Tranquil Travel

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USA's famous dishes

Inspiration

Tranquil Travel is a website dedicated to making traveling easier. With today's technology, travelers can easily access many resources to make their journey a more pleasant experience. However, it is inconvenient for them to go through so many sites to find everything they need. They have to go to YouTube to view the best places to visit, and they have to go to TripAdvisor to book a hotel or view restaurants. They have to google the famous dishes they must try. Tranquil Travel helps a traveler overcome this difficulty by bringing everything necessary to plan a trip into a neat compact package.

What it does

Our creation allows travelers to explore multiple countries. For each country, we include a video displaying the top places to visit. It also shows the best three dishes someone might want to try when visiting with a brief history of the recipe. A handpicked playlist of the current local favorite songs is also featured. We allow travelers to view the top hotels and restaurants in their selected country. We use EchoAR to incorporate augmented reality so that they can see famous landmarks of a country from the safety of their rooms.

How we built it

Tranquil travel was built using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

The home page features a header image with an explore button. There’s a message welcoming the user to tranquil travel. We then list a few popular places a traveler may be interested in visiting along with an HTML form that redirects travelers to TripAdvisor’s search page based on their queries in case the info provided on our website is not enough.

Clicking on the explore button or locations takes us to the locations page. Here, more countries are shown. We plan on expanding our website to include more countries.

Every country is featured on its page. At the very top, we have a video displaying the top places to visit in that particular country. Then we have a short introduction welcoming the traveler. The top three dishes a Traveler must try if they go there are displayed next. We integrated the Spotify API to display a handpicked playlist of the current local favorites along with a follow button for a famous artist. To make things more convenient we have added a few extra details which show a user the hotels and restaurants in the country. The read more button redirects them to TripAdvisor’s collection of hotels and restaurants. At the very end of some pages, we have a surprise for the user if they scan the QR Code. Scanning the QR Code allows users to see 3D models of famous landmarks of the country.

In the Prepare page, we used a Rest API to allow users to check the weather at their destination. We also have a checklist to which users can add delete and cross out items they need to take.

Challenges we ran into

Making the website in 24 hours, finalising designs and making the video, coupled with the research for the countries we chose to display was quite a challenge. We could not include a few more countries even though we had the information required due to the images making the website slow. The United States and the United Arab Emirates are the only 2 countries featured.