# Travel & Hospitality

> 60+ travel and hospitality brands, each designed and built for its own operator, on WordPress and WooCommerce shaped to what they sell.

Source: https://lastdoorsolutions.com/industries/travel

## Sixty Brands, Sixty Designs

Each website is made for the travel company, its trips, and its customers. Some use ACF blocks, some use full site editing, and others use WordPress and WooCommerce with custom features.

We use the same process and booking tools across projects, but the design is always different. We understand how each company works, build the right booking system, and test it with real trips and seasons.

## What Makes Travel Sites Different

Travel websites exist to take bookings. They handle departure dates, seasonal prices, payments, and trip availability. The CMS must also manage custom post types for trips, destinations, itineraries, departures, and team members.

Managing content across 60+ sites is also a systems problem. Each brand has its own voice, audience, and SEO plan. We use brand voice guides, content calendars, and a team that can create content at scale while keeping each brand consistent.

## What We Build

### TravelBase, for solo guides and new operators

TravelBase is our ready-made travel website for solo guides and new travel companies. They need to start selling trips in weeks, not spend months building a brand.

TravelBase gives them a ready-to-use travel website from day one. It includes trips, destinations, itineraries, departures, and team content types, along with booking, payment, search, and departure management. Some sites in this portfolio use TravelBase. The rest are designed and built from scratch.

### Custom Payment Gateway
Custom Himalayan Bank and NABIL Bank payment gateways integrated with WooCommerce for direct booking and payment processing. Built specifically for the Nepal travel market where international payment gateway options are limited.

### Departure Date Manager
A custom WordPress plugin for managing trip departure dates, seasonal availability, and variable pricing. Travel operators set departure dates, capacity limits, and per-departure pricing. The frontend displays availability calendars and pricing tables automatically.

### Advanced Trip Filter
A custom search and filter plugin that lets visitors search trips by destination, duration, difficulty level, altitude, and price. Filters update in real time. The same plugin runs across all 60+ sites with consistent behavior and per-site configuration.

### Content Operations

We maintain 30+ documented brand voice profiles across our websites. Each site produces 7,500 to 20,000 words of content per month. We use programmatic SEO to create content at scale. We use LLM SEO, search optimization for large language models (LLMs), to improve visibility in AI search results.

### Next.js Migration
We are migrating select properties from WordPress to Next.js to make pages load faster. The migration keeps each page's search ranking, booking functions, and content workflows.

## Our Experience

- **60+ travel and hospitality websites**, each designed and built for that operator
- **4 custom WordPress plugins** (payment gateway, trip filter, departure manager, site search)
- **30+ documented brand voice profiles** maintained across the portfolio
- **Custom payment gateways** for Himalayan Bank and NABIL Bank integrated with WooCommerce
- **Next.js migrations** in progress for select properties
- **Programmatic SEO and LLM SEO** across the full portfolio

The portfolio spans adventure trekking, high-altitude expeditions, wildlife safaris, river rafting, hotels and hospitality, film production location services, wellness and spiritual travel, and leadership conferences.

40 of them are listed further down this page, each linked to the live site.

## Compliance and Regulatory

| Requirement | How We Handle It |
|-------------|-----------------|
| **Payment security** | PCI-compliant payment processing through custom gateway integration. Transaction data encrypted in transit and at rest. |
| **Booking accuracy** | Real-time departure availability. Capacity limits enforced at the platform level. No overbooking. |
| **Content consistency** | Documented brand voice profiles per site. Editorial review workflows. Style guides enforced across content team. |
| **SEO compliance** | Schema markup for trips, destinations, and reviews. Structured data validated across all properties. |
| **Multi-site security** | We run the portfolio, so an advisory is answered across all of it on the same day rather than site by site as each operator notices. No site left on an outdated version. |

## Tech Stack

| Layer | Technology |
|-------|-----------|
| **CMS** | WordPress and WooCommerce, per build; TravelBase on the product sites |
| **Plugins** | Custom: Himalayan Bank and NABIL Bank payment gateways, trip filter, departure date manager, site search |
| **Frontend** | PHP, SCSS, responsive design |
| **Next.js** | Next.js (migration in progress for select properties) |
| **Content** | 30+ brand voice documents, content calendars, SEO research per site |
| **SEO** | Programmatic SEO, LLM SEO optimization, traditional organic |
| **Package Management** | Composer |

## Every logo links to a live site


- [Discovery World Trekking](https://discoveryworldtrekking.com): Full-service adventure travel — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Wild Yak Expeditions](https://wildyakexpeditions.com): High-altitude expeditions — Expedition & climbing, Trekking
- [Wild Yak Journeys](https://wildyakjourneys.com): Expedition journeys — Expedition & climbing, Tours & travel
- [Highland Expeditions](https://highlandexpeditions.com): High-altitude expeditions — Expedition & climbing, Trekking
- [Nepal Alternative Treks](https://nepalalternativetreks.com): Off-the-beaten-path treks — Trekking
- [Trekkers Paradise Nepal](https://trekkersparadisenepal.com): General trekking — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Himalay Trip](https://himalayatrip.com): Himalaya travel — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Hillary Step Treks](https://hillarysteptreks.com): Named after the Hillary Step — Expedition & climbing, Trekking
- [Dream Himalaya Adventures](https://dreamhimalayaadventures.com): Adventure travel — Expedition & climbing, Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Alpine Wonder Treks](https://alpinewondertreks.com): Alpine trekking — Trekking
- [Nepal Base Camp Treks](https://nepalbasecamptreks.com): Base camp treks — Trekking, Hiking & day tours, Tours & travel
- [Himalaya Guide Nepal](https://himalayaguidenepal.com): Guided trekking — Trekking
- [Life Himalaya Trekking](https://lifehimalayatrekking.com): Himalaya treks — Expedition & climbing, Trekking
- [Ace the Himalaya](https://acethehimalaya.com): Award-winning adventure travel — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Kora Adventure](https://koraadventure.com): Cultural trekking — Cultural & heritage, Trekking, Tours & travel
- [My Everest Trip](https://myeveresttrip.com): Everest region specialist — Expedition & climbing, Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Core Treks](https://coretreks.com): Core Nepal experiences — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Snow View Trek](https://snowviewtrek.com): Snow and mountain treks — Trekking
- [HC Treks](https://hctreks.com): Himalayan Challenge Treks — Trekking
- [Ascend Hikes](https://ascendhikes.com): Hiking specialist — Hiking & day tours
- [Himalayan 360](https://himalayan360.com): 360-degree Nepal experience — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Nepal Hiking Experts](https://nepalhikingexperts.com): Hiking specialist — Trekking, Hiking & day tours
- [Glorious Himalaya](https://glorioushimalaya.com): Himalaya tours — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Naata Travels](https://naatatravels.com): Travel & adventures — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Yeti Hikes](https://yetihikes.com): Modern hiking platform — Expedition & climbing, Trekking, Hiking & day tours, Tours & travel
- [Vacation Trekking](https://vacationtrekking.com): Vacation treks — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Hike to Everest](https://hiketoeverest.com): Everest specialist — Trekking, Hiking & day tours
- [Peace Nepal Treks](https://peacenepaltreks.com): Peaceful trekking — Expedition & climbing, Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Mega Adventures International](https://megaadventuresintl.com): International adventures — Tours & travel
- [Travel Max Guide](https://travelmaxguide.com): Travel guide platform — Tours & travel
- [Tiger Encounter](https://tigerencounter.com): Wildlife safari, tiger conservation — Wildlife & safari
- [Nepal River Runner](https://nepalriverrunner.com): Rafting & river adventures (B2B + B2C) — Rafting & rivers
- [Raft Rek Nepal](https://raftreknepal.com): Rafting specialist — Rafting & rivers, Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Wild Yak Gear](https://wildyakgear.com): Expedition gear (e-commerce) — Gear & retail, Expedition & climbing
- [Mountain Kick](https://mountainkick.com): Adventure events — Trekking
- [Himalayan Leaders](https://himalayanleaders.com): Leadership events — Trekking, Tours & travel
- [Weaverville Hotel](https://weavervillehotel.com): US hotel property — Hospitality
- [Hotel Jal Mahal](https://www.jalmahalpokhara.com): Pokhara hotel, pools and gardens — Hospitality
- [Nature Excursion](https://natureexcursion.com): Nepal trekking agency — Trekking
- [Film in Nepal](https://filminnepal.com): Film production location services — Film & production
## What's inside TravelBase

```
TravelBase (WordPress Boilerplate)
├── Custom Post Types
│   ├── Trips (itinerary, difficulty, altitude, duration, price)
│   ├── Destinations (regions, countries, maps)
│   ├── Departures (dates, availability, seasonal pricing)
│   ├── Team Members (guides, leaders)
│   └── Reviews & Testimonials
│
├── Custom Plugins
│   ├── HBL Payment Gateway (Himalayan Bank + WooCommerce)
│   ├── NABIL Bank Payment Gateway (WooCommerce)
│   ├── Departure Date Manager (availability, pricing, seasons)
│   ├── Trip Filter (search by destination, duration, difficulty, price)
│   └── Site search (tuned for trip and destination content)
│
├── SEO Infrastructure
│   ├── Rank Math SEO (on-page)
│   ├── Google Site Kit (analytics)
│   ├── Schema markup (trip, review, FAQ)
│   └── Programmatic SEO (destination pages at scale)
│
├── Commerce
│   ├── WooCommerce (booking engine)
│   ├── Himalayan Bank and NABIL Bank payment gateways
│   ├── YITH Wishlist (trip saving)
│   └── Fluent Forms and Gravity Forms (inquiry, booking forms)
│
└── Content Operations
    ├── 30+ brand voice profiles (one per site, version controlled)
    ├── 7,500-20,000 words/month/site
    ├── Stock photography procurement
    └── One team of 24+ across SEO, content and design
```

Every piece of that exists because an operator needed it. If you want it for your business, the questionnaire asks properly: what you sell, who buys it, where the business is today and what you already hold. It takes a few minutes, and it means our first reply is about your business with a plan in it, rather than a list of questions.

[Start a travel project](/start-a-travel-project)

## Every site is a content operation

Our content and SEO team manages:

- **30+ distinct brand voices:** each site has its own tone, audience and writing style, written down and version controlled in that brand's own hub
- **7,500 to 20,000 words per site per month:** trip descriptions, destination guides, blog posts, SEO content
- **Dedicated SEO specialists:** on-page optimization, keyword research, backlink building, technical SEO
- **LLM SEO:** optimizing content for AI search (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity) alongside traditional Google SEO
- **Programmatic SEO:** auto-generated destination and category pages at scale
- **Stock photography:** 10 to 25 stock images bought per site per month
- **Social media management:** Canva-based social content for select sites
- **A/B testing:** conversion optimization on key booking flows

## Launch is the start of it, not the end

A travel operator's website is their storefront in a seasonal business. A build that ends at launch leaves them alone with it in the month the bookings actually arrive, so the work does not end there.

### We Keep It Running

We test plugin and core updates before and after applying them. We also test PHP updates to make sure the site still works. When a page gets slow, we check the cache, database, and other files.

A travel site that goes down in the busy season loses bookings. We use our own security tools instead of a regular plugin. They connect through SSH and WP-CLI, so nothing is added to the site. We run 13 security checks for files, malware, plugins, user sessions, cron jobs, file permissions, and server settings.

If a security problem happens, we follow five steps: check, contain, clean, secure, and verify.

[How the maintenance works](/services/wordpress-support)

### We Answer the Phone

When a travel company has a booking form that stops taking payments during the busy season, they need a person who can help right away.

That is why we build and manage our own plugins. We can fix booking problems in our own code without waiting for another company. When there is a security issue, we check and update every site we manage on the same day.

### We Help Them Grow

The content work above is the organic side, but it is only half of the work. We also use paid search and social ads, improve visibility in AI search, and work to get trips cited when people ask an AI where to trek.

We also use email to follow up with people who do not book the first time. We manage reviews and improve the local listings travelers check before trusting a company they do not know.

[The growth work in full](/services/digital-marketing)

## What makes this different

Any agency can build a travel website. What is hard is running sixty of them without
either drowning in maintenance or shipping the same site sixty times.

We answered the first with our own plugins and our own way of running a portfolio, so a
booking fault is fixed in the code we own and an advisory is answered across every site the
same day. We refused to answer the second one by repeating ourselves. Every site is designed
for the operator whose name is on it, and we have never moved a theme from one to another.
Sixty sites that looked alike would be worth less to every one of them.