Problem Case

Problem we want to solve:

There is no existing application that can provide a personalized mobile travel management service. While preparing a travel plan, one can get easily overwhelmed by the information about all kinds of tourist attractions. It takes a lot of time and effort with a general search engine to zero-in on suitable tourist destinations. Moreover, after the tourist gets the information, there is no existing convenient way he/she can save and retrieve the information at a later time and make a travel schedule.

Background Research

In recent years, mobile applications are frequently used by people when they prepare their travel plans. Websites like Yelp and tripadvisor can provide the information of services based on people's location. And it can also navigate people to their destination. Other mobile applications can provide detailed information about tourist attractions, like Qiongyoujinnang (China). Also some applications like tripit can help user to store the information they typed in. However, the recommendation function usually only considers limited factors--location or scores. Moreover, the existing applications haven't integrated all the functions users need into one application.

Value/Benefits Expected:

For tourists

* Get personalized tourist attraction recommendation.

* Simplify travel plan preparation.

* Provide more efficient way to manage the travel information

For businesses

* Service fees can be charged if the tourist attraction operators want to display more details about the tourist attraction (For example, for displaying more photos than a certain number, activity advertisement)

* Service fees can be charged if the attraction operators want to conduct a survey or host other kind of online activities with the platform.

Expected Deliverable:

* A website which gives personalized travel recommendations

* Easy to use travel planner

* Travel schedule information management

* Mobile application based on Android