Development Phase 5 - Finalize, Deploy & Live In-Market Refinements of Booking System, & Itinerary Planner
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- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Academic experience
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Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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Pathfinder365 is a digital command centre, supporting the end-to-end digital needs of small to medium sized Canadian tourism businesses...from Discovery & Promotion, to Lead & Inquiry Management, (and soon) to Booking & Scheduling. As we evolve our own technology, and leverage strategic integrations, our focus is the holistic support and growth of the Canadian tourism industry. We're the first and only software company to create a powerful operational command centre for tourism businesses, and we aim to become the most useful platform for local and micro-tourism.
Existing platforms primarily showcase popular experiences, leaving much of the industry unsupported. Pathfinder stands apart by championing and promoting smaller businesses, aiming for inclusivity across the diverse tourism landscape. In a world dominated by financially-driven algorithms and ads, travellers often miss out on lesser-known, but exceptional, experiences. Pathfinder365 seeks to rectify this imbalance by offering a fairer representation, ensuring a broader discovery of brilliant destinations.
Pathfinder365βs mission is to revolutionize the current landscape of tourism platforms, advocating for fairness and a more comprehensive view of available travel experiences, while providing a full suite of promotional and lead management tools for its business partners, and a suite of discovery tools for its travellers.
As we've evolved this system over our young life of 2.5 years, we've focused on building out the three key stages of a typical customer journey, discussed earlier. We've successfully built a solid foundation for the Discovery & Promotion stage, and we've integrated a comprehensive and dynamic lead management system to cover the Lead & Inquiry Management stage. Now it's time for the Booking & Scheduling system, which is a huge undertaking, and a critical one.
With this project, we're looking to engage with a small team of talented full-stack developers to collaborate with our two internal developers, to build the first version of a tactical Booking & Scheduling system. This first version needs to be effective, efficient, and be the foundation for successive iterations for this system, which could eventually evolve into a dynamic property management system.
This phase will involve:
- Live in-market deployment of the Booking & Scheduling system to our test site
- Testing the system with test data, and potentially having actual customers run through it
- Addressing any UX/UI issues discovered through live testing
- Updates, fixes, pushing code fixes
- Potentially pushing the code to our live site
- Identify and track necessary features for subsequent iterations
- Track all innovations in a document
- Starting to code the Itinerary Planner
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:
- A strong understanding of our target market, products and services
- Understanding of travel and hospitality booking & scheduling systems
- Have successfully built and launched version one of our system
- Have tracked, documented, and recommended key features for future iterations
Bonus steps would include:
- Identified areas of improvements with other features and tools of our discovery system
Final deliverables should include
- A technical overview of what has been completed to date on this epic
- A broad outline for additional features for future versions
- A final report, including notes on things they discovered, suggestions they have for this system and any aspect of the discovery system, a list of features and functionalities we'll want to incorporate for future iterations.
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
Pathfinder365 is a digital command centre, supporting the end-to-end digital needs of small to medium sized Canadian tourism businesses...from Discovery & Promotion, to Lead & Inquiry Management, (and soon) to Booking & Scheduling. As we evolve our own technology, and leverage strategic integrations, our focus is the holistic support and growth of the Canadian tourism industry. We're the first and only software company to create a powerful operational command centre for tourism businesses, and we aim to become the most useful platform for local and micro-tourism.
Existing platforms primarily showcase popular experiences, leaving much of the industry unsupported. Pathfinder stands apart by championing and promoting smaller businesses, aiming for inclusivity across the diverse tourism landscape. In a world dominated by financially-driven algorithms and ads, travellers often miss out on lesser-known, but exceptional, experiences. Pathfinder365 seeks to rectify this imbalance by offering a fairer representation, ensuring a broader discovery of brilliant destinations.
Pathfinder365βs mission is to revolutionize the current landscape of tourism platforms, advocating for fairness and a more comprehensive view of available travel experiences, while providing a full suite of promotional and lead management tools for its business partners, and a suite of discovery tools for its travellers.
As we've evolved this system over our young life of 2.5 years, we've focused on building out the three key stages of a typical customer journey, discussed earlier. We've successfully built a solid foundation for the Discovery & Promotion stage, and we've integrated a comprehensive and dynamic lead management system to cover the Lead & Inquiry Management stage. Now it's time for the Booking & Scheduling system, which is a huge undertaking, and a critical one.
With this project, we're looking to engage with a small team of talented full-stack developers to collaborate with our two internal developers, to build the first version of a tactical Booking & Scheduling system. This first version needs to be effective, efficient, and be the foundation for successive iterations for this system, which could eventually evolve into a dynamic property management system.
This phase will involve:
- Live in-market deployment of the Booking & Scheduling system to our test site
- Testing the system with test data, and potentially having actual customers run through it
- Addressing any UX/UI issues discovered through live testing
- Updates, fixes, pushing code fixes
- Potentially pushing the code to our live site
- Identify and track necessary features for subsequent iterations
- Track all innovations in a document
- Starting to code the Itinerary Planner
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:
- A strong understanding of our target market, products and services
- Understanding of travel and hospitality booking & scheduling systems
- Have successfully built and launched version one of our system
- Have tracked, documented, and recommended key features for future iterations
Bonus steps would include:
- Identified areas of improvements with other features and tools of our discovery system
Final deliverables should include
- A technical overview of what has been completed to date on this epic
- A broad outline for additional features for future versions
- A final report, including notes on things they discovered, suggestions they have for this system and any aspect of the discovery system, a list of features and functionalities we'll want to incorporate for future iterations.
Supported causes
About the company
- https://roamlii.com
- 2 - 10 employees
- Travel & tourism
Roamlii is a digital command centre, supporting the end-to-end digital needs of small to medium sized Canadian tourism businesses...from Discovery & Promotion, to Lead & Inquiry Management, to (soon) Booking & Scheduling. As we evolve our own technology, and leverage strategic integrations, our focus is the holistic support and growth of the Canadian tourism industry. We're the first and only software company to create a powerful operational command centre for tourism businesses, and we aim to become the most useful platform for local and micro-tourism.
Existing platforms primarily showcase popular experiences, leaving much of the industry unsupported. Pathfinder stands apart by championing and promoting smaller businesses, aiming for inclusivity across the diverse tourism landscape. In a world dominated by financially-driven algorithms and ads, travellers often miss out on lesser-known, but exceptional, experiences. Pathfinder365 seeks to rectify this imbalance by offering a fairer representation, ensuring a broader discovery of brilliant destinations.
Roamliiβs mission is to revolutionize the current landscape of tourism platforms, advocating for fairness and a more comprehensive view of available travel experiences, while providing a full suite of promotional and lead management tools for its business partners, and a suite of discovery tools for its travellers.