A Travel Itinerary Planning Application under Safety Constraints

Abstract

The tourism industry has grown continuously. It generates a large amount of income for the country each year. Past data indicates that safety confidence is one of the major factors affecting tourism. Unfortunately, there are only a few existing research studies on travel planners that consider those safety factors. These research works are not comprehensive. Hence, this research proposes a travel itinerary planning application under safety constraints. Safety factors in tourism can be classified into three classes such as past danger, present danger and safety support. There are 3 main processes which are the filtering of unsafe locations and routes, route planning process under time constraints using the progressive routing algorithm, and the process of travel plans ranking based on an analytic network process. The application presents the travel plan in a map. The usability evaluation of experts indicates that the overall scores are in the highest level in every aspect ( x= 4.45, S.D. = 0.43).

Keywords

• travel planning
• safety
• analytic network process
• application