Im new to drupal and havent done too much with it yet. I want to make a new travel related website so I thought that I would come in here and see what someone might charge me to build it. I will give a general outline of the needed features here and will go into furhter details at a later time.

Here is what I want:

It will be a travel website that Will focus on one country in particular for now. At a later date I will extend it to 5-6 countries but for the first year or so I will build it up around just this one country.

The website will offer information and also be a community type website. People can join the website and create personal journals about their travels in this country. They can map where they have been and where they would like to go. They can upload and share photos with other members. They can communicate with each other via a PM system, forums and chat room.

The site will be loaded with information. There will be a map of the country where the guests can click to certain areas. Each area will break down into different information such as: A map, general information about this area, photo gallery of this area, hotel/ guesthouse in this area, local businesses, forum topics about this area, and users who recently talked about this area on their personal journals.

The business directory will be a big aspect of the website. I will be going around and collecting payment to be listed in this directory. It should be sorted by area and also by type (resturant, hotel, dive shop, etc) Each business will have its own page with a complete description that I will fill out including things such as location, contact info, photos, and general informaiton. I will also have the option to personally review each business and offer them a rating. I will not review or rate all businesses but I will for some. I also want to be able to feature some businesses and give them a more prominent position in the directory. Guests should also be able to add a seperate review and rating of all businesses in the directory and add their comments, but they wont be shown unless I aprove them.

The main page will feture the newest travel articles, stories, product reviews, hotel reviews etc that have been added to the website. It should also preview blog entires that users have recently added, and maybe some random photos from users photo gallerys.

Guests should be able to easilly move around between sections of the site and moving from one are of the country should be very painless.

The website will have more information such as:
-detailed maps
-Upcomming events
-Holidays
-Travel Tips
-Travel Articles
-Stories
-Product reviews
-Polls
-Pull in rss news feeds
-trasportation timetables
-travel by actvity (beach, adventure, diving, etc)

I should be able to add everything about this country to the website

Eventually when the userbase is build up I am going to add the few surrounding places, so it must be easy for me to add and have expandability in mind.

Can someone please offer some insight as to how much this project might cost and how long it would take to develop? Im just an individual and not rich so if there are certain features that will increase the price a lot then please let me know so I can decide to if I want to keep them or ditch them for now to lower the price.

Thanks everyone.

JC

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Mamouri’s picture

Hi, Your contact form is disabled. go to my accounts > edit and then check "Personal contact form" so people can contact with you.

j0k3z’s picture

OK, I fixed it.

Im open to all information.

Thanks

Abilnet’s picture

Sounds interesting also to me... not wanting to hijack your thread, but does anyone have examples of that kind of travel sites made by Drupal?

povinho’s picture

I've a Travel Site made with Drupal! But it's in Portuguese for Portuguese Travel Places for now. I don't have all the features you need in your site... But most of them are my goal too... :) And I have to translate all of then :(

http://escapadelas.com

I hope you like it and take some ideas from it! If you like any of the features I can point what Module I use to each one of them.

Regards,

hkapoor227’s picture

Hey dude...Can you help me with list of module that you used to create the website...am looking for module to build similar website...

j0k3z’s picture

Can anyone else offer any services to me?

amino_ab’s picture

This is a big project and needs about 6 month of developement with 3 men team.
Amine

budda’s picture

Try posting on http://www.drupalancers.com/ to get some more attention to your project.

Sometimes posts on drupal.org get buried away quickly and people miss them.

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Drupal consultancy

mcentar’s picture

Hi jOk3z and povinho, I'd like to join with you two to support that project to build an professional tourist agency site.
Also i can give you some of my experience and as with anything more heads are more inteligent than one and also three people have more money to pay for it :-).
So if you are interested in this please respond.
Greetings to all!

Anonymous’s picture

Have a look at http://ourfernie.com. The site hasn't been launched yet so there's not much content, but you should get the idea. It intends to be a "destination portal", offering everything you need to plan your vacation in Fernie, B.C., We hope to add similar portals with different branding for other resorts in the Canadian Rockies.

The business directory is implemented as a framework, so for different business types you may display different information (type of cuisine for restaurants) or actions (online booking for hotels).

I intend to add Google maps and allow filtering on business type etc. I also want to add business reviews, but haven't worked out the best way to do this yet. I'm thinking with comments and the new VotingAPI. Accommodation management and booking has been fully implemented but has been disabled while I wait for my merchant account. I'm now trying to scrape together some money to fund integration with the GDS', which would let me offer flights and car hire from the same sources that Expedia and Travelocity use.

I would be very interested in talking with others interested in helping develop this.

Simon
http://ourrockies.com

Abilnet’s picture

That's cool Simon, I'd love to hear more about progress of the site... a case study, even a tiny one, would be most helpfull for people (like myself) having basically similar needs... Keep up the great work!

coupet’s picture

Excellent work. would be interested in booking and gds modules.

What about setting up a Group at http://groups.drupal.org/

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Darly

j0k3z’s picture

While Im trying to get this project started with a friend and focus around 1 country so Im not really looking to make it a professional tourist agencey website. I would like to get more input on what something like this might cost though...

budda’s picture

I might be able to assist in writing components of the site for you. The guys here may be able to work on the site fulltime, but it depends on your phase 1 requirements, and budget. Feel free to drop me an email (via contact tab) to discuss.

If you like to sponsor module development which could be released back in to the community I'm happy to do that too.

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Drupal consultancy

summit’s picture

Hi,

Any progress in this field.
Is there a drupal ecommerce module available for drupal 4.7?
I would like to use one for development aid in Nepal.
Thanks in advance.

Greetings,
Martijn

Snow Valley Consulting’s picture

Hey Everyone,
we have just released drupal's first online booking engine here - http://drupal.org/project/openresort

You can also see our full range of products and services for the tourism industry here - www.openresort.org

And our flagship product below

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Fernie Accommodation information and reservations

hwks’s picture

Hi there,
I'm interested in the Openresort solution is it still being worked on? I'm interested in working with parties who would like to build something like this.

Please let me know so we can work on some ideas.

Cheers!

garimarga’s picture

Hi Friends,

I am new here and interested to start a similar web site as soon as possible so looking for people who can help me together like designer and programmer.

If any one can expain here what are the major benefits to start this site in drupal, i will be thankful. You guys can also email me at garima.rga@gmail.com

Thanks

Kind Regards,

Garima Agrawal