Smart Tourism Village Application on Android Platform:

A Case Study - Serangan Tourism Village, Bali-Indonesia

Sri Andriati Asri

, I Nyoman Gede Arya Astawa

, I Gusti Agung Made Sunaya

I Made Riyan Adi Nugroho

and Widyadi Setiawan

Department of Electrical Engineeringt, Politeknik Negeri Bali, Kampus Bukit Street, Badung Bali, Indonesia

Department of Electrical Engineering, Udayana University, Badung Bali, Indonesia

Keywords: Smart Tourism Village, Android Platfrom, Prototyping Approach.

Abstract: Serangan Village is one of the tourism villages in Bali which is growing towards advanced and technological

tourism villages. It has almost all the tourism potential in the area, culinary, lodging, tourist attractions, and

art shops. In contrast to this situation, the Serangan Village does not have yet a mobile-based application to

promote and increase the volume of their village tourism businesses. This reasearch is aimed to development

a smart tourism application based on android platform using prototyping approach. The back-end application

used SLIM framework based on PHP. The application also used multiple web services and Javascripts

programming language for the front-end.

1 INTRODUCTION

Serangan Village is one of the tourism villages in Bali

which is growing towards advanced and

technological tourism villages. Serangan Village was

declared as a tourist village by regulation of the

Decree of the Mayor of Denpasar Number

188.45/472/HK/2015. According to the Minister of

Tourism of the Indonesian Republic on The Guide of

National Program of Community Empowerment

(PNPM Mandiri) of Tourism, a tourism village can be

stated as a village designed consciously or naturally

having the capability to attract visitors to come

because of the natural and cultural attraction

potencies.

The Serangan Village has almost all the tourism

potential in the area, culinary, lodging, tourist

attractions, and art shops. Here promotion using

information technology is very important to increase

tourist visits, to increase sales and income of the

village. Most people in Serangan Village are active

users both for social media or other mobile-based

applications (Asri et al., 2020). In contrast to this

situation, the Serangan Village does not have yet a

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mobile-based application to promote and increase the

volume of their village tourism businesses.

According to GlobalStats in 2020, the mobile

operating system market share in a worldwide

android operating system is 72,18% and 90,85% in

Indoenesia compared to other operating systems.

Based on these statistical data, the android operating

system smartphone is the smartphone that is well

known worldwide today compares to other

smartphone operating systems.

Based on this facts, this research develops an

application to promote the tourism potential of the

Serangan Village through an android-based

application. The application developed is an

application that integrates the management process

and promotion of village tourism potential resources.

Application management will be carried out together

between the village and the villagers. We called this

application is Smart Tourism Village Application.

Villagers can manage and promote their businesses

through smartphones.

The application provides the information needed

and gives an overview to the tourist. As a smart

tourism village application, the village can manage

Asri, S., Astawa, I., Sunaya, I., Nugroho, I. and Setiawan, W.

Smart Tourism Village Application on Android Platform: A Case Study - Serangan Tourism Village, Bali-Indonesia.

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and supervise all tourism businesses in their village

through the application. Furthermore, villagers who

own a tourism business can promote their business

through the application. They can also market and sell

their products. The application helps tourists get all

information about Serangan Village, including

culinary, tourism attractions, art shops, and lodging

information. It can also give the location information

of the tourism destinations on the village using

Google Maps.

2 RELATED WORKS

Android-based applications to support tourism have

been widely developed, both in Indonesia and

throughout the world. Each application has a

specificity according to its designation. The

application features are usually designed not only for

product promotion but also to give the location

information of a tourist attraction respectively. These

applications using GPS (Global Positioning System)

technology to guide tourists to the location via their

smartphone.

Android-based application development,

especially in the field of tourism, was developed by

many researchers. Tamil Nadu Tourism E-Gudide

was develop to provide tourism information to the

tourists for better places in one instant (Jithin et al.,

2018). The application claimed to be able to reduce

the time for tourists to find better tourism spots. An

android application of mapping the tourism potential

of Karanganyar Village Banyuwangi has been

deployed using GPS technology. The application

purposed to spread information and to enhance the

marketing the tourism potential of the village

worldwide (Idhom et al., 2019).

In Nigeria, a tourist guide android-based

application has been developed to provide

information for tourists. The development is to

address the challenges of where and how to get the

information. The purpose of the application is to give

the tourist adequate, complete, and current

information (Sadiku et al., 2019). An E Tourism-

Guide also was deployed in Sabang City, Indonesia.

The application using the android platform. The

application can provide tourist information In Sabang

City fast and accurately even without a tour guide or

coming to the information center directly (Wali et al.,

2019). The development of tourism applications

using the android platform is the right choice

considering a large number of android smartphone

users.

Digitization of tourism businesses can bring a

tourism village into a smart tourism village. The

digital platform's development makes the variety and

volume of products in the tourism business increase.

Hence the services and tourism experiences also

increase respectively, and it can cause the increasing

transaction speed, market awareness, and market

feedback (Pranita et al., 2020).

The smart village concept is derived from the

smart city, which is the use of ICT is a main part of

the development process. An example of developing

a smart city android-based application is Klaten

Smart City. This application provides information

about Klaten, including events and other information.

One of the features is tourism destinations. The

feature provides information about tourist sites in the

city, and user can share their experiences using the

submenu My data (Sari & Rachmawati, 2021). The

application provides a lot of data related to the city,

the smart tourism village application. The data

provided is the data that needed in tourism activities

in the village.

3 RESEARCH METHOD

The development method used to deploy this

application is the evolutionary prototyping approach.

3.1 Evolutionary Prototyping

Figure 1 shows the evolutionary prototyping

approach. The approach is the iterative evolutionary

prototyping processt hat receives certain inputs,

performs a few steps, and delivers output artifacts

(Nacheva, 2017).

Figure 1: The Evolutionary Prototyping Approach.

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3.1.1 System Requirements

The system requirement in this research is by doing

direct observations of the Serangan tourist village.

The actors, features, and system behaviors are set in

this phase.

Table 1 shows the tourism businesses owned by

the villagers and by the village itself

Table 1: Tourism Businesses in the village.

Tourism

Business

Main activities Products

Culinary Selling Food and

everage

Art Shop Selling and

ordering

Handicrafts,

cloths, and

aintings

Lodging Booking and

Rental

Rooms and

services

Tourism

destination

spot

Promoting and

ticketing

Attractions

Cultural

event

Promoting and

ticketin

Events

The potential actors(users) of the application shows

in Table 2.

Table 2: Potential actors (users).

Actors (users) Role

Villa

e Villa

e admin

Villa

ers Business owne

Tourists Guest

The system architecture is designed as follows.

Figure 2: The system architecture.

Figure 2 shows three users who can access the

application, in which the village has a role as an

admin who manages the entire application. The users

can access the smart tourism village application by

installing the application on their smartphones.

After the system requirements are set, the next

step is to choose the technologies or programming

languages that will be used in development. The

selection of programming technology and language is

based on the goals of the application. Either the

application is designed to be able to connect with

other applications WhatsApp or Facebook.

3.1.2 Prototyping Process

There are several phases in prototyping processes as

follows:

- System requirement analysis. After gathering the

data and the technologies and programming

languages afterward, we need to analyze the

features and user's roles.

- Sketching. The sketching phase is corresponds

with develop a plan. This phase the usecase,

database are designed. Figure 3 shows the use

case diagram of the villager as well as.

Figure 3: The Use Case of the Villagers.

Figure 4 shows the use case diagram of the tourist.

The use case diagram mapping the activities of users,

which is realized by the features of the application.

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Figure 4: The use case of the tourist.

The relational table diagram in back-end application

is shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: The relational table diagram.

- Prototyping development. The back-end

application is fully built, then the front application

is developed.

Prototyping processes is iterative process. After

the prototyping meets the requirement, it is ready to

be tested and then released to the client.

3.2 Testing

There are two main testing methods, white box and

black box testing in software development. White box

testing is sometimes called structural testing. It is

based on the information derived from the source

code of a test case. The white box testing must be run

by a tester that has with programming skill. Black box

testing is also called functional testing. The testing

run is based on the system functions that have been

determined at the requirements phase. The black box

testing tester does not have to has a specific

programming skill. Hence is the main advantage of

black box testing (Nidhra & Dondeti, 2012).

Smart tourism village application is tested using

black box testing. The application is parted into

several

unit testing, those are village profile, art

Table 3: Black box testing results of the login and village

units.

Scenario Expected

results

Testing

result

Status

Username

: (empty)

Password :

(empty)

The system

will display

a message:

username is

require

The system

displays a

message:

username is

require

success

Username:

(empty)

Password :

admin

The system

will display

a message:

username is

require

The system

displays a

message:

username is

require

success

Username

: email

address

Password :

(empty)

The system

will display

a message:

invalid data

The system

displays a

message:

invalid data

Success

Username

: email

address

Password :

text

The system

will accept

the input

and

proceed.

The system

accepts the

input and

proceed.

Success

Log out

The system

will display

the landing

The system

displays the

landing

Success

admin,

Click

menu :

village

The system

will show

the village

profile

The system

shows the

village

profile

Success

admin,

Click

menu :

edit/update

The system

will display

updated

village

profile

The system

displays

updated

village

profile

Success

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shops, lodging, culinary, tourist attraction, and event

unit. Table 3 shows the black box testing results of

the application.

Other advantages are the testing is carried out by

the third party to avoid developer bias, and it’s

efficient when we run the black box testing for the

larger system (Verma et al., 2017). Due to the ease

and advantages of using black testing, this test is

generally used in various cases. Black box testing

became the preferred choice for testing software or

information systems. An example of using black-box

testing is the madrasah e-learning system. The system

is parted into several units with various testing

scenarios. There are login, class setting, computer-

based test, and student learning evaluation testing unit

(Sutiah & Supriyono, 2021).

4 RESULT AND DISCUSSION

Back-end application was deployed using the SLIM

framework based on PHP. SLIM framework is used

to write the web services. The back-end application

was deployed using the SLIM framework based on

PHP. A SLIM framework is used to write the web

services. The framework can connect multiple

applications that can not share the same resources

(Martin et al., 2014). The SLIM framework has good

performance at speed and lightness compared with

other frameworks for back-end applications, hence

the Laravel framework (Sunardi & Suharjito, 2019).

Table 4 shows the front-end development tools.

Hence the middleware application used multiple web

services with a message broker

Table 4: The front-end development tools.

Categor

Tools

Platform Microsoft Windows, Android

SDK 17

IDE Android Studio, Visual Studio

Code

Technology Web Services, JSON, Axios,

Nuxt, Capacito

Database MySQL

Programming

Lan

JavaScript

API Leaflet API, Google Maps API,

Facebook API, WhatsA

API

Figure 6 shows the smart tourism village

application’s home page.

Figure 6: The application’s home page.

Firstly, users must install the smart tourism village

application into their smartphones to get the

application's access. Then the home page will show

the profile of Serangan Village. Users can browse all

the information about Serangan Village by clicking a

menu or an icon on the application. Figure 7 shows

the features of the application. Those are Desa

(village), Beranda (dashboard), Obyek Wisata

(tourist attraction), Penginapan (lodging), Artshops,

Kuliner (culinary), and Events.

Figure 7: The application’s features.

The culinary page is shown in Figure 8. Users can

find the information about culinary by clicking

Kuliner in the application.

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Figure 8: The culinary page.

Each feature is completed with a location map and

sharing buttons to social media. The tourists can

guided to the location by clicking the location button,

also turn on the GPS on their smartphone. If the

tourists want to know about the cultural events in

Serangan Village they can click the Events button.

Tourists can read the event’s information via this

feature. Tourists can find the lodging in the village

and booking the lodging their needed by clicking the

Penginapan (lodging) feature.

The villagers can manage their tourism businesses

via smartphones also. They can add new products and

input pictures or photos of the products. They can also

receive the orders through the application installed.

Figure 9 shows the village admin page of the

application.

Figure 9: The village admin page.

The village admins can manage and monitor the

tourism business in the village via the installed

application on their smartphones. The admins can

monitor how many tourism businesses are registered,

and add a new tourism business to the application.

The admin also can get the transaction volume

information of the tourism business managed by the

village. The smart tourism village application was

deployed according to the specific requirements of

the Serangan Village as shown in Table 1. We used

multiple web services to deploy social media sharing

and find location features.

The goal of the application is to make Serangan a

smart tourism village, that can promote village

tourism potentials. As a tourism village, Serangan

must have a strong will to manage and promote its

potentials using ICT. The application is featuring

with social media sharing. Tourists can share their

experiences through social media. The aim of

featuring applications with social media sharing is to

get splash and fast promotion doing by the tourist.

Todays the power of social media promotions can

bring big impact on the product's marketing.

Unlike e-tourism application that only provides

one or two features, the android based smart tourism

village application provides many features to

accommodate the tourism businesses. Village and

villagers can manage, monitor, and promote their

businesses with their own. Village and villagers can

manage, monitor, and promote their businesses on

their own. This is an essential thing of being a smart

village.

Future works, an integrated smart tourism

application can be deployed to connect many tourism

villages in the same area or a province. They can link

the databases to share information and give goog

services to the customer. A payment gateway can be

added to the application, in which the application can

give payment method flexibility.

5 CONCLUSIONS

The smart tourism village application of Serangan

Village has many features, to accommodate various

tourism businesses in the village. Village and

villagers can manage and promote their business

through the application. It is like a one-stop

application for tourists to visit Serangan Village.

The back-end application used SLIM framework

based on PHP. The application also used multiple

web services and Javascripts programming language

for the front-end.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This research was supported by the Directorate of

Research and Community Service, Director General

of Development and Research Enhancement,

Ministry of Education, Cultural, Research and

Technology of Indonesia.

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