The Vendor is required to provide web development firm with a strong tourism industry background to design, develop and launch an updated version of website, for the tourism development department known to consumers as beaches.
- This plan should incorporate best practices in the travel and tourism industry, cutting edge technology and a creative approach on how to deliver solutions that are search-friendly, AI-friendly, performance-driven, and secure.
- This should include a plan for migrating existing content and incorporating new.
- Website Features and Capabilities
• Development of a fully responsive, mobile-friendly website
• User-Centric Navigation:
• Intuitive design
• Streamlined navigation
• Robust, filterable listings and events calendar with user submission capabilities and administrative review workflows
• User-friendly content management system that allows for internal updates by tourism staff
• Integration of booking systems and other third-party tools
• Microsite capabilities
• Customer Relationship Management software
• Seamless integration with Google Analytics
- Content Migration
• Seamless migration of existing content and listings, blogs, media, reports, and tourism resources
• Ensure preservation of existing SEO value and backlinks from current domains
- Performance Monitoring and Digital Assistance
• Monthly printed digital marketing reports including:
o SEO performance (organic traffic summary, page performance, listings, events,
o Partner listing referrals
o SEO recommendations
• Monthly status calls to review report and suggestions to improve SEO performance
• Crawl error checks and corrections
• Monthly audit of pages/blogs for SEO optimization
- Internationalization
• If applicable, the website should support multilingual content with: Hreflang tags for language targeting, SEO friendly URL structures for each language, and prevention of duplicate indexing across translations.
- The website must comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA to ensure usability for individuals with disabilities.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: January 5, 2026
