🌴 Travel Itinerary - FastAPI Project

This is a backend system for managing travel itineraries using FastAPI and SQLAlchemy, featuring RESTful APIs to create and view itineraries and an MCP server to recommend itineraries based on trip duration.

🚀 Live Demo

🌐 Live URL: https://travel-itinerary-fdwd.onrender.com/docs

🧰 Tech Stack

• Python 3.11+
• FastAPI
• SQLAlchemy
• SQLite (for development; switchable to PostgreSQL)
• Uvicorn
• Render (for deployment)
• Pydantic (for input validation)

📦 Features

• Create new itineraries with full day-wise breakdown
• View all stored itineraries
• MCP (Minimum Cost Path) server for recommending itineraries based on nights
• Pre-seeded data for Phuket and Krabi, Thailand
• Interactive Swagger UI for testing endpoints

📁 Folder Structure

travel-itinerary-backend/
│
├── app/                        # Main application package
│   ├── __init__.py            # Makes the app a Python package
│   ├── main.py                # Entry point of FastAPI app
│   ├── models.py              # SQLAlchemy models
│   ├── database.py            # DB connection setup
│   ├── schemas.py             # Pydantic schemas for validation
│   ├── seed_data.py           # Predefined itinerary data
│   └── routes/                # API route definitions
│       ├── itineraries.py       # CRUD routes for itineraries
│       
├── requirements.txt           # Project dependencies
├── README.md                  # Project documentation
├── .gitignore                 # Files to ignore in Git
└── start.sh                   # (Optional) Start script for deployment

⚙️ Features

• ✅ Create travel itineraries with hotel, transfer, and excursion data
• ✅ Get recommended itineraries for 2 to 8-night durations
• ✅ Modular code with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and SQLite
• ✅ Auto-generated Swagger and ReDoc API docs
• ✅ Deployed live using Render

🚀 Getting Started

📦 1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/ThasnimaShereef/Travel-Itinerary.git
cd Travel-Itinerary

🧪 2. Create a Virtual Environment

python -m venv venv
# For Windows:
venv\Scripts\activate
# For macOS/Linux:
source venv/bin/activate

📥 3. Install Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

▶️ 4. Run the Development Server

uvicorn app.main:app --reload

Now visit: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs for the Swagger UI.

🧪 API Endpoints

📸 Screenshots

📘 Swagger UI

🔍 Itinerary JSON Response for GET /itenararies - All Itenararies

🔍 Itinerary JSON Response for GET /itenararies/{id} - Itenarary based on id

🔍 Itinerary JSON Response for POST /itenararies - Creating a new itenarary

🔍 Itinerary JSON Response for GET /recommendations{duration} - Recommendation of itenararies based on the duration

🌍 Deployment on Render

🔁 1. Push to GitHub

git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/ThasnimaShereef/Travel-Itinerary.git
git add .
git commit -m "Initial backend commit"
git push -u origin main --force

🚀 2. Deploy via Render

• Go to https://render.com
• Create a New Web Service
• Connect your GitHub repo
• Set the Build Command to:

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Set the Start Command to:

  uvicorn app.main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 10000
  

• Set Port to 10000
• ✅ Deploy and wait for the live link!