Vacation in Germany

Cutting Edge Tourismus Marketing

Urlaub99euro.de, developed by Dr. Eckard

Ritter, helps hotels, vacation providers and

tourism organizations in Germany

● present their services and current offers

● getting traffic and thus more bookings

● boost their visibility on the Web and get the

attention they deserve

1. About Urlaub99Euro

A Multilingual Web App

Urlaub99Euro is a Single Page Website and

can be displayed in many languages.

Benefit: all contents displayed are available in

the respective language. Including data from

the database updated seconds ago!Drawback: well, automatic translation is never perfect - but

Google translate has matured a lot.

Top Section: Latest Offers,

Packages

Latest offers by type, plus events

New category: events

Planning a trip and selecting hotels is more than just

comparing rates and services.

With an ever increasing abundance of offers, decisions are

increasingly based on soft factors, too, such as some

inspiring attractions and events nearby.

On Urlaub99Euro, hosts and hotels may publish tourism

information of all kind as news. For instance, insiders’ tips

on walking trails or Christmas near the location.

Listing by region

Hotels and vacation providers are listed by

vacation region (rather than German states),

sorted by update date, descending. Hence,

those who update their offers more often are

listed in better positions.

Adding valuable tourism information

So far, we have extended Urlaub99Euro’s

travel offers by tourism information, provided

directly from hotels and landlords.

Next step: including tourism information from

our curated external resources. A variety of

media, journals and travel blogs add fresh

value to Urlaub99Euro via their RSS feeds.

Adding even more tourism content

Urlaub99Euro is about Vacation in Germany, but site visitors

may be interested in foreign destinations, too. Selected

feeds from 160+ sources include

● Our own vacation offers, seamlessly integrated with

● Media and blogs on Germany travel, in German

● Travel blogs from all over, in German (separate page)

● International blogs, journals and media, in English

In our Travel Feeds app, more than 2000 recents posts can

be displayed on one single page, and very user-friendly.

2. Presentation

Two formats: single-page site or app

Last slide: Hotel Seerose

Page: urlaub99euro.de/hotel-seerose-lindau/

App: app.blitzcard.eu/hotel-seerose-lindau/

Next slide: Hotel zur Rose

Page: urlaub99euro.de/… zur-rose-argenbuehl/

App: app.blitzcard.eu/… zur-rose-argenbuehl/

A variety of image formats

With both vacation provider profiles, single-

page site or web app, there are plenty of image

display possibilities.

● Example: ng-app.de - Beispiele (in German)

● Tutorials: erstellen, bearbeiten (in German)

The next slide shows a switchable image grid

Image galleries

The next slide shows an image gallery. It’s a

nifty app within the app - like the one with the

switchable grid you have seen - self-explaining.

Kudos for the inventors, they are all listed and linked on every single app

The contact page

Any profile - app or web page - has a contact

page or a contact section, respectively.(for a web app, the term “view” would be more suitable than “page”, but the latter is more common)

The next slide shows a hotel contact page incl.

address, vCard code, QR code, Google map.

All these items are created automatically when

entering address data.

Built-in PDF reader

Some vacation providers use PDF documents, for instance

● Service price lists (rooms, wellness, amenities) or

seasonal price lists

● A glossy brochure for email distribution

● Regional tourism information

With our app format, PDF documents can be seamlessly

integrated. The next slide shows attractions on the isle of

Rügen, Baltic Sea (click the image to see it in action).

Export content to your website

Content display is not limited to Urlaub99Euro’s

servers. You can upload both the single-page

and the app format to your server as a website

or as part of your website.

Example (see next slide):

● Single page goes to warberg.mobi

● App format goes to app.warberg.mobi

You may even create an entire page!

There two formats for editing content to appear on your

site:

● Simple: plain text, header and body

● Rich format: using Markdown

Markdown is an easy way to create web pages.

Example - see next slide: use the Urlaub99Euro editor to

add a pricing table

Summary

This slide show is a draft - more to follow soon

Summary as of November 21, 2014

● About urlaub99euro.de - Vacation in Germany - Urlaub in Deutschland

● Selecting vacation offers by category. New category: Events

● News, tourism and travel articles via RSS additional to deals and rates

● Formats: single-page sites, web apps made with ng-app.de

● Bells and Whistles: Image formats, galleries, PDF reader, contact pages

Export Urlaub99Euro’s content to your own site and server:

● Upload an entire profile (site or app) - only FTP access required

● Embed Urlaub99Euro-offers into a page of your site on your server