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Travel website builder where every page can take a booking
PHPTRAVELS is a travel website builder with the booking engine already inside. Put search, deals, destinations and reviews on your pages, then take flight, hotel and tour bookings on your own domain.
- Travel-aware page blocks
- Booking engine built in
- Languages and currencies
- Self-hosted, source code included
Try it
Build a home page from travel blocks
A travel website builder should do more than arrange text and photos. In PHPTRAVELS each block is tied to a part of the platform. The hero carries the live search box. Deals read from the Offers. The blog strip shows posts from the Blog module and the newsletter form adds subscribers to the Newsletter. Switch blocks on and off below to see how a home page comes together.
Tap a block to add it to the page or take it off.
Two kinds of builder
General page builder or travel website builder
Both can publish a good-looking home page. The difference shows up the moment a visitor wants to book.
General page builder
- Pages are static. Prices and availability are typed in by hand and go out of date.
- Search means an external widget, an iframe or a link to someone else's site.
- Payment links are sent by email and matched to bookings in a spreadsheet.
- Tickets, vouchers and invoices are made in other tools after the sale.
- The site lives on the builder's platform, on its terms.
PHPTRAVELS travel website builder
- Blocks read live data: deals, destinations and search results come from your inventory and suppliers.
- Search, results, checkout and confirmation run natively on your own domain.
- Payment gateways, deposits and coupons are recorded against each booking.
- E-tickets, vouchers and invoices are issued by the same system that took the booking.
- Self-hosted under a one-time licence, with the source code included.
A general builder is fine for a brochure site that sends enquiries by email. Once you sell trips online, the booking flow matters more than the page editor. That is the gap a travel website builder closes, and it is the core of our Travel booking software platform.
Block reference
What each block shows and where its data comes from
Every block is set up in the admin. You choose what it shows; the platform keeps it up to date.
| Block | Data source | You set | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hero with search | Your connected flight, hotel and tour suppliers plus your own inventory | Background, headline and which search tabs appear | Flights |
| Deals | Offers you create, with prices, validity dates and markups applied | Which offers, how many, strip or grid layout | Offers |
| Destinations | Cities and regions that link to live search results | Destinations, images and the order of the tiles | Stays |
| Reviews | Quotes from travellers that you add and approve | Which quotes appear and on which pages | CMS |
| Blog | Posts written in the blog module, in each language | Category, number of posts, layout | Blog module |
| Newsletter | Your subscriber list in the newsletter module | Headline, button text and where the form sits | Newsletter |
| Content pages | About, contact, terms, privacy and landing pages in the CMS | Text, images, menus, title and description for search engines | CMS |
Before you go live
Launch checklist for a new travel website
Seven things to set before you send traffic to the site. Tick them off as you go; the ticks stay in this browser tab only.
- 0 / 7readyAll seven set. The site is ready for its first booking.
Related guides:ThemesPayment gateway integrationTravel CMS integration
From licence to launch
How a travel website goes live
The same six steps for an agency, a tour operator or a new OTA. Only the suppliers and the blocks change.
- 01
Choose a licence
Pick the plan that matches your languages, currencies and sales channels. You pay once.
- 02
Install on your server
PHPTRAVELS is self-hosted, so it runs on hosting you control, under your domain.
- 03
Connect suppliers
Add flight, hotel and activity APIs with your own credentials, or load your own contracted rates.
- 04
Build the pages
Choose a theme, then add blocks to the home page, destination pages and landing pages.
- 05
Test the booking flow
Run searches, book in test mode, check the voucher and invoice emails, then try it on a phone.
- 06
Launch and improve
Go live, watch which pages lead to bookings and adjust deals, blocks and copy from the reports.
Need it built for you? See Travel website development or browse All integrations
Costs
Which licence fits your travel website
The website builder is part of the platform, not a separate monthly subscription. Answer three questions to see the plan that fits.
Suggested plan
Startup
$2,499one-time licence
One domain, one language and one currency. A focused B2C site to start selling.
Agency
$4,999one-time licence
Adds more languages and the agent wallet, still on one domain and one currency.
Enterprise
$9,999one-time licence
Multiple currencies, unlimited domains, every theme and the B2B agent portal.
Hosting, and any fees your suppliers or payment providers charge, are paid to them directly.
See full pricingWho builds with it
Starting blocks for each travel business
You can use every block on any site. These are the ones each type of business usually turns on first.
- Travel agencies
- Sell flights and hotels to local travellers and repeat customers who trust your brand.
- Start withHero with searchDealsNewsletter
- Tour operators
- Show your own itineraries and fixed departures, with inclusions and day-by-day plans.
- Start withDestinationsReviewsBlog
- New online travel agencies
- Compete on choice and price with many suppliers behind one search box.
- Start withHero with searchDealsDestinations
- DMCs and local experts
- Win trust with destination knowledge, then turn readers into enquiries and bookings.
- Start withBlogReviewsNewsletter
FAQ
Travel website builder questions
What agencies, tour operators and new OTAs ask before they build.
Talk to salesIt is a tool for building a travel company's website where the pages and the booking engine are one system. Visitors can search, book and pay on the site, and your team handles the booking in the same admin.
Not for day-to-day work. Pages, blocks, menus, logo, colours and translations are managed in the admin. A developer helps with installation and hosting, and because the source code is included, with any custom change you want later.
Hero with search, deals, destination grids, reviews, blog posts, a newsletter form, text and image, FAQs and calls to action. Travel blocks read live data from the platform, so prices and posts stay current.
Yes. PHPTRAVELS is self-hosted, so the site runs on your server under your domain. Startup and Agency cover one domain and Enterprise covers unlimited domains.
Yes. Agency and Enterprise support more than one language, including right-to-left layouts. Multiple currencies are part of Enterprise; Startup and Agency use one currency.
Yes. You connect payment gateways such as Stripe or PayPal, and each payment, deposit or coupon is recorded against the booking it belongs to.
Licences start at $2,499 as a one-time payment, with the website builder included. Hosting and any supplier or payment provider fees are separate and paid directly to those providers.
A free builder can test an idea with a few pages and an enquiry form. Once you sell trips online you need live search, checkout, payments and vouchers in one place, which a general builder does not provide.
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