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Case study · Japanese and Chinese websites

Lake District Tours, booked from Japan and China

A sightseeing tour company in the Lake District. We redesigned their site in Japanese and English, then built and translated a Chinese site with online booking, and bookings from both countries grew greatly.

Lake District Tours website on desktop
Client
Lake District Tours
Sector
Guided sightseeing tours
Languages
English, Japanese, Chinese
Services
Design, development, translation

The brief

More visitors from Japan, then China

Lake District Tours runs guided sightseeing tours of the Lake District.

They first asked us to redesign their website in Japanese and English to increase enquiries from Japan. A few years later, they asked us to build and translate a Chinese website too.

How we did it

Built to turn interest into bookings

  1. 01

    Japanese and English site

    A redesign full of photos and testimonials from existing tours, to win enquiries from Japan.

  2. 02

    Chinese site

    Built and translated by us, with links to a booking and reservation system.

  3. 03

    Interactive maps

    Maps of each tour route, with the highlights and a photo of every stop.

The result

Visitors and bookings up

Both sites brought the business new customers from the markets they targeted.

Interactive map of a Lakes Explorer tour route
An interactive tour route map

Outcome

Greatly increased bookings

The Japanese site was very successful, with visitor numbers and bookings greatly increased.

After the Chinese site launched, business grew greatly with bookings from China.

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