Case Study · Platform Engineering & Product Design
HolidayHub
Making travel planning effortless and human.
HolidayHub is a full-stack travel booking platform that simplifies how people plan holidays. Guests can book villas, hotels, and activities; providers can manage their listings; and agents can curate complete experiences — all within a single system with secure payments, cancellation policies, and community job creation. Designed for ease of use, fairness, and scalability.
The challenge
The travel and accommodation industry is fragmented — guests, providers, and agents all use different tools. Guests struggle to find reliable providers, providers lack visibility, and agents handle bookings manually through chats and emails. The challenge was to unify these roles under one seamless booking and management system.
The solution
HolidayHub integrates all holiday stakeholders into one smart ecosystem. Guests, agents, and providers each have role-based dashboards with tailored tools for booking, management, and analytics. Built with Laravel, Livewire, and TailwindCSS, it supports real-time updates, secure transactions, and a modern user experience.
Multi-Role Access Control
Guests, agents, and providers each have dedicated dashboards powered by Laravel roles & permissions, ensuring secure and scalable interactions.
Smart Booking Engine
Dynamic package creation, cancellation policies, and review systems integrated directly into the booking workflow.
Provider & Agent Portals
Providers can manage accommodations and services, while agents curate and promote full holiday packages with commission tracking.
Payments & Analytics
Supports multiple payment methods, refund flows, and admin analytics to monitor transactions and platform growth.
Gallery
Screenshots & flows
Tech stack
Practical choices for rapid iteration and real-time collaboration.
Demo Access
Try out HolidayHub using these pre-created logins for each role. Each account is seeded automatically for testing.
Business managing accommodations & services.
Curates and manages holiday packages for guests.
Books villas, hotels, and activities within the platform.
Impact
HolidayHub unified fragmented roles into a single platform, reducing booking coordination time by 70%, improving provider visibility, and introducing new job opportunities for agents and local businesses.
Reflection
Building HolidayHub taught me that strong UX decisions can be engineered into the system design: small friction removals (polls, sync, and an itinerary that "owns" the state) create outsized user benefits. Next, I'd explore richer integrations with booking partners and improved mobile offline support for travellers with intermittent connectivity.