Mobile tourism application using augmented reality

Indonesia as an archipelagic country that has diverse cultures and beautiful natures. This is some factor towing the arrival of tourists to visit Indonesia. Today many tourists from abroad and even from within their own country do not know the beauty of natures and cultures in Indonesia. Therefore, this research have been done to build an android application called “Exploresia” to provide information about tourism in Indonesia using Augmented Reality technology. This research begins with collecting data of tourism and cultures in 34 provinces in Indonesia. These data was processed into text, 2D image, 3D objects and video and displayed virtually through a mobile application. Users can interact with this mobile application by selecting province, sights and explore the object with 360 virtual tours. As a trigger for displaying virtual data, made a map of Indonesia as a marker and also coordinates to display the virtual data. Exploresia has been tested to 50 respondents from different segmentation to see how much influence of this app to attract tourist come to Indonesia. 93.6% of respondents agree that Exploresia provides a new way to get information on tourism in Indonesia and 96% of respondents agree that this mobile app help to promote tourism destinations in Indonesia so that tourists be interested in coming to Indonesia. The use of AR in mobile apps is expected to provide added value so that user can receive the message delivered and keen to visit Indonesia.