AERISTELLE: INTELLIGENT TRAVEL VIRTUAL PRESENTATION OF SELECTED TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF RIZAL

Abstract

The primary aim of the study is to develop an application Aeristelle: Intelligent Travel Virtual Presentation of Selected Tourist Destinations in the Province of Rizal where the primary aim is to help improve the tourism promotion of the selected areas in Rizal province. Aeristelle only covers selected tourist destination from eight selected municipalities of the Rizal province that has lowest tourist arrivals based on the information given by the Tourism Office of Rizal. The researcher implements Artificial Intelligence specifically Natural Language Processing or NLP through the development tools namely Dialogflow and Firebase by Google for the storage of external data. NLP algorithm of Dialogflow were utilized in the analysis of the response module of Aeristelle where the information regarding tourism promotion of the selected areas of Rizal Province were provided by the Rizal tourism office. The external data such as images of the tourist destination and location map, and Audio-Visual Presentation are stored in Google Firebase. The researcher also used waterfall model for the actual software development and mixed method approach of research through interview and use of survey questionnaire. The entire process of the study includes data gathering where the researcher conducts series of interview to the staff of Rizal Tourism office, software development utilizing waterfall model, system evaluation where selected IT professionals evaluates the system. Acceptability test where also conducted to the staff of Rizal Tourism office where they test and assessed the application if it meets the requirements given. The result of evaluation of the IT professionals was based on selected criteria of ISO/IEC 25010 or the Systems and software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuare). The result of the evaluation of the developed application in terms of Functionality, Reliability, Usability, Efficiency, Maintainability, Security and Portability, Aeristelle got the overall rate of the evaluation of 3.84 meaning, it exceeds the expectations according to the IT experts who assessed the application. The researcher also conducts a software acceptability test to the staff of Tourism Office of Rizal wherein, they test and evaluated the application if it meets the requirements. Based on the result of the software acceptability test, developed application is acceptable based on the assessment of the staffs who is also one of the beneficiaries in the study. From the results of the study, the enhancement of tourism promotion in the province of Rizal is possible through the integration of Artificial intelligence and the researcher found out that the tourist companion application software Aeristelle is beneficial to the tourist and helps in tourism promotion of the said province.