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Fun Retreat Tanzania, located in the foothills of Kilimanjaro, offers a wide range of experiences for travelers looking to enjoy the beauty of Africa at its fullest. With executive rooms, cottages, and campsites, coupled with yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda health retreats, the Fun Retreat site is a combination of relaxation, adventure, and recreation for people of all ages.
Fun Retreat is a location where people from all over the world flock for adventure and relaxation. Tanzania, and Kilimanjaro in particular, is a vibrant spot for tourism. Being located in the foothills of Kilimanjaro offers Fun Retreat a unique advantage during all seasons. With wildlife sanctuaries and trekking spots around the property, Fun Retreat is a desired location for tourists around the world and often the first choice when it comes to booking a place to stay in remote Africa.
The Requirement
The website for Fun Retreat was a necessity. Located in remote Tanzania and in a destination visited only by tourists, it was important that the company had a digital presence. The visibility of the company was negligible at best and was not known even in the Tanzanian capital. An online presence would put the company among the few locations in the foothills of Kilimanjaro.
The website would require a lot more than a listing of the property itself. The website would require online booking facilities, images, and a full portfolio of all features of the property. The website would act as a platform for booking the property and also as an advertising platform. This required the website to be optimized for search engines and presentable, full of quality pictures.
The Requirements Were as Follows:
- Responsive Website: With more than 70% of the world population now accessing the internet on a mobile device, it was only practical to create a website that was responsive, mobile-friendly, and accessible on all devices of all sizes. This was a practical requirement and a de facto standard in today’s world.
- A Booking Platform: The website should allow visitors to book from the range of rooms available and confirm their bookings. There were six property types to choose from with different price ranges. The bookings should be confirmed on payment, and the availability of each room should be reflected correctly prior to booking.
- A Complete Listing of All Properties and Features: The health retreat facility should feature all the images with an enquiry form to provide more details. These facilities change in price based on the season.
- Booking Button Availability: A booking button should be available on all pages to promote more bookings and easy access to the booking pages.
- High-Quality Images: The use of high-quality images provided by the property should be widely used with limited text content. The focus should be on creating more orders and enquiries.
With the requirements in place, Megh Technologies started creating an outline and a complete site structure for the website. The website would have mostly static content that would not change. However, the main area where the app was focused was the booking sections. The bookings were updated by the property owner, and the availability of the rooms should be reflected while booking the property.
We created a wireframe of all the pages, including the pages for booking, after the site structure was created. Once approved, the UI/UX was designed in Figma with a full prototype of the booking system in place. The design was approved by Fun Retreat, and Megh Technologies started with creating the web app first and the design side by side.
The website uses .NET for the booking app, while the static section was created in HTML5 and CSS3 using the Bootstrap framework.
Once the design and coding were completed, the website was tested first on a local server and then on a test server, which was available to the client. The site was made live and deployed on the domain name funretreat.com after the client was satisfied with the results.
Website Type: Business Website Design and Development
Website: Funretreat.com
Location: Fun Retreat Resort, Moshono, Arusha 10367, Tanzania
Industry: Hotels & Resorts