• 30 Jul

    Worldy Inspiration from Tourism Websites

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    The tourism industry can be a major source of revenue for a country and in some cases, it can even be its main source or revenue.

    That’s one of the main reasons why web design for this field plays such a vital role in promoting and attracting potential tourists from other parts of the world.

    In this post, we’re showcasing some great official tourism websites from various countries and cities around the world.

    Most of them feature stunning photography and use typography and color that are reminiscent of the particular city or country.

    Please let us know which ones are your favorites and feel free to suggest other great tourism websites.

    Arizona, USA


    Athens, Greece


    Argentina


    Australia


    Boston, Massachusetts, USA


    Brazil


    Britain


    Copenhagen, Denmark


    Dubai


    Egypt


    Germany

    '


    Hong Kong, China


    Iceland


    India


    Ireland


    Jamaica


    Korea


    Los Angeles, CA, USA


    Los Cabos, Mexico


    Maui, Hawaii, USA


    New York, USA


    Paris, France


    Peru


    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


    Puerto Rico, USA


    Sacramento, CA, USA


    South Africa


    The Bahamas


    Vancouver, BC Canada


    Las Vegas, NV, USA


    Compiled exclusively for WDD by Zoe Ajiboye.

    Which ones were your favorites? Know of any other great tourism websites? Please share below…

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    • http://blog.gabrielizalo.com/ Gabriel Porras

      What about the Colombia Tourism Site: http://www.colombia.travel/en/
      Thanks for this cool compilation!
      ; )=

    • http://traveldigital.wordpress.com/ Matthias Wobrock

      Nice one, thanks for this compilation!

      Some great ideas for tourism sites here. Who would have thought, I must say that my definite favourite in this list is Arizona: emotional, inviting, the cowboy theme gives it a unique identity, a big picture to suck you in, clean (a lot of these sites completely overload their homepages in my opinion) and the navigation is extremely intuitive (places to visit, things to do). Great usability! Bad job, Argentina, on the other hand – you look like a news portal rather than a travel site. I wonder what their bounce rate is ;) eso se puede hacer mejor!

    • http://designrnews.com DesignrNews

      Nice collection, thanks for share!

    • http://pogdesign.pl pog

      Nice collection and inspiration :)

      I did tourism site lately about dinosaurs park in Polnad – http://www.juraparkkrasiejow.pl

    • http://www.billbone.co.uk Bill

      Nice post. Bang on about the importance of web design in this field.

      Egypt’s might be my favourite.

      Don’t forget Visit Wales! http://www.visitwales.co.uk/

    • http://twitter.com/HiteshMehta Hitesh Mehta

      Amazing list.. thanks for the compilation!

    • http://www.digitalup.com.br Rafael Augusto

      I loved this post, I am a Brazilian designer who follow this blog on twitter, and each link access this blog surprised me more.

      Congratulations on the job.

    • Narco

      Arizona sucks!

    • http://www.piedicosta.com Filippo

      Thank you for these links!

      I would like to share this site too:

      http://www.visitmontaione.com

    • http://www.ill-fx-designs.com Allen

      Really nice looking websites especially with the amount of content that needs to be displayed, and a great niche to go after as a web designer.

    • http://www.jordanwalker.net Jordan Walker

      Excellent round up of global websites.

    • ManEatingFish

      Your visitBritain is very out of date and is not representative of the new site, especially as the screen you have is definitely the worse of the bunch

    • http://www.trebiano.it Studio Trebiano

      Nice list, but… shame on you ! ;-)

      How could you exclude Italy from your research ?!?
      So let me suggest the cool website of a 4 star hotel in Lerici, the Gulf Of Poets… just few km from Cinque Terre… ever hear about this wonderful place ?

      Check it out: http://www.hotelsanterenzo.it

      … and greetings from Italy !

    • http://buenasideaspy.com Vincen

      sorry but Puerto Rico, USA?

    • Thomas

      Nice list. You forgot Sweden. Check it out:
      http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/
      http://www.sweden.se/

    • http://www.skix.pl SkiX

      Fajna stronka ;)

      // nice website

    • http://www.lma.ca Adam

      Some great sites there!!! Check out Grenada (grenadagrenadines.com)

    • http://www.gregorpanek.de Greg

      Really Amazing Websites! It’s a good inspiration when i had to design a tourism Website. Thanks!

    • http://www.webdesignnet.co.uk Web Design in Maidstone

      :) ha, ha, vegas is the best… as always ;)

      thank you for sharing

    • http://www.nikoslianeris.gr nikoslianeris

      very nice and inspiring list!I liked all of them but I think that http://www.australia.com and the site for athens were the best! :)

    • Martin

      No Italy sites here? Check this out: http://www.italvilla.de

    • http://www.benstokesmarketing.co.uk Ben Stokes

      Thanks for that – we have a travel website project coming up soon. . . It is always helpful to look over existing design and see how they can be improved . . . Great list thank you very much.

    • http://www.mmcmsp.com Maria Manoela Porto

      wow that made me want to go on a plane!!! egypt one, the fullscreen from the slideshow is amazing! love the australia too. thanks for sharing!

    • http://molbal.co.cc Bálint Molnár

      My country’s pages are crap :(

    • http://www.mangostudio.eu vinnie morgan

      amazing, such inspiration for our new design and build. this has saved hours and hours of trailing the web! can’t believe only recently I came across web designer depot! keep up the good work man

    • http://astechsolutions.in Sanat Hegde

      Amazing list ..

      You guys should make up a regional list as well for some well known regions like the Konkan Coast and Goa in India which is known for its beaches

      Here’s a great site from showcasing this region
      http://konkanexplorer.com/

    • http://www.yoursingapore.com James

      And there a official video on YourSingapore launched
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RraMYAQz2c

    • Gacik
    • Alex

      Check out the Inspired By Iceland site … also quite inspirational, particularly the social media campaign around it http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/

    • http://gauravmishra.com Gaurav Mishra

      Wow Around the world! with in few minutes
      incredible post

    • http://lannendesigns.com Christina

      Yes, Puerto Rico is a territory/commonwealth of the USA. So is Guam and the US Virgin Islands.

    • http://www.caminossecretos.com Martina Maymo

      Thanks for the compilation!
      Jamaica’s is cool!
      Have you seen Caminos Secretos de America Latina ( http://www.caminossecretos.com )
      It”s form Latinamerica

    • http://www.martinholm.com Martin

      Great list!
      You forgot Norway though – check out http://www.visitnorway.com/

    • Karen Laksamana

      Here’s a good one:
      http://www.gohawaii.com/

      The design detail just FEELS like Hawaii. Nice looking, and very functional site… I also used it to plan my last vacay…

    • http://lahogueradelasbrujas.blogspot.com Edgar

      good post, other bautiful tourism site in spain

      http://www.manzanareselreal.org

      saludos!

    • http://www.visitjordan.com lina

      Great list!

      I would like to share the Jordan Tourism Board’s Official website

      http://www.visitjordan.com

      Enjoy :)

    • http://www.semicolon.com.mv Haab Naseem
    • http://www.brittanytourism.com Dodds

      http://www.brittanytourism.com new look is definitely worth a visit

    • http://www.pandorajourney.com SilviuFlorin

      Extremely beautiful website list. I think that travel is one of the most beautiful domains is what concerns web design…

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