Android Application as a Information System of Sunda Gastronomic for Tourism Attraction in Bandung City

Abstract

Bandung city in West Java Province has been established as a Priority and Branding culinary destination set by the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia in 2016. The city has a diversity of gastronomic cultural heritage as a support for gastronomic tourism that still preserves the local culture, with unique and authentic characteristics of ethnic Sundanese as tourism products.This tourist attraction has become one of the choices for local, domestic, and foreign tourist to get experience while doing tourist activities. Activity tasting a variety of menus as authentic dishes in Sundanese specialities restaurants, buying various souvenirs and merchandise, seeing attraction making food and beverage, and story telling as the identity of the Sundanese as a native in Bandung City. Researchers have not seen the existence of a Sundanese gastronomic tourism technology information system as a tourist attraction that is feasible easily, and efficiently can be visited by local people, domestic and foreign tourists. The development of Linux-based mobile technology such as Android as a smartphone operating system is quite popular among the general public, and has an affordable cost. Also it is open source, allowing users to develop comprehensive gastronomic education tourism mapping features. Explorative analytical descriptive method of the gastronomic component as a tourist attraction is the name of a restaurant / souvenir center, location, accessibility, amenities, management, description, unique and superior values, also spatial mapping in the city of Bandung. The result is an appropriate technology design based on android application as a Sundanese gastronomic tourism information system in the city of Bandung as a tourist attraction that can be accessed online by tourist