I am amazed how many talented people are involved in the travel industry. I am no web designer, but today I scoured the internet to find my ten favourite (best) travel website designs. Please leave a review for me on StumbleUpon.
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Robert | 8 February, 2008 at 4:25 am
What about http://www.passengersonly.com altough its a retail store, I think its way cooler looking than those…..
Claude | 8 February, 2008 at 8:07 am
I love Gap Adventures, a outdoor adventure travel tour operator in Canada
Loot at :
best regards
Claude
Richard | 8 February, 2008 at 11:08 am
Not sure I’d agree with all those choices.
Considering the amount of money they spent on it, the Travel Mail lacks imagination and is littered with distracting adverts.
Go Girl has a number of usability issues, such as long thin columns of grouped text.
Bales Worldwide stands out for me. Good execution, great use of colour and clear grouping of elements makes it easy to understand and explore - it empathises with the customer.
I also like http://www.leger.co.uk - take a look!
Cheers,
Richard.
Sam Daams | 8 February, 2008 at 11:34 am
Hmm, don’t agree with a few of your choices there, but I like the tvtrip, extravigator, silverjet and Bales designs. I also think these are the most confidence inspiring, user oriented designs. Makes me trust the companies in other words. The ocean village holidays one makes me seriously cringe!
Think my fav is the silverjet one. Beautiful and elegant.
XTourist | 8 February, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Well, it’s nice to have great design but the content is the king. If you have great design with bad content what’s the point?
Darren Cronian | 8 February, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Robert, nice design, and easy to navigate.
Claude, looks ok, but wheres the brand, I didnt know it was Gap Adventures until the flash popped up
Richard, sorry but I don’t like that design, it’s down to personal choice I suppose.
Sam, Yep, Silverjet wins it for me too.
xtourist, I agree, but I’ve seen some sites that are horribly designed and have put me off going back again, no matter how useful the content may have been.
foxnomad | 8 February, 2008 at 2:14 pm
SilverJet for me too.
Garri | 8 February, 2008 at 4:20 pm
From your selection it would be a toss up for me between:
* Go Girlfriend - for the nice use of vector graphics, which I’m a sucker for.
Plus they use pink which other than the cliche of ‘pink being for girls’, it’s a wise move because it’s the colour of love, representing kindness and the absence of evil. People identified with pink are usually sociable, communicative and imaginative.
* Extravigator - because of their use of open-source technology. It’s an intelligent and imaginative use of the free forum script http://www.getvanilla.com
* Holiday Pad - because it has a pink logo! And also because it’s a creative use of blogging technology.
Oops sorry, Holiday Pad isn’t on the list. I must crack on with that redesign 
Jack from eyeflare.com | 8 February, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I like the Bales Worldwide one best, really classy.
Darren Cronian | 8 February, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Yep Garri, Go Girlfriend is my favourite blog design. I like the vector graphics. Watch out for a new Travel Rants header soon. Incorporating Mr Rants of course!!
Darren Cronian | 9 February, 2008 at 1:13 pm
It’s amazing how many numpties add a link to a site, and the domain matches their email address, therefore their own site.
Please do not add your own site, it just gets removed.
Kevin May | 11 February, 2008 at 4:53 pm
SilverJet won a Travolution Award in 2007 for Best Airline Website.
http://www.travolution.co.uk/Articles/2007/04/25/853/Travolution+Awards+2007+-+Winners.html
Toby Sawday | 25 February, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Wow. The overall quality of design in all of these examples is enviable! I particularly like the growing use of the blogging platform by sites like Extravigator and Go Girl - you see more and more clever mashups of free platforms such as Wordpress now, but not many so beautifully executed.
Bales’ site is a fine example of really clean, crisp design (something I could do with emulating!).
On a purely aesthetic note, I find Travel Mail a bit old school and clunky.
Loads of great stuff in there. Thanks for the posting!
Toby
(Alastair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay)
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