M-Guide: Recommending Systems of Food Centre in Buleleng Regency

Buleleng is Regency located in the North of Bali. Buleleng becomes one of the tourist destinations for both domestic and international tourist to travel. Buleleng Regency is known for its natural attractions. Besides its numbers of tourist attractions, this Regency also presents a lot of food choices, especially special cuisine in Buleleng. Not only has the special cuisine, Buleleng also had many choices of foods from the outside area. The price, the taste, the atmosphere (view), the service and the facilities vary at each centre. So, the tourists who visit Buleleng are confused when they have to choose one. This system stores 140 food courts in the Buleleng area and each of them is grouped into 15 groups based on its territories. Based on this reason, the collaborative method was chosen for this system. Besides the collaborative method, this system also uses the Location-Based Service (LBS) technology that utilizes the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its application, which the users can find out their position, define and search for specific locations either far or near; one of them is finding the food centre in the area of Buleleng Regency. This system is running on an Android mobile device. This system is expected to (1) facilitate the user in searching the food centre in the area of Buleleng Regency (2) the user can find out the nearest food centre from their location.