International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication ISSN: 2321-8169 Volume: 6 Issue: 3 179 - 181 ______________________________________________________________________________________ 179 IJRITCC | March 2018, Available @ http://www.ijritcc.org _______________________________________________________________________________________ Mobile Application for Travelling Activities- “Travel Mate” Aditee Varhadi BE-IT-Student, dept. Information Technology Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College Chembur, Mumbai. India vaditee@gmail.com Heli Shah BE-IT-Student, dept. Information Technology Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College Chembur, Mumbai. India. helishah3695@gmail.com ShreyasDamle BE-IT-Student, dept. Information Technology Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College Chembur, Mumbai. India. shreyasdamle2017@gmail.com Aakash Shete BE-IT-Student, dept. Information Technology Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College Chembur, Mumbai. India. aakashshete1997@gmail.com Archana Chaugule Assistant Prof., dept. Information Technology Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College Chembur, Mumbai. India archanachaugulesakec@gmail.com Abstract—The paper depicts travel guidance application on the android OS with the comparative analysis by grouping classification of mobile travel applications accessible at the moment for tourists in application stores for most popular mobile operation systems (Android and iOS). The most interesting classification is “Travel Partner” that combines “Information Resources” and “Location -Based Services” category. Keywords—Tourism, GPS, Smart-City, Application, Push notification. __________________________________________________*****_________________________________________________ I. INTRODUCTION With the help of world wide web it is easily possible to get all the relevant information about planning a trip. Current progresses of information and communication know-hows allow tourists to get thought-provoking information via the Internet during their trips. Smartphones having iOS and Android OS are delivering information to tourist through 700 million devices. Global Mobile data traffic is mounting rapidly to a remarkable share of 13% of the Internet traffic in 2012 [1]. In harmony with [2] about 50% of prevailing tourism recommender systems is premeditated for mobile devices. Tourism is widely affected by the inclusion of smart phone technology [3]. There are a lot of amenities and applications that allow shortening this search, proactively providing evidence around interesting magnetisms, user response, etc. Inharmony with [1] at the instant German Apple Store accounted around 780.000 apps and 36.000 travel apps (category Travel) on behalf of a market share of 4,62% of all presented apps. In harmony with [4] mobile travel guides have to provide context-dependent, multimedia-rich touring services for visitors. Authors propose in the paper an application “TravelMate”, which inculcates new features like discovering new travel mates, sharing of expenses, planning a trip, travel blogs, travel clubs, online conversation facilities. As information sources, it has been proposed to use different accessible Internet sources that provide actual and comprehensive text and multimedia information about different places of interests. The paper also endorses solution for following major issues that travelers face before initiating for a trip such as unaffordable expenses, lack of travelling experience, finding people with same interests etc. (adapted from [6]). The proposed system counters above mentioned issues by providing needful information depending on respective travel plans. The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section II presents an overview of existing applications. Section III Description and evaluation of mobile application “TravelMate”. Section IV Comparison of existing system and proposed system. Main results are summarized in Conclusion. II. Comparison of existing systems and proposed systems. S.No Name of Apps Features Compariso n w.r.to proposed applicatio n. 1 eChutti Online traveling app ✓ Detailed information ✓