Design of tourism application for Morotai island

Abstract

Abstract Morotai Island Regency is one of the new districts located in the eastern tip of North Maluku Province, Northern Indonesia. Morotai Island has several beautiful tourist spots that attracts the attention of foreign and local tourists to visit the places. The aim of the research was to discuss the use of internet technology as a medium for the introduction of Morotai Island tourism. The research intended to make a mobile application for tour packages and location-based services (LBS) so that it could find out routes and locations to destinations easily and quickly. The mobile application used some media or storage assistance in MySQL for databases on the Web server. The search application also had the main feature that could find the easiest and closest destination location based on where the user’s location was located just by utilising GPS technology. The results of the research present a geographic information system (GIS) or application for Morotai Island tourist destinations and show that this information media is feasible. The app is for tourists to know and find the location of attractions easily and quickly.