East Java Tourism Economic Development through Travel Trip Planner Application using Hybrid Collaborative-Content User Rating on Android

Tourism is a trips activity that made for the purpose of recreation. Generally, before traveling, someone is
going to determine the tourism places to be visited and then search for information about these locations.
Usually this information is available on the Internet or tourism mobile device applications. Generally,
user will determine the places based on something he likes, such as when someone loved quiet and chill
place will love to visit tourism location that have mountain sites. Currently, there are only a few
applications that have features to provide recommendations tourism location based on user preferences.
This research, will initiated Hybrid Collaborative-Content User Rating (HCCUR) methods which will
provide tourism places recommendations that compliance with user preferences and tourism places
categories, and also consider input from other users (rating) on tourism destination. This HCCUR method
will be implemented on android mobile device applications. Tourism data that will be use is tourism
places on East Java that already have a variety tourism categories to test the application algorithm. Goal
from this application also is to increase the east java province economic development via tourism
promotion. The Android application will display several lists tours that suit user preferences, alternative
travel route, details and travel information, view the tourism location by using Google Map. From the
testing that conduct to 50 potential users, we found that this recommendation application quite able to
fulfill the interest of the user.