The travel and tourism industry is a great source of inspiration when it comes to web design. The main goal of any site in this industry is to entice visitors to travel. Imagery plays a huge part in this because any potential customer wants to see exactly where they are travelling to. Here are a few great examples of inspirational travel and tourism websites.
Australia’s Official Tourism Website
Joobili
Coastal Connection
Dara’s Garden
Ride Oregon
Visit Cascadia
Opal Cove
Orchid Bay Belize
Cottonseed Oil Tour
Design Hotels
Outdoor Italia
Isla de Monterrico
Alaska Zipline Adventures
Trip Kick
The Dublin City Pub Crawl
The Really Wild Travel Travel Company
Fall for Tennessee
TuristiÄka zajednica Grada Ivanić-Grada
Lake Crackenback
Utah Travel
Live Africa
Springtime in Tennessee
Jacksonville Landing
Maine
Viva Maria
Beaches
Summertime in Tennessee
Visit Norway
Le Nordik
The Red Rock Ranch
Edgewater
Tennessee Winter
thanks for this great post
Loving the design of Coastal Connection.
Those are some kick-butt design. Great post, Thanks for sharing
Great examples of travelo sites. Thanks for inspiration. I currently working for one travel project
Nice post
I like the Bonington Treks website
like the way it has a full-sized alternating background image
http://www.boningtontreks.com/
Great websites !
One other from France : http://www.premierpas-rando.com/
I like the design of noflights too
http://www.noflights.com/
I love the date interface design on that Joobli one. Bookmarking this one for reference for sure.
@Web Ideas – I also work on travel sites so will be updating this with anything I come across in the future along with anything my colleagues discover. We’ll then use it as a resource for future.
Thanks Tom. Some lovely design in there. Quite a range of content too though. It might be helpful to compare similar types of content. You might also like:
http://www.dopplr.com/ and my current fave http://www.tablethotels.co.uk/
Some very cool stuff, another one that I love is http://travelmob.com
Fantastic for planning group trips with friends.
Beautiful sites indeed! Would love to design a travel site one day
Cool sites. Very eye catching but easy to navigate as well… Nice to see when people can manage to do both!
This really makes me want to go to Australia!
Thanks alot Tom. A very nice list indeed.
wrote on his blog a nice roundup of american states tourism websites over 2 years and the changes (if any)that they went through.
US State Tourism Web Site Design: Two Years On (Part 1)
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/001479.php
and
US State Tourism Web Site Design: Two Years On (Part 2)
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/001516.php
Thanks again
This is only for London and is still in beta, but is very good showcase
http://www.londontown.com/hotelmapbeta/?day=2&monyear=11-2009&nights=1&adults=2&children=0&rooms=1
Some good links in the comments. Keep them coming!
great websites here. travel destinations websites are just great – here´s one from my hometown I also recommend:
http://www.soteropoli.com
I created a hotels catalogue website 2 months ago so during my research i came across most of these sites. Really nice job and very inspirational all of them. Have a look at my work:
http://hotelslimnisplastira.gr
nice to see tennessee on here so much!
@ Ivan : Oh my, the Londontown interactive hotel map is amazing! One wonders how much strategy and back-end work has gone into making this possible!
Gorgeous showcase, very inspiring as I’m currently working on a tourism site!
travelable article. some of them are fantastic
Love
http://www.spaces42.com
Amazing properties and great visual interface
Great list. It’s interesting that so many tourism offices feature here. I guess with government funds they are able to buy great designers.