Mr Zen Ltd

Facts Travel - the largest consolidator of flights to Iran has chosen Mr Zen to develop their website presence.

This exciting project will see some light integration with the Amadeus booking engine and some serious Search Engine Optimisation to try to significantly improve the number of online bookings being currently delivered by the system.

We are pleased to be on board!

Silk Road and Beyond, a tour operator specialising in Private Tours and Tailormade Holidays to Central Asia and the Far East have chosen Mr Zen to develop an exciting new website.

We are using our travel components to deliver a bang up to date tour operator system, linked in with their reservations system, optimised for SEO, and with some impressive 'Web 2.0' features such as a customer booking area, testimonials and more besides.

Future plans include full booking system integration and seamless integration with the Amadeus API.

We look forward to our continued partnership.

Mr Zen is proud to be associated with HFSC - Hayling Ferry Sailing Club, Hayling Island.

As part of that association, Mr Zen has provided the club with a brand new website free of charge.

The new site features:

• Photo Galleries
• Easy to use front end administration for Committee Members
• Extensive members-only area
• Public and Private member profiles
• Event calendar
• Race timetables
• Registration for all events
• Live weather feeds from a number of sources
• Live webcam from the beach
• Member only notices
• Member to Member connections
• Member communication without revealing private information
• Photo uploads
• Blogs
• Bulletin boards
• Committee information
• RSS feeds from all news pages

Mr Zen is pleased to announce the launch of the new Explore Worldwide website.

The specialist holiday market has seen steady growth in online marketing budgets and on website development over the past 5 years. The website is now a specialist holiday company’s number one direct touch point for both new and existing clients, and clients are becoming increasingly demanding of websites as technology and connection speeds improve. The importance of online marketing techniques has never been so great, as companies look for more cost effective ways of getting their messages direct to their market.

Brief

Explore Worldwide – Europe’s leading small group adventure holiday business wanted to improve the performance of their online marketing by increasing the conversion rate of their website.
Explore asked Mr Zen to analyse their online performance, and manage a project to implement the changes.

Solution

After a short investigative period, the a plan was drawn up to address the following items:

• Reliability problems were investigated, adequate monitoring setup and issues resolved.
• The website underwent a complete rebuild of the database and integration with their reservation system.
• The website was completely redesigned, and brought in line with Explore’s brand strategy.
• The usability of the website was improved with usability best practice and improved performance of the databases.
• The booking process integration was revived and made more reliable.
• Browser compatibility and accessibility was improved.

All of these changes were performed using the current systems in order to keep the project as cost effective as possible. Mr Zen worked with Explore’s existing development company and marketing team to deliver a new site in time for the January selling season.