Antique tourism portal

Abstract

The study was designed to develop a tourism portal for the Province of Antique. It focused on the following objectives: A search module that will allow guests to easily search for a specific keyword regarding tourism in Antique, a page that will view specific tourism information, an interactive map with travel direction, a module that will view events, a module for administrator to maintain web contents, a module for business owners to create a page, and a page that will provide registration of existing websites.

The methodology used for the development of the system is the Iterative Systems Development Life Cycle which has the following stages; Business Modeling, Planning and Requirement, Analysis and Design, Implementation, Testing and Evaluation, and Deployment.

Results showed that the proposed Antique Tourism Portal will greatly benefit the Tourism of the province of Antique. The system will serve as a unified gateway for finding information regarding tourist attractions, accommodation facilities, travel and business and events in the province, and direction using an interactive map of the province.

Based on the above conclusion, the group recommends the implementation of Antique Tourism Portal as an alternative to the current manual system since it will help advertise information regarding Antique, speed up the process, and is easier to access and convenient for the users. For further improvement, the future researchers can enhance and provide additional features such as forums, video uploading, video streaming, online purchasing of local products, real-time searching, and a real-time map.