Android Application for Tourism Planning in Bangladesh

Abstract

Tourism is currently considered one of the fastest-growing socio-economic phenomenon of the world. Like all the other countries, Bangladesh is experiencing a steady growth in the tourism sector, producing economic benefits as well as employment opportunities. This paper describes the entire process comprising the theory and software implementation of a tour planner Android application. Our proposed tour planner application has been designed to overcome the primary challenges of travel and tourism by reducing the stress of the traveler and making a simple tour planning concerning individual user demand. This Android application is basically a personalized travel guide, where users can arrange a tour based on their budget and duration of the estimated travel. In this work, the front-end part of the application has been designed by the React Native framework. Apollo Client library has been used to connect the front-end app with the back-end express server. Several functions, e.g., Bcrypt, JSON Web Token, and cookie-parser have been utilized to provide security of the application. Users will get detailed information about a tourist spot with a simple tap or swipe, including the weather, transport, hotels, local guides, etc. There is a review option in the application that will help people to find and choose the best destination according to a few criteria like safety, service, cleanness, connectivity, transportation, and other available facilities.