A survey on top-ranked android traveling applications to assist in planning itineraries

Having applications to support traveling becomes increasingly a standard for someone who wants to visit places either for pleasure or work. It normally assists the traveler when searching for places to go, airfare tickets, hotels, activities to do, and creating an itinerary before departure until arrival. This paper presents a survey on several Android applications for traveling purposes. The survey focuses more on how the applications provide a complete itinerary to ease users prior to their trip. Among eight applications that were reviewed systematically, the main findings are one application provides an automatic itinerary creator, one application focuses on the local destination, five applications support review and rating, one application has the ability to calculate the cost, and thus, there is a need to have a smart itinerary generator for local destinations within a traveling application. Smart itinerary means the application can generate the best itinerary based on user needs, including the estimated expenses.