Malaysia vacations planner (MVP)

Ng, Shi Xian (2014) Malaysia vacations planner (MVP). Project Report. UTeM. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Today, the growth of technology has lead into the development of many aspect, especially in tourism. Mobile technology is becoming vital for tourism business. Travelers are using their smartphone’s Internet capabilities to help them gather holiday information and book tickets. However, planning a trip by your own is not easy. One needs to do a lot of research on particular travel area before they can plan their trip. This may use up a lot of time and cause burden for those who have no experience in planning a trip. As year 2014 is the nation biggest and grandest tourism celebration with Malaysia Truly Asia's, there is a need to develop a mobile application that will assist user to plan vacation in Malaysia. Basically, Malaysia Vacations Planner (MVP) is an easy-to-use, mobile application that allows user to plan their vacation in Malaysia. User just need to key in the visiting location and days, and the application will suggest a feasible itinerary. The application will suggest to user on which places to visit, duration per places and transport mode. The aim of this project is to assist tourist to plan their vacation and to ensure tourist could maximize the value of time spent in Malaysia with the optimal vacation plan. The agile software development methodology has been selected as the software development reference to this project. This methodology is an iterative, team-based approach to development and it emphasizes the rapid delivery of an application in complete functional components. It is a good model for environments that encounters changes. With MVP, user experience can be improved as the system will suggest the attraction places to visit once user select the travel area and enter the number of visiting days. This application will help user to save time in researching for attraction places in a state.

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