• Tourism Database Management System Using Data Warehouse Approach

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    • 2.7.1    ANALYSIS OF DATA SOURCES
      The current information sources at MoT are portrayed as takes after:
      (1)    Oracle databases which cover distinctive areas in tourism, for example:
      â–ª    Visitors' numbers information as indicated by their nationality and date of visit.
      â–ª    Tourism night's information nitty gritty as indicated by the kind of visit and traveler's nation and date of visit.
      â–ª    Ports and movement information nitty gritty as indicated by the ports, the means for arriving, and date of visit.
      â–ª    Tourism guides information point by point as per aide's specialization, capability, dialects, date of permit and governorate.
      (2)    Access databases which is concerned with the segment of landmarks itemized by landmark and its case and date of visit.
      (3)    Airplane terminals information recorded as indicated by the date, the air terminal and kind of movement.
      (4)    Hotel information recorded as per the date, the hotel and hotel type.
      (5)    Information about cataclysmic occasions.
      The information about hotel and cataclysmic occasions is found in written or typed document, therefore information has to be entered before going on its outline as a DW cube (Hendawi and El-Shishiny, 2016).
      2.8    DATA WAREHOUSE IN CHINA TOURISM
      The need for the implementation of data warehousing was found necessary in the tourism industry of China based on the rapid development of the industry. The rapid development of the industry has brought new challenges to the tourism public management service system. Step by step instructions to adjust to profoundly complex tourism market changes, to detail sensible improvement techniques, to take care of the demand of autonomous, adaptable, customized tourism administration prerequisites, and to secure long haul feasible advancement and upkeep of the tourism business have gotten to be significant issues for building up the present tourism industry in China (Qiao et al., 2013).
      The data based idea has given exploration thoughts and answers for the development of tourism public management and service systems. A basic managerial policymaking and information exploration stage in light of data warehousing is advanced, and to get long haul maintainable improvement and support of the tourism business have gotten to be real issues for building up the present tourism industry in China (Qiao et al., 2013).
      Be that as it may, exploration and utilization of huge information idea is still in its early stages. The top to bottom studies on changes and effects of enormous information from the perspective of administration and insightful basic leadership are extremely constrained. The utilization of enormous information in the tourism business, especially by tourism endeavors, is considerably more restricted and exceptionally uncommon in modern advancement strategy making by government. Therefore, a decision-making support and data analysis platform based on data warehousing is put forward to handle the prevailing situation (Qiao et al., 2013).
      2.9    DATA WAREHOUSE IN ROMANIAN TOURISM
      From the perspective of Darubianu et al (2009) tourism as a sector of the national (Rome) economy and part of the tertiary area, tourism has a vital part in monetary and social life going about as a component that fuels the global economic system, as a method for broadening of monetary structure and as a component of education. Due to the association with numerous different parts of the economy, tourism is an industry of impedance and as an aftereffect of that is in light of results acquired in different branches of activity is an economic branch of outcome.
      Nevertheless, so as to right any deviations in execution, managers in the Romanian tourism business regularly require timely analysis reports to gauge and screen the execution rate, increment and diminishing in tourists numbers, tourism evenings, and rate of lodging occupations, visits to landmark places, furthermore, the aggregate income from the tourism area at the national level. They additionally require timely analysis reports to help with settling on long-term decision. It was perceived that vast majority of the reporting and analysis, more time was spent on gathering information from the different frameworks before the analysis can be made, and managers of the tourism sector need more data, yet analysts can give just insignificant data at a high cost inside the wanted time spans. With a specific end goal to give data to foreseeing examples and patterns all the more convincingly and for dissecting an issue or a circumstance all the more productively, a data warehouse for this specific reason was required (Darubianu et al., 2009).
      The assessment of the present-day tourism industry activity could be possibly prepared by method for factual pointers, for example, number of tourists’ entries (aggregate and territory of birthplace - for foreign tourists), spent in hotels and comparable institutions, the normal length of stays, and so forth. Also, analysis on tourists activities were made possible by the pointers, however without offering the likelihood of key strategic decisions make in tourism or for those zones with immediate or circuitous effect on tourism. For this reason the directors may have the likelihood of analysis from alternate points of view, for example, the type of areas visited by the tourist like mountains, coastline resorts spas, lodging type, the sort of tourism honed, the profile of tourists who lean toward specific destinations and so on. These tests are finished if permit correlations after some time for those pointers. For instance, data stored in a data warehouse permit in each minute to rapidly reply to inquiries of taking after sort: What was the number of tourist in their arrival for the 2 stars, 3 stars or 4 stars hotels in the mountain territory for the principal quarter of 2008 contrasted and the same time frame in 2007 (Darubianu et al., 2009).
      Therefore, the need for introduction and implementation of data warehousing in the Romanian Tourism sector is necessary so as to take redressing activities for any deviations in execution, administrators in the tourism business frequently require opportune investigation reports to gauge and screen the execution rate, increment and decline in traveler numbers, tourism evenings, rate of lodging occupations, visits to landmark places, and the aggregate income from the tourism area at the national level (Hendawi and El-Shishiny, 2016).
      The administrators in the tourism business additionally require auspicious analytical reports to help with settling on long haul decisions. It has been observed that the majority of the reporting and analytical time was spent on gathering information from the different frameworks before the analysis can be made. Directors need and need more data, however experts can give just insignificant data at a high cost within the specified time periods. Keeping in mind the end goal to give data to anticipating examples and patterns all the more convincingly and for breaking down an issue or a circumstance all the more effectively, a data warehouse for this specific intention was required (Hendawi and El-Shishiny, 2016).
      The data warehouse is not a product but an environment. It is an architectural construct of information systems that delivers current and historical decision support information that is difficult to get in conventional operational databases. Truth be told, the data warehouse is a foundation of the organization's capacity to do compelling data preparing, which, among, different things, can empower and offer the disclosure and investigation of essential tourism patterns and conditions that generally would have gone unnoticed. In standards, the data warehouse can meet instructive necessities of knowledge workers and can give vital business opportunities by permitting tourism specialists to access to corporate information while keeping up efforts to establish safety (Hendawi and El-Shishiny, 2016).
      CONCLUSION
      Lastly, so many existing systems based on the research made support the data warehouse concept which triggered the adoption of the conception in delivering the proposed system. The data warehouse is structured which enables the Structured Query Language (SQL) to run, giving room to generate a desired report for analytical purposes.
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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTTourism as being a great source of revenue in so many countries like Britain, Australia, Malaysia and many other countries. Seeing the viability of the sector in these countries where tourism as served as one of the life wire of the country economy, has stirred other country government to invest vastly in the sector. The tourism sector of the above named countries has served as a source of employment for the citizenry in various capacity.In reflection of the above statement, this thesis ... Continue reading---

         

      CHAPTER SEVEN - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER SEVEN: PRODUCT AND PRODUCT EVALUATION7.1    INTRODUCTIONThe expectation of every system developer is to see that the conceptual system is brought to a reality. Therefore, at this phase the system was fully developed. The evaluation of the proposed system was considered in more details in this chapter. This involves the difficulties encountered, the successes in line with the proposed objectives.7.2    EVALUATION OF PRODUCTThe evaluation of the product will be based on the objective ... Continue reading---

         

      LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Lists of TablesTable 5.1Table 5.2Table 5.3Table 5.4Table 5.5Table 5.8.1Table 5.8.2Table 5.8.3Table 5.8.4 ... Continue reading---

         

      LIST OF FIGURES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]List of figuresFigure 2.1Figure 3.1Figure 3.2Figure 3.3Figure 3.4Figure 3.6Figure 3.7Figure 3.8    Figure 3.8    Figure 3.9        Figure 5.1         Figure 5.2            Figure 5.3            Figure 5.4            Figure 5.5            Figure 5.6            Figure 5.7            Figure 5.8            Figure 6.5.2.1        Figure 6.5.2.2        Figure 6.5.2.5    Figure 6.5.2.6Figure 6.5.2.7    ... Continue reading---

         

      TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Table of contentsCHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION    1.1 INTRODUCTION    1.2 AIM.    1.3    OBJECTIVES   1.4    PROBLEM STATEMENT    1.5    SCOPE    CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW    2.1    INTRODUCTION    2.2    BACKGROUND STUDY OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA    2.3    THREE TIER DATA WAREHOUSE    2.3.1    BOTTOM TIER    2.3.2    MIDDLE TIER    2.3.3    TOP TIER.    2.4    THE NEEDS OF DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPT IN TOURISM    2.4.1 ... Continue reading---

         

      LIST OF ABRIVATIONS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]List of symbols/AbbreviationsS/N    ABBREVIATION    MEANINGS1    OLAP    Online Analytical Processing2    ROLAP    Relational online analytical processing3    MOLAP    multidimensional online analytical processing4    OLTP    online transaction processing5    MOT    Ministry of Tourism Malaysia6    SQL    Structured Query Language7    CSV    comma-separated values8    HTML    Hypertext Markup Language9    PDF    Portable document format ... Continue reading---

         

      CHAPTER EIGHT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER EIGHT: SUMMARY8.1    INTRODUCTIONAs usual, developing a system requires information gathering, findings which will eventually stand as the pillars for the proposed system development. Having find the required information, then it involves proper planning, analysis, scope, objective, aim and so on of the proposed system. The information gathering is based on the proposed project titled: Tourism Database Management System which will eventually resolve the challenges faced by the tourism ... Continue reading---

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION1.1    INTRODUCTIONTourism is quickly getting to be a standout amongst the most operative and efficient industries on the globe. It has extraordinary positive effects in countries by making work opportunities, by creating or developing infrastructure, and an extremely rich wellspring of wage and income (IPROJECT, 2016).Tourism enhances a country's infrastructural advancement. It makes for provision, for example, great communication and transport system, low-cost and a ... Continue reading---

         

      CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 8 ]The below figure 5 indicates the adding of department name column to the employee report using the graphical interface.Figure 3.6 (Docs.oracle.com, 2016)3.2.3    FLASH CHARTSApplications can be worked to utilize Adobe's Flash Player browser plug-in to show charts. There are a few sorts of Flash Charts bolstered including column, bar, pie, doughnut, scatter, line, candle, gauge, Gantt, and Flash Maps. Amid the creation procedure you can review the chose type and set most attribute for the ensu ... Continue reading---

         

      CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER FOUR: PROPOSED METHODOLOGY4.1    SYSTEM METHODOLOGYFor any system to be developed it must undergo some processes or stages to become a complete system. So system methodology is a scheme that is employed to structure, plan and control the way toward building up a functional system (Itinfo.am, 2016).There are numerous methodology used in the development of project, amongst others RAD and Agile methodology will be given more consideration in order for the developer to choose and justify ... Continue reading---

         

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      CHAPTER SIX - [ Total Page(s): 7 ]The above data warehouse was gotten after being through the ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) process. Four hundred and eighty five values where loaded into the fact table. The report met the proposed aim and objectives.Please refer to appendix G for more interfaces.Please refer to appendix B for more testing6.7    CONCLUSIONHaving gone through the testing phase, the basic functionality where met. ... Continue reading---

         

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