Ashish Deshpande

Ruban Monu

Subhav Mital

Swapnil Shinde

•Wandering aimlessly in an unacquainted foreign location?•Commercially motivated Travel Agents offer biased suggestions •Wouldn’t you wish to have a helping hand at such a distressful situation?

Solution•Seek instant and unbiased advise from friends•Enforcing a sharing-travel based application •Assist the user in planning their own travel itinerary effectively

Consider Wanderer and Loner, two friends who have decided to break the monotony and move out on a fun trip

Wanderer –• Pocket conscious individual• Requires adequate planning before he reaches NY and wants some assistance

Loner –• A happy-go-lucky individual who has left much to chance• Believes in ad-hoc planning when he arrives at Miami

Loner Wanderer Confused about possible places to visit in Miami

Uses Wanderlust dropdown to fetch locations in NY

Consults travel agents and is still as confused as before

IMs on the place markers and gets unbiased information

Gets stuck in a tornado warning on his way

Checks current weather info on Wanderlust and plans accordingly

Finds that his favorite resort is closed for maintenance

Finds a bonus offers through Yelp reviews and local tweets

Fooled into visiting locations that he was not really interested in

Checks out photos of his prospective destination in Wanderlust page

Had a not so great trip Had an awesome trip!

Architecture

Key Features

Map based UI

Weather Notification

Chat with acquaintances

Local Tweets and Yelp Reviews

YouTube Travel Videos

Related blogs and travelogues

Panoramio Photos

Future Work-• Hotel Reviews

• Driving Directions

• Creating user communities to share experiences

• Trip pooling

• Expert Groups

Performance evaluation-•Most of the data is fetched from appropriate web sources•DB only keeps track of users•Little point of bottleneck

•Cache source URLs for mostly popular destinations•Plan to measure average response time/Latency using query strobes•JMeter performance analysis tool

To conclude …

Acknowledgement –Prof. Ling Liu

Questions?