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@article{203719,
        author = {Prachi Makarand Nilekar and Prathamesh Walekar and Shravay Gaikwad and Tejasvi Tikoo and Shravani Patil},
        title = {Wild Routes: A Community-Centric Adventure Tourism Platform for Travel Storytelling and Community Interaction},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {59-65},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=203719},
        abstract = {Adventure tourism is an area that is growing as more tourists seek unique experiences and explore new destinations. Although many online platforms allow users to share content, most focus on short-form images rather than structured storytelling. This paper introduces Wild Routes, a full-stack community-centric adventure tourism web application built on React 18 and Tailwind CSS (frontend), Spring Boot (backend), and MySQL (persistence). The paper emphasises implementation: the six-stage GPX/KML parsing pipeline, JWT-based authentication middleware stack, Map View component architecture, content-based recommendation engine, and database schema design. Load-testing across 120 concurrent users at 1,000 iterations per endpoint shows mean read latencies of 29 38ms and write latencies of 64 74ms, confirming a production-ready system. Three identified research gaps narrative documentation limitations, absence of community-based trust verification, and lack of objective difficulty assessment are addressed by architectural and algorithmic choices detailed herein.},
        keywords = {adventure tourism full stack web application Spring Boot React GPX/KML pipeline content-based recommendation JWT authentication MySQL schema design load testing},
        month = {June},
        }