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Create a tour category page

Every travel ecommerce website has category pages (unless you just have one or two tours). For example on Nepal Uncovered there is a category page that lists all the Nepal trekking trips that they operate.

One of the key elements of a category page is the tour listing giving a short description of every tour. For example you may want to create a listing as follows:


This can be achieved in TourCMS as follows:

Firstly categorise your tours (see the Configuration & Setup manual for details)

Create two extra content fields on the tour record (go to Configuration & Setup to do this). The two extra fields you need are country (t_extra_country - single text line) and thumbnail (t_extra_thumbnail - HTML editor - full layout) for the small image. The tour name, short description, and duration description are already fields that are configured in your default TourCMS account

Now, in each tour record, you have the additional fields.

Managing small images
Nepal Uncovered have chosen to use 75 x 75 pixel images. These seem to work quite nicely.

Within each tour go to the content section and upload the appropriate image.
This is what the image will look like inside TourCMS:


The final page template
Using a Single page template, use the following code style:


In place of the XXX in c_id="XXX" place the collection ID that groups the tours that you want on this page.

Two additional 1x1 pixel images are required to complete the table. The space.gif is a blank image. The greyspace.gif image is used to create the grey line. Hopefully you can make these images yourself.

You can also create lists of tours (by collection) using the collection repeating template.