Happy families, happy camp organizers and happy landowners - it's possible. Thanks to the two websites WebstanZ has created with Atouts Camps and Votre Camp.
If someone had told us 25 years ago, when we were scout leaders, that all it would take was a simple click to obtain a list of approved camps... We'd have had a good laugh. Because back then, it was really a case of muddling through: we'd pick a region at random and a few months before the camp, we'd get in our car and go knocking on farmers' doors... It certainly had its charm, but it wasn't very efficient.
All that is over (or at least, it's no longer the only option), thanks to L'ASBL Atouts Camps. Since 2012, it has been awarding the official “Endroit de camp” label, enabling families and camp leaders to be reassured and informed about the quality and accessibility of campsites, their safety, hygiene, price, location and facilities.
Your mission,
if you accept it…
- ASBL Atouts camps : “Our main mission is to bring together our two distinct target groups: landowners and camp organizers.”.
- Us : “We'll set up a Market Place site for you”.
- ASBL Atouts camps : “We want everyone to feel reassured that camps are just wonderful, smoothly organized moments. Our aim is to improve the quality, safety and accessibility of youth camps.”.
Aside from the technical challenges, we're delighted to be involved in a project that supports, advises and informs both owners and tenants of host sites, while developing new camp sites.
Addressing two distinct targets... With two sites!
We have created two sites, sharing the same Drupal, the same database and the same functionalities: Atouts camps lists only approved camp locations, and Votre Camp lists all camp locations.
Both sites enable owners to upload and modify information about their accommodations via a descriptive sheet, as well as having a hand in organizational management with an availability calendar, tourist activities in the vicinity... In short, they need to be able to keep their space up to date!
Tenants can easily find the camp site that suits them best, using a multi-criteria search (type of accommodation; province; arrival and departure dates; capacity; PRM access...)..
It's always complicated to address two distinct targets with different objectives. That's what we've achieved with Atouts camp, by targeting both landlords and tenants. But by giving them access to the same database.
The key features
Drupal,
the king of multi-site management
Managing a multi-site presence with Drupal is just that simple. Thanks to the Domain Access module, we've chosen to create a centralized instance that can then publish information on two different domain names: Atouts Camps for accredited sites and Votre Camp for others (a sort of Abritel with all camp sites).
Because our aim is quite simply to provide an easy-to-use tool that lets you find the camp of your dreams in just a few clicks. You want a camp not too far away (in the Hainaut boot), for 30 children, with permanent accommodation, a meadow, in July, with PRM access? No problem: just search by criteria and the system, powered by Search Api and Facets, will find it for you in a matter of seconds!
