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Santa-Cruz Travel Agency — From Word of Mouth & Instagram DMs to a Full Tour Selection Platform
Description:
Santa-Cruz is a real travel agency in Odessa, Ukraine with 25+ years of experience and a 5.0 Google rating. Over the decades they built a loyal base of repeat clients who come back year after year and recommend the agency to friends and family through word of mouth.
Their online presence: an outdated website that was eventually abandoned, an Instagram account, and Telegram. New clients find them almost exclusively through personal recommendations from people who've travelled with them for years. I personally love this agency — and I wanted to give them a real chance to grow beyond word of mouth.
The After:
A fully designed, bilingual (EN/UA) website built entirely in Base44 — live, mobile-responsive, and built for real business operations from day one.
What I built:
-Hero with bilingual copy and destination overview
-Interactive tour catalog with 8 destinations (Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Greece, UAE, Cyprus, Maldives, Tunisia)
-Hot Deals section with weekly tour table, filters by destination and duration, and fan-card animation
-AI Superagent chat widget answering FAQs about tours, visas, and pricing in Ukrainian 24/7
-Personal tour selection form — client fills in destination, dates, budget, number of adults and children → saved to database → manager receives instant email with full client details to prepare a personalised offer
-Packing Checklist automation — user selects destination, enters email, receives a custom checklist automatically
-Live weather widget for all destinations via OpenWeatherMap API
-Memory Gallery with Pinterest-style masonry layout
-Tips blog with expert articles from the agency's 25+ years of experience
-Interactive Google Maps embed in Contacts
-Full bilingual EN/UA language switcher
The automation that matters most:
Before: every lead came through DMs. The manager had to manually ask each client about destination, dates, budget, and group size — one message at a time.
After: every inquiry hits a database and triggers an immediate email to the manager with the full client profile — ready to call and offer the perfect tour without a single back-and-forth message.
This is not a booking engine — it's a personalised tour selection service, digitised.
Built with: Base44 · OpenWeatherMap API · Google Maps · AI Superagent · Email automation
After: website: https://santacruz-travel-flow.base44.app/
Befor : 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ta_santacruz?igsh=MW41eWltOXN4MzdzcQ==
✈️ Telegram: t.me/Santa_Kruz_Odessa
📍 Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/u7JjzYvrerhpe4mt9
#GiveItAGlow @Base44
Excellent work. I especially appreciate how clearly the solution addresses the core problem while maintaining a clean and polished user experience. Well done! 🚀
Thank you! This means a lot 🙏✨
I like this work so much 🔥🔥🏖️
Thanks a lot!😊
Great job❣️
😊 thanks!
Today I visited the Santa Cruz travel agency to present the website I've been working on. We went through the client-facing site first, then spent most of our time diving into the admin panel, since that's really where the value for the client lives.
I walked them through each...
The idea with memory gallery is brilliant, that is what I need every time I visit any travel agency 🔥🔥🔥
Great work! The admin panel brings real value by giving the client full control and simplifying their daily tasks 🙌✈️
Thank you so much! 🔥 That's exactly the emotional hook I was going for — travel agencies sell feelings, not just tickets. A gallery of real client memories does that better than any brochure.
Beautiful design🙌
Thank you so much! 🙏 It was a joy to build — this agency truly deserved it.
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