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Introduction The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has published that the tourism industry has experienced move growth and diversification to become one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors in the world for the past six decades. For many economies, tourism has become a key driver for socio-economic progress. It has generated an estimated gross output of US $3.5 trillion and the figure is expected to increase to US $7.0 trillion by 2011 (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2009). The upcoming of the tourism industry is bright as the World Tourism Organization (WTO) forecasts that an estimated one billions tourists will be traveling around the world by the yr 2010. The expansion and growth of tourism has contributed to the development of the developed countries as well as little developed counties. Moreover, the economic potential of tourism in less developed countries has been identified as an important contributing factor to global tourism growth (Pal mer 2002 Honey 1999 Ashley & Reo 1998 Mowforth & Munt 1998). Malaysia, tourism is the second largest contributor to the economy following(a) to the manufacturing sector. Malaysias efforts in developing and promoting its tourism products have produced impressive results. In year 2008, there were 22.05 million of tourist arrivals with total receipts of RM49.6 billion (USD13.4 billion). This gist represents an increase of 5.5% in tourist arrivals and an increase of 7.6% in revenue compared with year 2007. These increases are notable given difficulties and challenging environment with the global economic slowing and the increase of oil prices in year 2008. The first quarter of 2009 showed a positive growth of 2.2% in tourist arrivals compared to the cor... ...budget and cost selection.1.6.2minor contribution A good quality of website with DSS system can use so many different field and promotion. This study don not only solve the original problems faced by the home stay Malaysia but it is can also be a generalized to other similar applications . thus it may avail in overcoming the related problems faced by the other organizations in similar environment . Examples are such as in educational site, big industries, unified office, large banking and firm stay.This study is hoped to be served as a guidance or reference for the similar field of future study.Outline of the paper Chapter deuce discusses the previous studies of homestay program with DSS system and its solutions. It reviews on literature which is relevant in the area of general homestay program. the discussions on similar works in multidimensional site.