Recommended System for Educational Literary Tourism Organization Using Information Technologies

The presented concept of organizing literary tourism describes the development of an information system that allows filling the database with all the necessary information for the implementation of the literary tourism educational goals, taking into account users' needs. One of the development directions of modern educational tourism is specialized for the study of specific academic disciplines. To organize literary tourism at the system level, there is a need to develop a large number of routes, which requires a lot of time and study of huge amounts of information, since it is necessary to study all the works and biography of each of the authors to identify all available places to visit. To optimize this activity, e-tourism tools are actively used. Empirical research methods based on observation and research in the implementation of literary educational tourism using information technology are used. The developed software implements methodological, mathematical, algorithmic software support for the process of organizing literary tourism in St. Petersburg, contributes to a complete study of the literary authors’ heritage and the facts of their biography, and also allows the organization of thematic tours in causal relationships on related topics of literary directions. Several requirements have been formulated: support for web application elements, the ability to create a graphical interface, support for object-oriented programming technologies. The designed and implemented information system, due to the ability to automatically extract the needed information, significantly saves time and financial resources of users, which confirms the study's relevance and the need to develop the described information system, which has successfully passed testing and approbation. In the course of surveys of students and teachers, the developed information technology's pedagogical effectiveness was proved for both the student and the teacher. Students could automatically build individual routes and search for works; achieved greater immersion in the educational material due to visualization. The significance of the results obtained lies in students' enthusiasm and motivation for a comprehensive study of literary works, biographies of authors, and historical places in which the storyline is implemented through direct tourist immersion. Prospects for further development imply a complete transition to web technologies to further popularize this information system among a larger user audience of students and teachers.