Inspiration
Making an itinerary for a trip or vacation can take an extensive amount of time, and the alternative of paying someone else to create one for you can be costly. When considering possible ideas for what we could create, we realized that automating the process of making a travel itinerary could be greatly useful and could reduce the stress of planning for a vacation, which is meant to alleviate stress. This is why we created MyTinerary, an automated itinerary generator. Vacationers can spend less time worrying about making their itinerary and more time enjoying their trip, in addition to discovering the best local activities and sites in the community they are in.
What it does
MyTinerary contains a form that allows a user to input the preferences in an array of different categories, some including budget level, travel radius, and food preferences.
How we built it
We used a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create and style web pages and integrate the form the user filled out with our itinerary generation.
Challenges we ran into
We encountered several challenges during the duration of working on this project. One early challenge we overcame was deciding on implementation after we had finalized our project idea. We considered various different implementation methods, including utilizing Swift to create an iOS app and using Python and Flask to create a web application. Both of these proposed ideas came with their own unique problems, and we struggled for a bit on how to proceed. After after discussing the experiences of both mentors and members of other teams in using these services and creating their own applications, we decided that using JavaScript, HTML and CSS would be a suitable solution for implementing MyTinerary.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of learning enough of three tools that we had never used before today to accomplish our goal.
What's next for Untitled
Currently, MyTinerary has a long way to go until it could be considered "done". If we develop our skills in the tools used, we could add more detail and improve the personalization of our generated itinerary. We could also implement a database of a wider range of places to improve the quality of itineraries. These suggestions are just a small fraction of the potential that MyTinerary has to help provide the best vacation experiences to users.
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