Smart Tour PE: um aplicativo android para monitoramento remoto de pontos turísticos no estado Pernambuco

Abstract

The tourism sector has been growing sustainably since the 90s, and not even the period of economic downturn at the time was able to stop it. In recent years, around 2018 and 2019, the sector was breaking new records of international arrivals, with the COVID19 pandemic being the only “disaster” capable of stopping this success streak. More than a year after the beginning of the pandemic, thanks to the medical advances allowing the creation of effective vaccines and viable means to return to normality, it is expected that the search for tourist destinations will grow again very soon, with ecotourism being pointed out as the most likely niche to be sought after. Therefore, it is important that technological solutions are made available to support tourism, especially ecotourism. This undergraduate thesis is the idealization of a tool to help tourists dynamically choose their next travel destination based on the location’s real time weather. Accurate information about the climate will ensure that tourists make the most of their leisure time, being able to visit a place that most suits them, from beaches to tree lined hiking trails in preservation areas, based on climate reports. The real time weather reports from tourist attractions will be displayed through an application idealized in this undergraduate thesis, designed to work on mobile devices with internet access. This application will use information from weather stations installed in tourist attractions in the state of Pernambuco during the execution of the research project related to this undergraduate thesis, also offering the user geolocation data, video streaming from local cameras, routes to access the desired location, as well as additional information about utility telephones and a panic buttons for emergencies. According to usability tests carried out with the target audience, only 3% of them considered the application difficult to use and 97% considered it easy or extremely easy to use. In addition, the application scored 75 points in the Net Promoter Score indicator, with the average for the tourism sector in Brazil being 70 points, additionally to several other positive indicators to be explained later.