iSite.lk is a tourism booking platform for travellers exploring Sri Lanka. W3S Solutions designed and built the iSite native mobile app - a fast, on-the-go companion that lets visitors browse day tours, food tours, hotels and activities, check real-time availability for a chosen date, complete a full booking and pay securely by card without ever leaving the app.
Built as a cross-platform app for Android and iOS on the Ionic and Angular framework with a REST API back end, Firebase push notifications and offline support, iSite turns a traditional, agent-led tour-booking process into a self-service experience a traveller can finish in minutes from a beach, a hotel lobby or a tuk-tuk.
Sri Lanka's tourism is mobile-first - visitors plan and decide on the move. But the conventional way of booking tours and experiences kept getting in their way, and it cost operators bookings they should have won:
Booking meant emails, phone calls or walking into a travel desk Travellers couldn't see what was actually available on their date Paying often meant carrying cash or sharing card details over email Slow back-and-forth confirmations lost impulse and last-minute bookings Tours, hotels and activities were scattered across different channels No direct line to re-engage past visitors with new offersiSite didn't need "a brochure app." It needed to be a complete pocket booking office - discover, reserve and pay in one flow. That's what we built.
Four simple steps take a traveller from inspiration to a confirmed, paid-for tour - without a single phone call or email.
Browse a live catalogue of day tours, food tours, hotels and activities across Sri Lanka.
Pick your dates and party size and see real-time availability with the live price calculated instantly.
Pay with Visa or Mastercard right inside the app, with live card-type detection and validation.
Your booking is confirmed on the spot and a push notification lands straight on your phone.
iSite gives travellers a guided path from inspiration to confirmation. They browse a live catalogue of tours and experiences, pick a date and the number of adults and children, and the app checks availability and prices the trip in real time.
From there it's a smooth, step-by-step flow - review the package, enter billing details, and confirm - with everything pulled from a central system so prices, availability and confirmations are always accurate and instant.
Firebase Cloud Messaging keeps a direct line to travellers - booking updates, reminders and new tour offers delivered straight to their phone.
Smart image caching, offline detection and one-tap call-to-book keep the app usable on patchy connections while travelling around the island.
A single Ionic and Angular codebase delivers a fast, consistent native experience to every traveller, on both Android and iOS.
The payment step is where most tourism apps fall down - iSite makes it the easy part. Travellers enter their Visa or Mastercard, the app validates the card type live, processes the payment through a secure gateway and returns an instant transaction confirmation, all inside the same booking flow.
Built on Ionic and Angular as a single codebase for Android and iOS, talking to a dedicated REST API, the app delivers a native experience that's fast, secure and consistent on every device.
iSite turned a slow, agent-dependent booking process into a self-service mobile experience - letting travellers discover, reserve and pay for Sri Lankan tours in minutes, day or night.
Travellers book and pay 24/7 without calls, emails or travel desks Real-time availability captures impulse and last-minute bookings Secure in-app card payments replace cash and risky email transfers Tours, hotels and activities unified in one branded app Push notifications keep a direct channel to re-engage past visitors One codebase serving both Android and iOS travellers
