ESCAPE TOURS

Wholesale Travel Services

This 800-page website was used by travel agents at commercial agencies throughout the country as a wholesale travel booking and information resource with which to educate themselves and their clients on travel destinations. From the site, our travel agent partners could input their ARC identifier code number and use the Escape Tours database to find lower wholesale travel discounts and vacation packages with which to offer their clients, and then secure those deals with Escape Tours representatives. Each of the cities indicated on the maps led to detailed pages covering historical & cultural attractions, eco-travel opportunities, restaurant, adventure excursions, nightlife, and other local entertainments, sporting venues, as well as multiple hotel properties and accompanying descriptions of their amenities, location, and pricing. Dynamic cruise, hotel, tour, and airline pricing was also available on this web site on ASP pages that referenced the in-house MySQL Database via the MyODBC interface with Microsoft IIS. On an average of 90,000 monthly impressions, the design alterations executed by my team yielded a 525% increase in traffic with a 78% conversion rate immediately following the upgrade, and with no additional collateral advertising, and an 800% increase overall during my time with the company.

1999 - Best Travel Site Award Winner from PlanetRider Travel Directory
(For "Information Content" and "Ease-of-Use". Overall, rated in the top 3% of 250,000 web sites reviewed.)

1999 - Continental Airlines #1 Wholesaler

ADDITIONAL SCREENGRABS

About Us
Costa Rica Central Pacific Hotel Pricing
Booking Form
Escape Tours Site - Prior to Redesign

DESIGN SOFTWARE USED
Frontpage
Photoshop
Flash
Premiere