We’ve recently had the pleasure of working with Evasion Travel, a small but fast growing activity holiday company based in France.  Evasion Travel began their journey to build their holiday business in 2006 when Adam and Annabel Breen began running holidays in the Ardeche region of France. They now offer guests the choice of several beautiful gites in the Ardeche alongside the activity holidays, and offer their same personal service in winter to visitors in the ski resort of Courchevel, France.

Putting Evasion Travel on the map as a leading provider of France activity holidays, Scamper have completely redesigned their previous network of websites into one by employing a very friendly and navigable WordPress design for their website. Our objective was to not only communicate the huge amount of information that Evasion needs to present about summer holidays, winter holidays, activities, accommodation etc in a simple and easy to navigate design, but also to give the business a professional web presence that doesn’t lose the essence of their business of being personal, flexible and fun.

The site showcases two separately themed areas for summer and winter holidays, with many advanced features such as featured image galleries, multi-layered navigation, availability calendars, scrolling testimonials and more. And with its multi-lingual feature, you can browse it seamlessly in Dutch, German and French aswell as the default language of English.

The new Evasion Travel website is SEO-friendly and we’d like to think that we’ve managed to do justice to the great team at Evasion by giving them a really great travel website design.

Visit the Evasion Travel website and have a nosey around, and if you fancy a bit of adventure or relaxation then why not book in and enjoy their hospitality.  http://evasiontravel.co.uk/

The recently launched Luxe Wedding Photography Website serves as a portfolio and brochure where clients can take a sneak peak at the hospitality offered by senior consultant Campion and the masterful shots made by Wood and his team of expert wedding photographers.

Expertly captured moments and emotions are just among the promises Wood and his team can deliver on the day you tie the knot. You can also be sure that behind the scenes every last detail is taken care of to ensure that everything from the style of your shots to the album design is always perfect.

Scamper have built a website that shows off what Luxe have to offer using yet another a great WordPress Design. Wood and Campion wanted a very friendly website that exudes class and elegance while also communicating their key sales messages and allow them to easily manage advanced features such as a photo portfolio and private galleries where each couple can log in and view their photos after the event.

The new Luxe Wedding Photography website boasts an SEO friendly design that is the perfect platform on which to grow their business.

Check out the new Luxe website now at http://luxeweddings.com.au/

Hotels Fairy uses a single installation of WordPress MU to create and control a network of hotel price comparison websites focussed on different destinations.  The main Hotels Fairy website http://hotels-fairy.com/ allows holiday makers to find details of all of the main hotels in their chosen destination, view availability, reviews and compare the room rates offered by over 30 of the web’s leading booking websites including Expedia, Lastminute.com, and Holiday Inn allowing them to make an informed decision about their preferred holiday booking site and ensuring that they get the best deal.

A series of micro-sites focussed on destinations including Newquay, Ambleside and Keswick provide more detailed tourist information, local news, featured hotels and tailed local search boxes to help the user get the most  and of the website and out of their visit to the destination.

Check out Scamper’s WordPress Design work and save yourself money on hotel bookings now at Hotels-fairy.com.

A question that we’re constantly faced with at Scamper is ‘What is ethical business?’.  We don’t believe that ethical business is limited to wind power and organic foods, but actually covers a wide range of business sectors and is in many ways more about attitude than anything else.

By taking a broader perspective to ethical business we can actually achieve much wider benefits and find more opportunities for social, environmental and financial profit.

Over the past few months we’ve been working with The Dedicated Gold Buyer, designing their brand identity, printed materials, retail graphics and website.  The high price of Gold has lead to a boom in gold trading recently, but Gold is not something that strikes you as the focus of a green or ethical business, especially considering environmental and social issues associated with gold mining.

However, if you stop to look at it objectively, The Dedicated Gold Buyer is probably one of the best examples of a green and ethical business you can find, because when you look under the skin, you realise that the entire business model is based on encouraging the recycling of unused gold.  Its a very simple concept:

1. You have old or broken gold jewellery that you no longer need.

2. The Dedicated Gold Buyer buy it from you.

The only real area that could raise ethical issues is whether consumers are offered a fair price for their gold, but The Dedicated Gold Buyer is committed to avoiding this issue by always offering fair market rates for the gold they purchase.  On top of that, they are actively involved in charitable fund-raising, have all their stationary and posters printed on FSC certified paper and provide a simple and easy way for people to make some money to help them through the recession.

The Dedicated Gold Buyer doe snot in anyway promote itself as a green business and some traditionalists may question why we’ve singled it out as an example, but the reason is simple:

Tackling social and environmental issues is about finding effective ways to met people’s needs while minimising our consumption of natural resources, rather than about looking stereo typically green.

The Dedicated Gold Buyer has done this by adding value to what would otherwise be a waste or redundant resource.  Hopefully, this example will inspire a few people to think outside the “green” box for business opportunities that are profitable for everyone.

Aged 18-25? Don’t miss out on the Fair Trade Event of the Year!

Join young people from around the world for a packed programme of Workshops, Speakers, Films, Panel Debate and a Samba Drumming Party (details below)

The International Youth for Fair Trade Conference is to be held at Coventry University from 8pm Friday 30 October to 5pm Sunday 1 November, 2009 and we would like to extend a warm invitation to you and hope that you will be able to circulate this invitation to your friends. You can book online for the conference to secure your place immediately (see below).

The Outline Programme

We have a very exciting programme including:

Hear from Experts:

· John Hilary, Executive Director, War on Want

· Barbara Crowther, Director of Communications & Policy, Fairtrade Foundation

See how Fairtrade changes the lives of people in the Developing World through a live link-up with Kuapa Kokoo, the Farming collective that supplies cocoa beans to Divine Chocolate

Samba Drumming Party on the Saturday night – showing how, when we together we can do something dramatic

Free chocolate – sample testing of Divine Chocolate and supermarket Fairtrade Teas and Coffee

Panel Debate

· Has Fair Trade been hijacked by multinationals?’

Workshops on:

· Taking Fair Trade to the next level – beyond Fairtrade University status

· “Eagle Meets Condor: Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Sustainability in the Andes of Ecuador.”

· Consuming Fashion, Discuss the increase in consumption of Fashion Products over the past decade, its impact (both ethical and sustainable) and how we might address these issues

· Make your own Fairtrade bath salts, perfume or after shave

· Brush up on your Campaigning Skills

· Learn from three youth projects that have made a difference in their local community’s knowledge of Fairtrade

· “Bare Tees” Create Fair Trade T Shirts to maximise the impact of your campaigns or reflect the maker’s personality

· Learn about setting up a Fair Trade social enterprise business

· Cotton on to Fairtrade: From the Issues to our Actions. The workshop will start with a discussion of the issues underlying Fairtrade focusing on the case study of cotton, then move on to a more interactive exploration of how we campaign for Fairtrade in our universities and communities in order to tip the balance of world trade in favour Fairtrade.

Travel

Coventry is at the heart of the Motorway and Rail networks and is also within easy reach of Birmingham International Airport.

Conference Pricing

Places on the conference will be issued on a first-come first-served basis and there is a limited number.

Places are great value at £18.40 but if you book by 16 Oct then you qualify for the Early Bird Rate of only £16.10. We can also provide basic hall floor accommodation (bring your own sleeping bag) for £5.75 a night for two nights and there are several low-cost hotels within easy walking distance of the conference venues. Prices are per person.

CLICK HERE TO BOOK NOW!

More Information

If you would like more information about this conference please contact David Williams on 024 7652 1265 or e-mail y4ft.coventry@gmail.com

The Project is Part-Funded by DFID and Sponsored by Coventry University and The Cooperative

Youth for Fair Trade is run by Coventry Cathedral in partnership with the Coventry Community Forum.

Contact: 024 7652 1265 or y4ft.coventry@gmail.com

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