Information and communication technologies, the growing human needs will push the information quickly and accurately. As in the field of tourism, fast and accurate information is needed in order to facilitate the tourists to reach tourist destinations that will be targeted. Promotion and marketing of tourist attraction which was conducted by the Department of culture and tourism of the city of Palembang was a print media such as mass media, booklets with tour maps are dynamic but not this

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... is still not enough to convey the information accurately to tour domestic and foreign tourists. Therefore, through the design and development of information system of tourism based android mobile is able to facilitate tourists in finding existing tourist information in the city of Palembang. This system utilizes the internet and technology Location Based Service (LBS) using the GPS (Global Positioning System) which was built on the Android platform. As for the system development methods used is RUP (Rational Unified Proces) using the concept of the Unified Modelling Language (UML), while the diagram is the Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class diagrams. Information in the form of tourist maps are displayed in the Library of Google Maps Apis. The result of the final project of tourism information system Architecture-based Android Mobile with the approach of Beriorentasi objects on the Department of culture and tourism of the city of Palembang is capable of displaying travel information, tourism as well as the supporting means of tourist sites in the form of a dynamic tourism maps.