Use Case #2: Tourism Website Enhances User Experience with Elfsight

Today, we’re taking a look at the website and story shared by our long-time customer and amazing community member, @Phil! Let’s explore how Phil is using our widgets and the impact they’ve had.

Name: Phil Sproson

Business Area: Tourism

Website URL: https://letsgopeakdistrict.co.uk

Widgets Used: Contact Form, Form Builder, All-in-One Reviews, Instagram Feed, Event Calendar, Photo Gallery, Popup, Pricing Table, Store Locator

Widgets in Action


Phil uses a variety of Elfsight widgets to enhance user experience on his site. Here’s how he’s utilizing some of them:

Homepage: 4 widgets

We love how Popup is being used here to display important information without cluttering the page. It’s a perfect way to highlight key details while keeping things clean and user-friendly.

The Social Media Icons are also a great touch, allowing visitors to easily connect with the company and learn more about them.

As a touristic agency, they also use the Event Calendar to showcase upcoming events that potential customers may be interested in. Plus, with the Instagram Feed widget displaying stunning, inspiring photos — it’s hard to stay indifferent! :slight_smile:

Pricing Table, Contact Form

We just loved how Let’s Go Peak District integrated the Pricing Table to explain different advertising options. And placing a Contact Form right after is a really smart move:


Store Locator

Phil’s creative use of the Store Locator widget to highlight specific tourist routes right on the map is truly impressive!


Before Using Elfsight


  • The self-service directory lacked SEO and content control.
  • The default contact form and user control panels didn’t fit the desired setup.
  • Needed a more user-friendly, visually appealing, and reliable solution.
  • Custom tweaks to the default contact form often broke after updates, causing maintenance issues.

Solution


"We have made extensive use of Contact Forms, and we sell Review widgets or Instagram Feeds as an upsell or with our higher-rate listing packages. This works really, really well.

A game changer recently has been a creative use of the Store Locator. Since we use longitude and latitude anyway for all of our listings, and I have the ability to download all into a CSV, I have been able to recreate our holiday property listings into a more useful single map across all of our categories (I would love to see categories in future):

Our places to eat and drink:

Our experiences and things to do in the Peak District:

And since we share the above weekly on Instagram and Facebook stories, the links are opened on phones most often, and the geolocating ensures that the page shows the closest advertisers are shown based on their current location… so if they need a cafe or pub they see it as a list of what is nearest to them. AMAZING!"


A huge thank you to Phil for sharing this story! We wish you all the best as you continue to grow and inspire with your website! :airplane:

Loved the story? Hit the like button or share a comment — it’s always awesome to get support from fellow buddies! :blush:

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Thank you for sharing our use of Elfsight widgets @Helga :smile:

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I forgot to mention in the original feedback that I had also used the ‘Store Locator’ for the start/finish point of the walks that we have on our website. Using a CSV to add the data including the longitude and latitude, this enables the geolocating function when users access our walks when in the Peak District National Park to see which walks start closest to where they are at the point they access the page. See: https://letsgopeakdistrict.co.uk/peak-district-trails/ - this using the “Shades of Green” map style to give an idea of the local topography.

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Oh, this is a great remark, thanks a lot for your comment, Phil! It’s really smart to give an option to see the closest walk right away :blush: