A Flutter app and Laravel admin dashboard on MySQL combining Syrian destinations, a city guide, hotel booking, a handicraft store, articles, and visitor experiences.
An academic project to develop a digital tourism app for promoting domestic tourism in Syria, carried out by a team of students with technical assistance and support from Techno Enjaz. The app brings together in one platform the exploration of categorized tourist destinations, a city guide and travel tips, hotel and room booking, a digital store for Syrian handicraft products, a tourism blog and articles, and visitor experiences, with favorites and notifications.
The mobile app was built with Flutter and Dart, and the back end, APIs, and administration dashboard with Laravel following the MVC pattern, on a relational MySQL database. The system serves three main roles: tourist, artisan, and system administrator. The documented outcome is a working prototype with mobile interfaces and an admin dashboard, without operational data on economic impact or an actual increase in tourism.
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
| Project type | Digital tourism platform: mobile app and administration dashboard |
| Field | Smart tourism, mobile apps, e-commerce for handicrafts |
| Project status | Implemented prototype with preliminary functional testing |
| Techno Enjaz role | Technical support and assistance to the students during project development |
| Core technologies | Flutter / Dart, Laravel / PHP, MySQL, Eloquent ORM, REST API, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Apache server |
| Outputs | Tourist and artisan app, handicraft store with cart and orders, hotel booking, tourism content, comprehensive admin dashboard |
The project notes that tourism in Syria fell sharply after 2011 and has begun to recover: the Ministry of Tourism figures it cites put visitors in 2024 at about 4.55 million. Yet the local market lacks a comprehensive digital platform with up-to-date content covering the variety of archaeological, natural, and religious sites, and tools to help visitors make decisions, so they turn to scattered sources.
Local artisans also struggle to reach tourists. The project therefore aimed to build a single app combining a tourist guide, booking, educational content, visitor experiences, and a digital handicraft market, so users can plan their trip without relying on outside sources.
The project was carried out academically by the students, with technical assistance and support from Techno Enjaz during development. It is presented among the office's work as an example of its support for projects that build multi-party platforms with a Flutter app, a Laravel server, and a relational database.
The project's use-case diagram defines three roles:
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Tourist | Explore tourist sites, read articles and experiences, edit their profile, book hotels and activities, rate places, and share experiences |
| Artisan | Add, edit, and delete products in the digital market, follow purchase orders, read content, and comment on experiences |
| System administrator | Manage the dashboard, review articles before publication, manage sites and users, and oversee bookings and orders |
Private operations such as booking, purchasing, and managing products require prior login.
The final screens documented in the project include:
The interface is in Arabic by default.
| Section | What it manages |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | System overview |
| Users | Viewing and editing user information |
| Products | Product categories, products, and purchase orders with their details |
| Tourist sites | Site categories, sites with details and editing, and tourist activities |
| Hotels | Hotels, room types, rooms, and hotel bookings with their details |
| Content | Tourist-site experiences, and articles with details and editing |
The relational database is designed around the following tables:
| Area | Tables |
|---|---|
| Users | Users with account type and role, UserProfiles kept separate from login data, and UserPhoneNumbers for multiple numbers |
| Store | Products, hierarchical ProductCategories, ShoppingCartItems, ProductOrders, and ProductOrderItems |
| Tourism | TouristSites with coordinates, images, and video, SiteCategories, and TouristActivities with timing, duration, and participant count |
| Hotels | Hotels, HotelRoomTypes, HotelRooms with price, area, and availability, and HotelBookings with guest count and booking and payment status |
| Content and interaction | Articles with publication states, SiteExperiences, and Favorites, Ratings, and Comments using a polymorphic structure (target_type and target_id) |
Relationships rely on foreign keys with deliberate delete policies (cascade, restrict, or set null) according to data sensitivity, and timestamp fields in most tables.
The team verified the core functions, tested usability for the different user groups, and checked the flexibility of the dashboard and the accuracy of data handling. The project describes the results as preliminary, indicating a stable platform, smooth navigation between screens, and quick response in search, data entry, and editing.
The project provides no figures for response time or the number of test users, and no operational data to measure economic impact or an actual increase in tourism. Figures in its introduction about apps such as Visit Jordan, Visit Singapore, and Tiqets are results of those apps, not of this project.
According to the project's proposals:
If you are working on a tourism app or a digital platform that brings several services together and need technical help developing the idea or building a prototype, you can contact the Techno Enjaz office to discuss your project's requirements and the appropriate scope of support.
The app combines exploring tourist destinations with descriptions and visitor experiences, a city guide and travel tips, and hotel booking with invoices and booking details. It also includes a handicraft store with a shopping cart and orders, a tourism blog and articles, and favorites and notifications.
The mobile app was built with Flutter and Dart in a layered structure, and the back end, REST APIs, and admin dashboard with Laravel and PHP following MVC with Eloquent ORM. Data is stored in a central MySQL database on an Apache server, and the admin dashboard uses Bootstrap and JavaScript.
It serves three roles: tourists, who explore sites, book, rate, and share experiences; artisans, who add their products and follow purchase orders; and system administrators, who review articles before publication and manage sites, hotels, users, bookings, and orders from the dashboard.
A relational MySQL database with tables for users, their profiles, and phone numbers; the store's products, categories, cart, and orders; tourist sites with coordinates and activities; and hotels, room types, rooms, and bookings. Favorites, ratings, and comments use a polymorphic structure that applies to several entities.
No. There is no operational data measuring economic impact or an actual increase in tourism, and the system is an academic prototype not launched to the public. The project describes its test results as preliminary, indicating a stable platform and smooth navigation, and it does not yet include international payment gateways or multilingual interfaces.
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