{"id":2624,"date":"2009-04-20T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2009-04-20T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:55:00","slug":"solomon-islands-visitors-bureau-launches-new-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/04\/solomon-islands-visitors-bureau-launches-new-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau launches new website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsolomons.com.sb\/\">www.visitsolomons.com.sb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SevnBggEcsI\/AAAAAAAAGSs\/8fGnS191xew\/s1600-h\/solomonweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SevnBggEcsI\/AAAAAAAAGSs\/8fGnS191xew\/s320\/solomonweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326604997386072770\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(Honiara) The Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau website has been completely restructured and has received a complete visual makeover, making it one of the leading travel websites in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Tokuru, General Manager of the Solomon Islands Visitor Bureau said &#8220;This is a great day in the development of tourism services for Solomon Islands.  We now have a website that&#8217;s a one-stop shop for anybody travelling to and around Solomon Islands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;The new website includes more information than previously available on the former SIVB website, and also presents this in a very user friendly manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new design also merges general information about the Solomons as a destination alongside the contact details of tourism operators, such as accommodation, activities or service providers.<\/p>\n<p>While there are countless new features on the new site, one of the most exciting is the new translation capability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now possible to automatically translate the whole website in a matter of minutes into as many as 35 different languages. This new capability breaks down the language barriers and will allow SIVB to reach even more potential tourists,&#8221; Mr. Tokuru said.<\/p>\n<p>Other features include a live chat service (for travel assistance), three day weather forecast, newsletter sign-up, image galleries, extensive travel tools, traveller stories, Pidgin phrases, FAQs  and news updates.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps one of the most powerful new tools for the Visitors Bureau is in the website statistics. These enable SIVB staff to see a whole range of information on the characteristics of those people visiting the website. This information will enable SIVB to respond to the market demands more efficiently by revising content on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Tokuru stressed that this is only the beginning.  &#8220;While the new website may now be live, the hard work is yet to come. In order for the website to remain effective, a continuous process of reviewing, analyzing and finding new and innovative ways to reach tourists will need to be undertaken by SIVB.<\/p>\n<p>The website project was begun in August of 2008 and has been run and managed by Alejandra Cares Henriquez, an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development who joined SIVB on a 12 month volunteer contract.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitsolomons.com.sb\/\">www.visitsolomons.com.sb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.visitsolomons.com.sb (Honiara) The Solomon Islands Visitors Bureau website has been completely restructured and has received a complete visual makeover, making it one of the leading travel websites in the South Pacific. Michael Tokuru, General Manager of the Solomon Islands Visitor Bureau said &#8220;This is a great day in the development of tourism services for Solomon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}