Mobile Application Development for Tourist Guide in Pekanbaru City

Abstract

Abstract Pekanbaru City is a place that has a huge tourism potential. Pekanbaru is very strong with the Malay culture that is proven that Pekanbaru has many Malay style tourism buildings. The culture of Pekanbaru city has different attraction for tourists. Various information about tourism developments, supporting facilities, tourism objects, visitor information about the locals is important information to know. However, many unknown places are worth a visit but people do not know about their existence, because of the lack of public information. The purpose of this research is to design an application on an Android smartphone for Tour Guide Pekanbaru. The system will use GPS to find the user point and can provide information about tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants and shopping so that they can use the time in Pekanbaru effectively. The recommendation would be to use the neighboring K-nearby algorithm (KNN) to determine the closest place. The result of this tour guide is the user can detail information about tourist attractions, hotels, places to eat and shopping centers in the city of Pekanbaru as desired by the user. Tourist attraction information and directions with minimal GPS accuracy error 10 meters distance and maximum error 40 meters. The speed of the application in determining the user position depends on strong network signal and the condition of the surroundings