Hi,
I am just arrived here and I would love to have an advice for my upcoming work.
I need to start to build a touristic portal and I am planning my work.
I will need to have articles with an introductory text and image followed by tabs with :
photo gallery,map, contact form and other info.
The most important thing will be to have an advanced search /filter in the homepage.
I will need to have the possibility to filter articles by different categories and criteria.

I saw that maybe building the portal with k2 and the search/filter module would be a good solution but I would love to have your advice and opinion .
If so ,I haven't used k2 before till now , can you give me the link to a quick start guide if possible?

Thanks in advance!

Hi
A tourism portal. Is this going to generate an income? If so it is likely that it will be centred around accommodation and visitor attractions.
Different types of accommodation have different priorities - hotels, guest houses etc charge by the night; self catering by the week or short breaks - maybe a minimum length of stay and maybe a start date.
Then there is on line booking, a large number of establishments now have their own systems and it is very difficult for a small business to operate more than one. The simplest system is to provide a link to the owners booking engine but this does remove a revenue opportunity.
Trip advisor links are becoming very popular.
Are businesses going to have access to the site? Will you have "offers & late availability" pages. I think you are right in saying that you need advanced search/filters. You might feel that is is appropriate to list businesses randomly but to maximise an income you might want to list them by such criteria as availability or grading.
Is the idea behind the site to keep the visitor within the site or to provide links to business web sites.
K2 will produce a site but you might want more flexibility there are joomla extensions for both real estate and reservation systems which can be found here.
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/vertical-markets
Of course accommodation might not feature on your site in which case the above is not very helpful!
Regards

Hi and thanks for your reply.
Well, we already use JOMRES in one other portal ( not build by me).
This one has to be simpler though , and without booking on line.
The most important things are a nice and useful page for the accomodation , a well done categorization and the search filter in home page.
What do you suggest for this last one?
I am right thinking in the k2 search and filter module?
I never used k2 beofre , can you provide me a quick guide link for beginner?

Thank you very much!

Hi
A quick guide to K2
www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/k2/
www.ostraining.com/blog/joomla/k2-part2/
I would also look at something like SobiPro extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directo...tion/directory/16649
There are many extensions for this so I am sure you would have more control with searching/filtering.