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YoloTrips: a travel platform with a webshop for Thailand

A Dutch-language travel platform for Thailand with travel guides, routes, a webshop with digital guides and a personal trip plan. Built on Next.js and Medusa. Travellers plan with YoloTrips and book themselves.

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Homepage of YoloTrips with a temple in Thailand and buttons to the free packing list and the First Timer Bundle
  • Product page in the YoloTrips web shop for the digital guide for a first trip to Thailand
  • Thailand travel routes page of YoloTrips with a drawn route map
  • Homepage of YoloTrips on a mobile phone

What was needed

YoloTrips helps Dutch and Belgian travellers plan a trip through Thailand with comfort, calm and a clear plan. Not a backpacking trip, but not an expensive tailor-made tour either: something in between.

The old site ran on WordPress and did not grow with what YoloTrips wanted to offer: besides articles, also digital products and a personal trip plan. It needed a platform that combines content, a webshop and a planner in one, without losing existing addresses in Google.

What we built

  • A new site in Next.js with a webshop on Medusa, an open-source commerce system, and a PostgreSQL database. Payments go through Stripe.
  • A blog with decision-aid articles and pages per destination and route, managed from a custom admin area with a blog CMS.
  • The YOLO Trip Plan: a questionnaire that results in a personal travel magazine with a map and planner. Travellers then book themselves.
  • A decision aid with current prices on the homepage, a free packing list and digital guides in the webshop.
  • A move away from WordPress in which old addresses redirect to the new page, or are properly reported as gone.
  • A newsletter through Systeme.io, email through Resend and Cloudflare Turnstile against spam in the forms.
  • A custom cookie banner with Consent Mode, so Google Analytics and the Meta pixel only measure after consent. Purchases are sent to Meta through the Conversions API.

Technology

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • next-intl
  • Medusa
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stripe
  • Resend
  • Systeme.io
  • Cloudflare Turnstile
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Analytics
  • Vercel
  • Railway

Afterwards

We handle the technology and hosting: the site on Vercel, the webshop and the database at Railway in Europe. Updates and security are part of that.

We also work on search visibility, with a focus on articles about where to stay in each city.

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