Tourism
The Tourism module lets your community run a mini-site dedicated to visiting Jewish travelers passing through your city. It's the tool you use when your Beth Habad or synagogue regularly welcomes tourists, vacationing families, students on internship, or congregants visiting from another region for an event.
Where the Website module addresses your resident community, the Tourism module addresses people passing through: you publish the practical information they need (eruv, kosher places, accommodations, schedules, Beth Habad contacts, FAQ) and you open direct interaction channels: Shabbat registration, arrival announcement, chatbot.
What would you like to do?
The 5 entries of the Tourism sidebar
In the back office, the Tourism entry in the left sidebar opens five pages:
| Admin entry | Route | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Configuration | /app/travel/settings | Full mini-site setup across 12 tabs (colors, hero, FAQ, halakhic info, Beth Habad, integrations, chatbot, seasons…) |
| Kosher places | /app/travel/kosher | Directory of nearby restaurants, butchers, mikveh, kosher grocers |
| Accommodations | /app/travel/hotel | Directory of recommended hotels and guest houses, with Booking.com and Airbnb gateways |
| Shabbat | /app/travel/chabbat | Tourist registration for Shabbat meals and services |
| Tourists | /app/travel/journey | Arrival announcements: a visitor reports their arrival via the public form, you receive the request |
The tourism mini-site concept
When you configure a tourism site, Unisoft automatically publishes a dedicated public site, separate from your main community site. This site is designed to answer the concrete questions of a Jewish visitor arriving in your city:
- Where to pray? Service times, Beth Habad contact details, direct contacts.
- Where to eat kosher? Interactive map and detailed listings of kosher places.
- Where to sleep? List of partner accommodations + integrated Booking.com and Airbnb search.
- Is there an eruv? Halakhic information kept up to date by the community.
- How do I register for Shabbat? Online form connected directly to the host.
- How do I announce my arrival? A form that notifies the Beth Habad of an upcoming arrival.
The site has its own visual identity (colors, hero, fonts) and its own domain name if you want it. All information is multilingual: French and other languages enabled for your organization (English, Hebrew, etc.) — an essential asset for welcoming international visitors.
Several tourism sites for the same organization
A community can administer several tourism sites in parallel — typically when you cover several cities, neighborhoods, or when a main Beth Habad shelters several local branches. Each site keeps its own configuration, its own list of kosher places, its own tourism seasons.
All pages of the Tourism module start with a site selector in the top right. The choice is remembered from one session to the next so you always land on the site you work with most often.
For details, see the Multi-site page.
Multilingual
All textual content of the Tourism module (site title, hero slides, FAQ, descriptions, free-form hours, halakhic info…) is multilingual. The interface shows a language selector above the relevant fields. The visitor sees the language matching their browser preference — if the translation wasn't entered, French is used as a fallback.
This is particularly useful for tourism sites: an Israeli preparing a trip to Paris will consult the Hebrew version, an American the English version.
Getting-started best practices
- 1
Choose the site to work on
In the top right, select the tourism site you want to work on. If you only have one, it's selected by default.
- 2
Configure the visual identity
Open Configuration (
/app/travel/settings), Configuration tab. Choose primary and secondary colors, fill in the site's title and description (visible in search results), and the name you give your Beth Habad (« Synagogue », « Community center »…). - 3
Polish the home page
Home page tab. Add at least one hero slide (nice image, short title, subtitle, action button). This slide is the first thing visitors see.
- 4
Fill in the essential halakhic info
Tourist information tab. Indicate whether your city has an eruv (yes, no, partial) and add a comment if needed. This information is very frequently consulted by religious visitors.
- 5
List the kosher places
Open Kosher places (
/app/travel/kosher). Create your categories (Restaurant, Butcher, Mikveh, Grocer…) then add the places with photo, address, contacts and kashrut certification. - 6
Activate arrival announcement (optional)
Configuration → Tourism seasons tab → activate the « Show the Announce my arrival card on the home page » option. The first contact configured in the Beth Habad tab will be designated as host and notified on each new request.
- 7
Preview on the public site
Click the View live button at the top right of the configuration pages. You'll land on the mini-site, seen as a visitor would.
See also
- Configuration — the 12 mini-site setup tabs
- Multi-site — how to switch from one tourism site to another
- Kosher places — list restaurants, butchers and kosher places of worship