Ecstatic Explorers
A travel catalogue you can browse the way people actually daydream.
The problem
Travel buyers arrive with one of three starting points — a place, a budget, or a mood — and most operator sites only support the first. The rest bounce to a competitor with a filter.
The solution
Three parallel routes into the same catalogue: explore by location, most popular packages with the deal stated on the card, and holidays by theme. Every card carries duration, route and code, so comparison happens on the page instead of in an enquiry thread.
The result
A browsable catalogue with the operator's 4.9★ rating across 612 Google reviews placed where hesitation happens, and a live Instagram feed as continuous proof the trips are real.
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Overview
Ecstatic Explorers is a travel operator running trips across North Bengal, Kashmir, Himachal, Ladakh, Rajasthan, Goa, Kerala and the North East. The site carries the full catalogue: destinations, packages, themed holidays, reviews and enquiries.
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Context
Travel is bought on desire and confirmed on trust, in that order. The imagery has to do the first job and the proof has to do the second, and neither can be allowed to get in the other's way.
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Challenge
The catalogue is large and heterogeneous. Someone wanting a beach holiday, someone with a fixed budget and someone set on Ladakh are all valid visitors, and forcing all three down a single destination menu loses two of them.
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Approach
Three routes into the same inventory, all visible without navigating: by location, by popular package with the deal stated on the card, and by theme. Package cards carry duration, route and code, so a visitor can compare without an enquiry. The Google rating and review count sit next to the browsing, not in a testimonials section at the bottom, and a live Instagram feed keeps proving the trips are real.
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What I did
- 01Information architecture across destinations, packages and themes
- 02Visual design and an imagery-forward layout system
- 03Card patterns carrying duration, route and pricing consistently
- 04Responsive front-end implementation
- 05Enquiry routes and social-proof placement
Live
See it working.
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Geethika Ensconsia