A Development of Supporting System for Historical Heritage Based Tourism

Boonmee, Salinun (Department of Information System and Business Computer, Faculty of Business Administration and Information Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Thailand)
Somsuphaprungyos, Suwit (Department of Information System and Business Computer, Faculty of Business Administration and Information Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Thailand)
Natho, Parinya (Department of Information System and Business Computer, Faculty of Business Administration and Information Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Thailand)
Boonying, Sangtong (Department of Information System and Business Computer, Faculty of Business Administration and Information Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi, Thailand)

Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (IJEEI)
Vol 12, No 3: September 2024

Tourism is a major economic contributor in Thailand. With the richness of historical heritage recognized as world heritages, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province is a famous destination for tourists who enjoy historical and cultural tourism. This work presents a development of a supporting system for tourism in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province in regarding of historical and cultural aspects of heritages. This work designs an ontology to represent a relation network of properties from tourist attractions based on historical and cultural relationship among them. Instances which are the heritages hence are related and can be visualized in a form of a graph. The suggestion module is designed to provide related tourist destination following the relations from the generated knowledge graph based on the initial query of a user. The experiment results signify that the system revealed hidden historical relations of destinations to users and made them learn the values of history lied within heritages. Furthermore, 87.5% of participants decided to make a tour plan following the suggested destinations since they found the linking in historical values to be more meaningful and interesting.