The Innovation of Cre-Tourism Apps Using Google Map's API to Improve Teacher and Student Pedagogy

Abstract

Introduction: Tourism and other forms of travel would not exist without that differentiation. Therefore, the primary purposes of tourism are the preservation of nature, culture, and diversity. It takes interesting learning to preserve cultural tourism.

Objectives: This study's goal is to offer an analysis of the usage of cre-tourism applications as a novel teaching tool in tourism-related courses to inspire and increase the pedagogy closely related to the psychology of teachers and students.

Methods: The Research development using the waterfall and then the acceptance test with UTAUT2. The participant for this research is 454 respondents in 2021-middle of 2022 post-Covid-19. Respondents are students, teachers, and the general public with demographics including age, gender, place of residence, use of mobile phones in a day, and the number of mobile phones owned, using SEM as an analytical technique, and waterfall as a model to develop the application.

Results: The findings revealed that Hedonic Motivation (HM) and Effort Expectancy (EE) positively influenced Behavior Intention. The Conclusion is that the influence of behavior intention can increase student creativity in using the application and as a companion to learning freely.

Conclusions: The study’s implication and conclusion is that teachers can use the findings to make informed decisions regarding the creation of Android-based applications that are easy to use with GlideApps Google Map API features. Students who use applications are increasingly creative to try other features to try to improve their competence of using Android-based applications.