BD-Print: An Android based for bilingual digital promotion of integrated tourism in Garut Selatan

Abstract

South Garut has tourism potential areas in Indonesia. However, the lack of government attention and information of the tourist area in South Garut resulted a lack of tourists coming. South Garut tourism will be more accessible by developing an information system that implements the Android system as a promotional medium to introduce tourist objects. This study is undertaken to design an Android-based BD-Print application to assist the development of the regional potential tourism sector in the Southern Garut. The BD-Print system development will use the System Development Life Cycle approach with the Waterfall method. This application has gone through several process such as planning, system analyzing, crafting, implementation, testing and development. Result of the experiment are: 1) The application programs created by using Android run well. 2) The features existed in the application program runs well as the main menu displays other menu options, login menu, tourism menu that displays some options of available tourist destinations, and mapping that displays the route from the current location to the location of the object destination tours. 3) This BD-Print application suits well as a reference for tourists that are going on a vacation without being accompany by tour guide.