an The research results related to application creation are interface between the database and end-users. Thus, end- complaints application from Bua Loi Subdistrict users can update, delete, retrieve and manage data in Administrative Organization, Nong Khae District, databases. Data in a database are the actual or operational [1]. The aforementioned application has data and the metadata. Procedure is the rules and been used for testing with the Bualoy Subdistrict instructions. In order to guide the users that operate and Administrative Organization. It turned out that the results manage it. So, procedure is needed on how to use the were very satisfactory to the officials of the Bua Loi database. Database access language is deployed to access Subdistrict Administrative Organization. It found that the the data to and from the database [5]. results were very satisfactory to the staff of the Bualoy Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Subdistrict Administrative Organization. People can save Environment (IDE) for Android application development, traveling costs and have no waste time for traveling to the based on IntelliJ IDEA. Specifically, it is referred to as the Bua Loi Subdistrict Administrative Organization [1]. For a operating system of mobile devices, such as mobile smartphone application for group traveller. This phones, tablets, etc. There are two steps to writing Android application is developed to suit the needs of group travel, on Android Studio: Java SDK and Android Studio such as group of family and friends etc. The 5W1H (what, installed. when, where, why, who, and how questions) theory is deployed to analyze traveller groups [2]. The behavior in tourism activities are focused as the important features that III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY can draw attention from most users or group traveller to develop this application of group traveller. The example of A. Scope of research features, such as initiative of tourism, solicitation, first The study area is tourist attraction in Nakhon Nayok alternative assessment, finding information, evaluation of Province with potential for experiential tourism. The alternatives, decision making, planning on various matters province is divided into four districts as following: before the trip, travel, travel, sharing experiences, Mueang Nakhon Nayok district, , Ban Na recording experiences, and after the trip [2]. Tourist district, and . application should have notification of past travel of group In this research, the researchers team was interested in traveller. Thus, a notification is essential because the tourist is working-age tourists and generation y groups. notifications are the hallmark of a smartphone in making Both of these groups have difference in tourism. So, the users return to employ application more and more [2]. A community tourist application focuses on attraction area study of the factors used by Chinese tourists traveling to for the both groups. Thailand when they select a mobile application for online accommodation booking. The results explored that B. Process of community toueidm application prototype accommodations online booking of Chinese tourists has a development very high level [3]. Factors that affect Chinese tourists' Initial study the desire of the community and the needs alternative online accommodation booking applications of tourists for experiential tourism with the participation of are age, online hotel reservations cost. Online room layout, the community in Nakhon Nayok Province. Using and online booking resources [3]. qualitative tools and quantitative: semi structure in-depth interview with focus groups and questionnaires. B. Theories The population in this research is Elderly people aged An application is a software program that runs on a 55 years and over. They are residing in Bangkok and its computer. Each program has a specific application for the vicinity and also have the potential to travel. The tourists user. For example, Airbnb, Triplt, and Packt. An who are traveling in the Bangkok and metropolitan areas application is made of a program, or set of programs and it and stakeholder groups in tourism in Nakhon Nayok is designed to interact with the end user of the computer. It Province, which comprises of tourism entrepreneurial also helps the user perform certain tasks. A mobile communities government and private agencies. application, also referred to as a mobile app. A computer

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Figure 2 shown the main menu structure on the main page of the community tourist application (non-principal towns). Main menu consists of tourist routes, travel maps, reviews, tourist information, recommended websites, and administrator. C. The security and servers in using the application. x Security on mobile applications Areas covered by mobile application security include database, cache or configuration files, protect mobile Figure 1. Process of an application development applications and devices from vulnerabilities. For the TTA app, Review (รีวิว) menu in Figure 3 is needed to protect the Application of community tourism (non-principal comments of tourists. So, we employed Secure Socket towns) Nakhon Nayok province prepares to facilitate Layer (SSL) for protection. tourists and can find information about places or x Server for android mobile attractions that are interesting and there are many places in In order to serve application content to tourists that it Nakhon Nayok Province. It also provides information need some sort of server space. The TTA app run on only about accommodation, such as resorts, homestays, and android mobile. Thus, the server for TTA app is employed hotels, etc. Travelers can choose accommodation to handle requests for information or files from user or according to the budget of each traveler. If tourists want to tourists, such as photo files or picture files, tourist buy souvenirs or local products and they can find information, and comments. information from the application of community tourism (Non-principal towns), Nakhon Nayok Province as well. The process for developing community tourist application IV. COMMUNITY TOURIST APPLICATION (NON- has the steps to be taken as Figure 1. PRINCIPAL TOWNS)NAKHON NAYOK PROVINCE. Figure 1 depicted the process of application The prototype of community tourist application is development. Step 1, it is collect information for creating introduced and it is called "Tiny Trip Application" (TTA an application. The core information includes tourist app). TTA app refers to an application that provides travel information, accommodation information, restaurant, routes as a small trip, such as one day trip and two days merchandise and souvenirs information, attractions and trip. tourism activities etc. Step 2 is to survey of user requirements about the use of travel applications. Step 3 is to design the database and application pages. Step 4 is to create the application. Step 5 is to test each function of the application. Initial test is unit testing for all menus. Then is integration testing and system testing of application, respectively. Final step is to correct the application and ready to use. Then, it is applied to the existing system. The main page of community tourist application (non-principal towns) is designed as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 3. Main page of Tiny Trip Application

In Figure 3, the description of all main menus are the same as the menu structure in Figure 2. How does it work? Clicking on the Travel routes (เสนทางท้ ่องเทียว) button connects to the next page that comprises four menus, such as Travel routes (กาหนดเสํ นทางท้ ่องเทียว), Attractions (แหล่งท่องเทียว), Accommodation / Homestay (ทีพกั /โฮมสเตย)์ ,andShops / Figure 2. Main page of community tourism application Souvenirs shops (ร้านขายสินคา้ /ของทีระลึก) as shown in Figure 4 (a.). In Figure 3, if clicking on the Tourist information

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(ขอม้ ูลท่องเทียว) button. Then menus on the new page includes In Figure 5 (a.), after Travel routes plan menu (แผน Attractions and activities, Plastic waste processing เสนทางท้ ่องเทียว), Type of tourist menu (ประเภทนกทั ่องเทียว), and learning center(ศูนย์การเรียนรู้และการจัดการพลาสติก), and Local food Travel trips menu are completely selected then clicking on promotion activities for tourism (กิจกรรมส่งเสริมอาหารพืนบานเพ้ ือการ the (Menu) OK (ตกลง) button to confirm or the (Menu) ท่องเทียว) as shown in Figure 4 (b.). Cancel (ยกเลิก) button to reject. The application page of the travel route is shown as in Figure 6. Figure 5 (b.) shown information of travel routes which details of information are navigation information, and review information. The bottom of this page is a list of attractions, time to visit, location of attractions, and distances. Figure 5 (b.), clicking on the (Menu) Navigation box (นาทางํ ) connects to google maps as shown in Figure 6.

(a.) (b.) Figure 4. (a.) Travel route page (b.) Tourist information Page

In Figure 4 (a.), clicking on the Travel routes (กาหนดํ เสนทางท้ ่องเทียว) button links to the travel routes page in Figure 5 and on Travel routes plan menu (แผนเสนทางท้ ่องเทียว) comprises the alternative menus for tourists choose whether to use a predetermined itinerary plan by clicking Figure 6. Google maps the designed travel itinerary plan button or the tourists want to plan their own itinerary. So, they can clicking on In Figure 6, navigation box refers to it is intended for the Custom plan (กาหนดแผนเองํ ) button to customize the plan. tourists to view the map. The tourists able to know the The next menu is the Type of tourists menu (ประเภทนกทั ่องเทียว) location of attractions and distance. Where the selected that is separated into working age (กล่มวุ ัยทางานํ ) groups and tourist destination information will be linked to the map on Gen Y age (กล่มคนรุ ุ่นใหม่ หรือ Gen Y) groups. The last menu is google map. The tourists can select the review box to Travel trips menu that is split into (1) one day trip and (2) comment on the tourist attractions and tourist activities two days trip as shown in Figure 5. that they have attended.

(a.) (b.) Figure 7. Tourist attractions in Nakhon Nayok Province Figure 5. (a.) Travel routes page (b.) Detail of travel routes page Figure 7 depicted tourist attractions of Nakhon Nayok Province. Each tourist attraction is depend on the district that consists of four districts: Mueang Nakhon Nayok

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District, Pak Phli District, , and Ongkharak These are the important pages on the community District. tourist application.

V. CONCLUSION In this paper, we proposed a prototype TTA for community tourist application, non-principal towns, Nakhon Nayok Province. In the proposed prototype, community tourist information is employed to this application. In addition, tourist information is split into travel routes, attractions, accommodation/homestay, and shops/souvenirs shops. On Travel routes plan menu is separated into designed travel itinerary plan and custom plan. Moreover, the tourists able to know the location of attractions and distance by linking the selected tourist destination information to the map on google map.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express my sincere thanks to the National Research Figure 8. Shop and souvenirs shop page Council of Thailand (NRCT) that encourage research fund. I would like to thank Tourism Authority of Thailand, In addition, the community tourist application (non- Nakhin Nayok Province for their extraordinary support principal towns) Nakhon Nayok Province also created a information and suggestion in this research. page of the shops and souvenirs shop of each district In Nakhon Nayok Province as shown in Figure 8. Moreover, information of tourist attractions / attractions is split into REFERENCES another application page that tourists easily find [1] Y.. Lertworaprachaya and Y. Pongkanawat, “Complaint information as in Figure 9. Application of Bualoy Subdistrict Administrative Organization Nong Khae District, Saraburi Province”,The 16th National Conference and 2019-2 International Conference on Applied Computer Technology and information Systems and 2019-2 National Conference on Business Administration, 2019. [2] J. Ruethaithanarat, “THE FEATURE OF MOBILE APPLICATION FOR GROUP TRAVELLER”, Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Thammasat University, 2015. [3] X. Liu, “Factors Used by Chinese Tourists Traveling to Thailand to Select a Mobile Application for Online Accommodation Booking”, M.A. (Hospitality and Tourism Industry Management), Graduate School, Bangkok University, November 2017. [4] Guru99, accessed from: https://www.guru99.com/ introduction-to- database-sql.html, retrieved on: January 2021. [5] Vaishnavi M R, accessed from: https://www.edureka.co/blog/what- is-a-database/, retrieved on: January 2021.

Figure 9. Attractions page

In Figure 9, attractions information is separated into two types: x Selecting interesting attractions refers to tourists can set attractions the travel route by themselves. x Selecting interesting activities refers to tourists can set activities the travel route by themselves.

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