DESIGN AN ONLINE TOURISM INFORMATION SYSTEM WITH GROUND TRANSPORTATION PLANNER FOR TOURISM DEPARTMENT IN INDONESIAN ECONOMIC AND TRADE OFFICE (IETO) TO TAIPEI

[[abstract]]Today's Tourism is an competitive industry increasingly determined by the ability to develop and assimilate innovative ways to respond to the dynamic nature of the tourism environment and its new paradigms to provide value-added tourist services. The current system in Tourism Department in Indonesian Economic and Trade Office (IETO) to Taipei only provide basic information for tourist candidate, and it is not interactive enough as the user could only download the article. The current system also create an extra job for IETO's staff. The study aims to bring about the changes, development and better improvement to the current IETO's tourism information system to be more interactive through the effective use of computer technology in terms of information management, to provide both value and service to attract more tourists to visit Indonesia. The study also introducing a Transportation Planner as a value-added service which is enabled the tourist candidates to generate their own information. Based on a use-case driven object-oriented system development methodology, we design multiple steps in system development i.e. Identify Implementation Environment, Design Business Process,Identify Actor, Design Use Case, Design Class, Design Object, Design Database,Design Module, Design User Interface, Coding, and Testing. The model we built using UML language, and through all these steps a system is built. After we built and tested this new tourism system, we found that the system improved the information management and the interactivity in Tourism Department in IETO. The improvement in information management offered by categorization of informations, i.e. News, Lodgings, Attractions, and Foods and Drinks. The improvement in interactivity offered by installing the Transportation Planner as the added value for the potential tourist who visit the site. We suggest the study could be continued further in order to realize the potential of the new system offered that could bring benefit to the tourism industry of Indonesia. The system could be expanded to cover all the province in Indonesia and each one have their own looks and contents but share the same design. It could be extended to have a level of multiple Administrator that responsible for each province but only have single Super Administrator that watching all the province contents in general