G2Space is a comprehensive system which mainly integrates journal, photo gallery, my video and travel plan for travellers to record their experiences and share their personal opinions about “What to see”, “What to eat”, “What to think”, “What to feel” and “Where to stay” in trips.
1. Travel Journal
Travel Journal function in this system provides a blog-like application which is devoted to travellers’ personal records and their views about their trips. With the assistance of mobile version, travellers are expected to record or share anything they want at any time in any place.
2. Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery is used to share beautiful photos taken during travellers’ trips.When travellers upload their photos, certain tagging methods are provided for them to categorize their photos into different albums according to certain criteria for future usage by others. The tagging generally includes time, place, people, subject, theme, etc. Travellers are also expected to generate their own personalized or community-based characteristic tags.
3. My Video
Similar with ‘Photo Gallery’ function, ‘My Video” shares nice videos captured in trips. Tagging function is also provided and viewers can help adding tags.
4. My Travel Plan
This is one of the most important modules of the application. Users can:
• Create their own travel plan by simply indicate destination, start date, period and the theme they intend to achieve.
• According to the information provided above, the system will list other users’ plans which have the same destinations, either the past ones with reviews or the on-going ones. Thus users can consider about adjusting their own plans by analysing the old plans and reviews or just simply applying for joining other travellers and going together in companion. In addition, friends’ travel plans for similar time period will also be shown to users, which will give users a chance to reconsider whether they would like to take a trip with their friends though to a different destination.