A Development of Application for Religious Tourisms of New Activity Context of Sisaket Province
Keywords:
Application, Religious tourism, Religious place, The new activity contextAbstract
This study aimed to 1) study guidelines for preparing information for religious tourism of new activity context of Sisaket province 2) develop preparing information applications for religious tourisms of new activity context of Sisaket province 3) evaluate the performance of applications 4) study satisfaction by applications. The research sample group 1) 10 experts for evaluating efficiency 2) 400 users evaluated their satisfaction. The tools for this research are 1) interview form 2) application for religious tourisms of new activity context of Sisaket province 3) efficiency questionnaire 4) satisfaction questionnaire. Statistics used include mean and standard deviation.
The research results found that 1) guidelines for preparing information include: Identify religious tourist attractions, specify activities, describe arts, culture and local wisdom. Record tourist attraction information in the database. Disseminate information on the internet network system allowing for distribution across multiple platforms. 2) the developed application, it was found that the database management system developed with PHP programming language and MySQL was able to record and update travel activity information as designed web applications developed with Flutter framework using Dart language, developed on android studio and the developed of navigation processing systems using Google Maps API technology, applications can perform as designed. 3) the performance evaluation results of the application found that have the good level, overall mean was 4.17, standard deviation 0.35. 4) the satisfaction study results found that have the very good level of satisfaction The overall mean was 4.63, standard deviation 0.56
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