Booking platform with six inventory types behind one search
A full online travel agency covering hotels, flights, properties, cars, tours, and cruises — with a companion Android app for booking and trip management on the move.
- Web application
- Android app
- hotels
- flights
- stays
- cars
- tours
- cruises
six adapters, one booking service
- Multi-vertical search
- Property and inventory pages
- Wishlists
What we were solving
An online travel agency is six products wearing one coat. Hotels, flights, properties, cars, tours, and cruises each have their own search parameters, availability rules, and booking shapes — but a traveller expects one coherent journey across all of them.
The build also had to work under real conditions: travellers browse on slow mobile connections, compare across several sessions before committing, and often start on a phone and finish on a laptop.
That meant search had to stay fast under varied inventory, and intent — wishlists, part-finished searches, bookings — had to survive across devices.
How we built it
- 01
One search surface, six inventory shapes
We built a shared search and results layer with per-vertical adapters underneath. A traveller moves between hotels and cars without relearning the interface, while each vertical keeps the filters that actually matter to it.
- 02
Design for the comparison habit
Travel is rarely a single-session purchase. Wishlists and a persistent booking history are core to the model rather than account extras, so a trip researched on Tuesday is still there on Thursday — and on a different device.
- 03
Performance as a conversion feature
Image-heavy travel pages punish careless loading. We leaned on server rendering, responsive image delivery, and deferred non-critical work so first paint stays quick on mid-range phones and weak connections.
- 04
Native app for the trip itself
The web platform wins discovery and booking; the Android app serves the traveller once they are moving — bookings to hand, changes without a browser. Both run against the same booking service, so state never diverges.
What the platform does
Multi-vertical search
Hotels, flights, properties, cars, tours, and cruises under a single destination-first search experience.
Property and inventory pages
Rich detail pages with galleries, amenities, availability, and pricing tuned for image-heavy content.
Wishlists
Saved trips and properties that persist across sessions and devices, built for a long comparison cycle.
Booking management
A single history of upcoming and past bookings, accessible from both web and the Android app.
Accounts and authentication
Sign-up and login with session continuity, so an interrupted booking can be resumed rather than restarted.
Companion Android app
Published on Google Play, sharing the same booking service as the web platform.
What it runs on, and where it landed
- Frontend
- ReactTypeScriptTailwind CSS
- Backend
- Node.jsREST APIs
- Data
- PostgreSQLRedis
- Mobile
- React NativeGoogle Play
- Six travel verticals served through one consistent search and booking experience
- Wishlists and booking history persist across sessions and devices
- Image-heavy pages tuned for mid-range phones and slow connections
- Web and Android share one booking service, so state never diverges
Common questions
01How long does it take to build an online travel platform?
A focused single-vertical booking product — hotels only, for example — is typically a 10 to 16 week build. A multi-vertical platform of this shape is planned in phases, launching one or two verticals first and adding the rest against a live product rather than holding everything back for one release.
02Can it integrate with third-party travel inventory APIs?
Yes. The per-vertical adapter layer exists precisely so inventory sources can be swapped or added — global distribution systems, channel managers, or direct supplier APIs — without rewriting the search and booking surface above them.
03Do you build the mobile app as well as the web platform?
Yes, and we recommend it. Both run against the same booking service, which is what keeps bookings, wishlists, and account state consistent no matter where the traveller picks up.
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