As long as humans will experience a sense of adventure in finding new things, travel and tourism will remain a profitable industry. And to tap into this industry, to maintain your already established customer base, to broaden your travel business to new horizons; a significant Internet presence is must, which can only be achieved through an attractive website. For small scale travel agencies, tourism companies, or travel bloggers, creating a website from scratch can be a daunting process. But thanks to Content Management Systems like WordPress, this task has been simplified a lot.
Now you just need to install WordPress on your domain, add a theme, add a few additional plugins and viola, you get a functional website. It is nearly as easy as it sounds with only one complication- choosing the right WordPress theme. A theme dictates the look and feel of your site and is an important step in constructing the overall functionality of your custom website.
There are thousands of paid and free themes available on the Internet. Choosing a theme suitable for your travel agency’s website or for your travel blog, could be like finding a needle in a haystack. But fortunately we have good eyes. We present to you top 5 free WordPress themes that could be used by travel and tourism companies and agencies.
Top 5 Free WordPress Themes
Mantra
Highly popular, simple yet attractive, and most importantly responsive, Mantra is a great free theme for building your travel site. Since most travel plans are made while on the go, it is important to have a website that can be accessed on the go, i.e. through a mobile device like Smartphone. A responsive theme is a great option for making your site mobile compatible. The theme is highly customizable with over 80 customization options ranging from presentation page, layout settings, and graphic settings to text and format settings. A great feature of this theme is its integrated social networking icon. You can add up to 5 social networks from a list of 27 different types of social networking platforms. The theme has a smooth built-in slide, 4 presentation page columns, and an extra text feature, right on the front or presentation page.
Download Mantra WordPress Theme
Design – 8/10
User friendliness – 8/10
Customizability – 9/10
Suitability – 6/10
Mantra WordPress Themes for Travel Agencies
Overall Rating – 7.75 / 10 stars
Sunny Beach
Dedicated to building a travel website or blog, Sunny Beach is a free responsive WordPress theme that has a dynamic content loader and customizable sidebars. Sunny Beach theme is Google short code ready, widget ready, has a dedicated social share bar and has a dedicated contact page. It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress and has a dedicated built in slider. Sunny beach is a great theme to create a dedicated travel website.
Download Sunny Beach WordPress Theme
Design – 8/10
User friendliness – 7/10
Customizability – 8/10
Suitability – 7/10
Sunny Beach WordPress Themes for Travel Agencies
Overall Rating – 7.5 / 10 stars
Light, fast, simple, and attractive, Neptune is a great theme to display different destinations and tourist areas that are offered by the travel company. It is a free GPL theme and has an inbuilt image slider that can support multiple images. It also has a built-in pretty Photo script and can support videos, images, flash, YouTube, iframes, and Ajax. The portfolio can be organized into unlimited categories and would be displayed according to the category on the presentation page.
Download Neptune WordPress Theme
Design – 6/10
User friendliness – 7/10
Customizability – 7/10
Suitability – 7/10
Neptune WordPress Themes for Travel Agencies
Overall Rating – 6.75 / 10 stars
Even though it is intended for making a business site, MyCorp can also be utilized by a travel company especially for one that has many different packages to offer. In its presentation page the theme displays a smooth built-in slider, with three unique highlight boxes, and 4 additional small boxes that takes latest projects from portfolios. It also has a dedicated blog page that is easy to access and easy to use. However the theme is not that customizable.
Download MyCorp WordPress Theme
Design – 7/10
User friendliness – 6/10
Customizability – 5/10
Suitability – 8/10
MyCorp WordPress Themes for Travel Agencies
Overall Rating – 6.5 / 10 stars
Travel Blogger is a theme that is dedicated to building a travel Blog. It is light and fast and have many options for customization. Though this theme may not be the most suitable for making a travel company’s website, it can be used to make a great travel blog. It has a dedicated social share bar. The theme is widget ready and comes in two customizable and switchable color schemes.
Download Travel Blogger WordPress Theme
Design – 6/10
User friendliness – 6/10
Customizability – 5/10
Suitability – 6/10
Travel Blogger WordPress Themes for Travel Agencies
Overall Rating – 5.75 / 10 stars
Author Bio
Charu Garg is associated with WPIntegration, a specialized division of ipraxa – which is a full scale solution providing web agency, offering services like PSD to WordPress and Integration with 3rd party application. Subscribe to our Blog RSS or follow us on Google+, Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter for updates on WordPress Integration Service.
