2009 - Monarch Holidays
New Monarch Travel Portal Goes Live

We started working with the Monarch Group in June 2007.  We were originally task with designing and developing a new holiday’s website for Cosmos.  This wasn’t just a web development project, it was an exercise in transforming Cosmos from a brochure and travel agent focused enterprise into a direct online holiday business.  We worked primarily with Cosmos’s marketing, commercial and IT teams to completely rebuild it’s website, content management system and booking processes. 

The project was a huge success and soon we found ourselves doing the same for somewhere2stay, the groups accommodation only website.  We also worked with Cosmos’s IT team and OpenJaw, a third party, in developing a dynamic packaging solution, which gave the user the ability to pick and mix different flights from different operators and hotels from a different bed banks as well as somewhere2stay’s.

In May 2008, the group came up with a new strategy to develop a full travel portal under the Monarch Brand.  The first stage of which was simply to ‘reskin’ the Cosmos and somewhere2stay brands in Monarch colours, positioning them as Monarch Holidays and Monarch Hotels. 

The next stage was to develop a brand new site taking the best elements from the 3 separate Monarch sites and combining them into one Travel Portal.  Over the last 6 months we’ve been working hard alongside Monarch’s IT and commercial teams to develop the Portal and we’re happy to announce that stage 1 of the Travel Portal is now live and can been seen at www.monarch.co.uk

The next stage is to re-design the booking paths for flights, holidays and hotels.  We’re hoping to have these completed before the end of October.  As always we’ll keep you posted.

Read more in our Monarch Holidays Web Design Case Study