Implementation of Location Base Service on Tourism Places in West Nusa Tenggara by using Smartphone

The study is aimed to create an application that can assist users in finding information about tourism places in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. West Nusa Tenggara is one of the provinces in Indonesia and one of the second tourists’ destinations after Bali. It is a small Sunda Island which consists of two large islands located in the west of Lombok and Sumbawa that located in the east to the capital of Mataram on the island of Lombok. The area of West Nusa Tenggara province is 19,708.79 km2. The application provides information such as descriptions of sights, tourism spot address, photo galleries, and the available facilities and the closest track to where the tourism spot is by using Google maps. Google maps can display map locations and closest routes from the user's position to the tourism place. Determination of the position of the user and position of Tourism sites using GPS (Global Positioning System). This application is made by using the Java programming language for Android with Eclipse 4.2.1 IDE that can be used on the Smartphone device based on Android. The result of the research is the creation of location-based services applications to search a place of Tourism in West Nusa Tenggara province so as to help tourists visiting the West Nusa Tenggara. The benefit of this application is that to determine the path in finding the tourism places.

@article{Gunawan2015,
  title     = {Implementation of Location Base Service on Tourism Places in West Nusa Tenggara by using Smartphone},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {6},
  number    = {8},
  year      = {2015},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Karya Gunawan and Bambang Eka Purnama},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060822},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2015.060822}
}