Heritage Expeditions

Heritage Expeditions is a travel company specialising in trips to the Antarctic regions. The web site outlines the trips, departures dates and information related to these trips.

The project was to migrate the site to Drupal and provide Heritage Expeditions staff with greater control over the content and Trip information. Availability information is pulled from the reservation sytem that is used internally and displayed on the site and a focus was placed on automating as much of the display of content as possible to reduce maintenance requirements.

The final site disguises a relatively complex set of relationships between Regions, Trips, Departures and Destinations by presenting different types of related information together. Content management of the separate types is handled by merging relevant content together and providing simple interfaces for forming relationships between content.

Alongside the Trip information, Heritage Expeditions staff are also able manage all the content on their site, pull in external videos, add header images, set availability to override the data coming from the external reservation system, manage newsletters and subscriptions and add content as required. Automated image manipulation allows staff to upload photos that are then automatically resized and cropped to be displayed correctly removing the need for offline image manipulation.