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Technology and marketing for tourism and hospitality

Hotels, tour operators, destination marketing organisations, restaurants and attractions run on booking windows and busy seasons. OlDevs builds the sites, apps, integrations and campaigns that hold up when the season peaks.

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Tourism & Hospitality, in short

OlDevs is a full-stack technology studio in Vancouver, British Columbia that builds websites, booking flows, mobile apps and marketing programmes for hotels, tour operators, destination marketing organisations, restaurants and attractions.The work usually covers booking engine and channel integrations, multilingual and seasonal content, review and reputation programmes, group and event enquiry handling, and campaigns timed to real booking windows. One accountable team ships a working demo every week, and clients own all code, designs, accounts and IP. Request a quote to scope the next season.

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Tourism & Hospitality

Where tourism and hospitality projects get difficult

The problems we are asked to solve most often — and how.

01

Bookings live in someone else's system

Availability, rates and restrictions usually sit in a property management system, a central reservation system or a channel manager. The website is the last place to hear about a change, and guests notice the mismatch before you do.

PMS and CRS · Channel manager · Rate parity

02

Demand arrives in waves

Traffic and enquiries do not arrive evenly. A long weekend, a festival, a cruise call or one popular post can multiply demand in a day, then the shoulder season goes quiet and the same pages have to sell a different thing.

Seasonality · Traffic spikes · Capacity

03

Guests arrive in several languages

People book in French, in English and often in a third language, and the content that matters most is the content that changes: seasonal hours, closures, shuttle times and menus. Translations drift, and the stale version is the one that gets read.

Multilingual · Bilingual EN/FR · Content operations

04

Reviews are the shop window

Reviews carry more weight than anything you write about yourself. Asking for them at the right moment, routing difficult ones to a real person, and keeping responses consistent across several platforms is operational work, not a plugin.

Reputation · Review workflow · Lifecycle

05

Group and event enquiries are not bookings

Weddings, conferences, charters and group tours need a proper enquiry form, a qualified handoff to a sales inbox, a record of who followed up and when, and a way to see which enquiries turned into signed business.

Group enquiries · Sales handoff · CRM

06

The booking window outlasts the tracking

People research on a phone, compare on an online travel agency, then book weeks later on a laptop. Without clean event tracking and consent handling, the direct channel looks weaker than it is and budget drifts to whoever measures loudest.

Attribution · Consent · Analytics

Process

How a tourism and hospitality project runs

  1. Discovery

    We review your booking path, reservation stack, seasonal calendar, languages and enquiry handling, and agree what a good season looks like in plain terms.

  2. Blueprint

    A written plan covering the site or app structure, integration points, content and translation workflow, tracking and consent, and the release order.

  3. Build with weekly demos

    One accountable team builds in the open. Every week you see working software on real data, not a status report, and you can redirect while it is still cheap.

  4. Launch before the rush

    Integration testing against live availability, accessibility and performance checks, load testing for peak days, content and translations signed off, then a staged release.

  5. Measure and improve in season

    Tracking is verified against real bookings, campaigns are adjusted to the booking window, and we plan the next round of work for the shoulder season.

How we work

How we work with tourism and hospitality teams

01

Start with the booking path

Before design, we walk the route a guest takes from first search to confirmation email and count every step, form field and redirect. That path sets the priorities for the rest of the project.

02

Integrate rather than replace

Your reservation system, channel manager, point of sale and CRM usually stay. We map what each one can expose, then build the site, app or enquiry flow to work with those limits instead of fighting them.

03

Build for the peak, not the average

Pages are cached and tested against the traffic a long weekend or a festival brings, with the booking step protected. Quiet weeks are easy. We size the work for the busy ones.

04

Multilingual content operations teams can keep up

Bilingual English and French as standard, with a clear structure for what gets translated, who approves it, and how seasonal details stay accurate in every language.

05

Make every enquiry traceable

Group, wedding, conference and charter enquiries land in a real workflow with an owner, a follow-up record and reporting, so the sales side of the business is visible rather than buried in an inbox.

06

Campaigns timed to booking windows

Search, paid social and lifecycle work run against how far ahead your guests actually book, with tracking and consent set up properly so direct performance is measured fairly.

1 business day

Reply to every enquiry

Weekly

Working demo cadence

WCAG 2.2 AA

Accessibility standard we build to

FAQ

Tourism & Hospitality — questions we hear first.

Usually yes. Most projects keep the reservation system in place and connect to it, whether that is a property management system, a central reservation system, a channel manager or a third party booking widget. We start by mapping what the system can actually expose, then design the site around that rather than around a wish list.

Sometimes, when the available options genuinely do not fit: multi-day tours with capacity rules, timed entry ticketing, or packages that combine rooms, activities and add-ons. More often the better answer is a custom booking flow on top of a proven engine, so you get the experience you want without owning payment and inventory logic.

We build bilingual English and French sites as a matter of course, and add other market languages when the audience justifies it. The important part is process: which content is translated, who signs it off, and how seasonal details such as hours, closures and shuttle times stay in step across every language version.

We treat it as an experience and measurement problem. That means a direct booking path that is faster than the alternative, clear messaging on rates and inclusions, review and loyalty prompts in sensible places, and analytics that show what each channel actually contributes across a long booking window.

Ideally in your quiet period, so the build, the content work and the integration testing all happen before demand arrives. If you come to us mid-season we scope a smaller first release that fixes the things costing you bookings now, then plan the larger work for the shoulder season. Request a quote and we will map the timing.

For most properties a fast, accessible mobile site does the job and is cheaper to keep current. An app earns its place when there is something to do after the booking: mobile keys, itineraries, in-stay ordering, ticket scanning, loyalty, or offline maps for remote locations. We will tell you plainly which case you are in.

Guest records, payment details and marketing consent all need care. Canadian operators work under PIPEDA and, in Quebec, Law 25, and PCI DSS applies to card handling. We build consent capture and data handling into the site, forms and analytics, and we work alongside your own legal advisers rather than in place of them.

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