Web Based Virtual Agent for Tourism Guide in Indonesia

The development of tourism sector in Indonesia is increasing rapidly, judging from the number of local and foreign tourists which is always growing every year. The rapid development of technology is also very influential in the development of this tourism sector, for example using the web to provide information on tourism in Indonesia, where only display text and images and also not interactive. So, an application system of virtual intelligent agent that connects human and computer is created. It makes an intelligent and interactive tour guide. This paper tries to present Smart Indonesian Tourism Agent (SITA) as visual tour guide. This is a web based information system that provides to access location of tourism in Indonesia. This application uses A.L.I.C.E server and Artificial Intelligence Modeling Language (AUvIL) interpreter. Hence, the information generated in the web can be displayed in text, visualization, image, and the chat box for questions.