Web Application Development for Tourism

Running head: WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT.
Web Application Development for Tourism
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Introduction
With the rapid change in the internet technology, it has helped people in getting
different kinds of service with a few clicks on their workstations and smartphones. In a
similar manner for the tourism industry, the internet is widely applied to meet the consumer
expectations (Ho, Lin and Chen 2012). One of the frequently accessed information is related
to the tourism on the internet. Websites related to tourism plays a vital role in influencing the
decisions of an individual before making their choice for the tour (Murphy, Chen and
Cossutta 2016).
With the globalization of the tourism market and availability of data, it is crucial that
tourists coming from different regions and countries, therefore, it is vital for the tourism-
related websites to provide services on their site for the users from different regions of
numerous languages, currencies and cultural differences.
Project design
Application design
As it is intended to attract the most of the targeted users therefore, it is essential to
develop the website that is accessible from devices having different screen sizes and running
on different operating systems. With the responsive design of the website, it will be helpful
in reaching out to the different type of users.
The primary motive behind the design of the web application are following:
 Promoting and increasing the tourism in Malaysia.
 Presenting visual content that covers significant tourist areas of interest for the
potential visitors to the website.

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 In the improved versions of the website, it is intended to provide an electronic
event calendar that will be helpful in tracking local events of a specific region.
 In order to provide an easy-to-navigate informational website that attracts the
tourists to Malaysia.
Promoting the tourist sites through social media is also essential therefore the pages of
the websites are integrating with social media links so that the users can share their
experience through the social networking platforms which will help in influencing other
potential visitors to the site.
Design features
Easy Navigability for the users: For the proposed site, it will have intuitive
navigational controls that will enable the visitors to easily navigate between the different
pages or sections of the page. Different sections of the website will be understandable and
placed in a logical manner. For all the pages, the website will use a standardized style and a
common framework to maintain consistency (Ho, Lin and Chen 2012). The design concept is
selected after considering multiple design patterns used for different sites.
Figure 1: Responsiveness of the content on the pages

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The website is developed in such a way that it can be accessed through the different
devices easily irrespective of the screen size. Thus the page content and the navigational
controls on the pages are rendered accordingly to make the site easy to use for the visitor.
Figure 2: View of the “About us” page on the iPad Screen
Interactivity: For the designing of the website it is important to develop it in such a
way that it provokes the users to interact with it. In this way it allows the users/ visitors of the
site to request information, communicate, post approved comments and photos about their
travel to Malaysia, as well as asking questions and conveying suggestions to the authorities
(Murphy, Chen and Cossutta 2016).
Ease of use and information availability: A fruitful site is one that attracts the in
clients, engages them attractive. Fundamentally, client fulfilment is based on two assessment
criteria’s: 'available data' and 'usability.' 'Data content' is the appraisal of data given on the
site. That is, it is helpful, and up and coming, it matches client needs furthermore, joins