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Hi Kultur
Travel Marketplace · WordPress

Hi Kultur

An in-development travel marketplace for private tours and trusted local guides.

ServicesProduct Strategy · Marketplace UX
Year2026
DurationIn progress
RoleUI/UX Design · Development
01 About the project

Hi Kultur is a custom WordPress travel-marketplace platform in development. It brings destinations, private tours, local-guide profiles, booking requests, messaging, confirmations, and moderated reviews into one connected experience.

Trust is part of the product flow

Travel marketplaces need more than attractive destination cards. Guide identity, booking context, communication, payment state, confirmation, and review eligibility all need to remain connected. I designed the information and interaction model around that full journey.

Presented honestly as work in progress

The public site currently includes prototype and sample content while the platform is being developed. This case study describes the implemented product foundation and deliberately avoids claiming live booking volume, verified-review volume, user growth, or commercial results.

02 Project highlights
01
Challenge

A tour listing is easy; a trustworthy marketplace journey is not.

Travellers, guides, bookings, messages, payments, confirmations, and reviews create interdependent states. The interface and data model needed to keep that context understandable for both sides and for administrators.

Two-sidedTraveller and guide journey
02
Solution

Build the marketplace around the complete relationship.

I connected structured tour and destination content with guide profiles, booking requests, internal messaging, status-aware dashboards, guide verification, two-sided confirmation, and moderated review eligibility.

Status-awareConnected marketplace flow
03
Outcome

A credible product foundation ready for continued development.

Hi Kultur has a custom, admin-manageable WordPress foundation for marketplace content and core trust workflows. It is described as in development until real operational results can be verified.

In progressHonest product status
03 Inside the process

Trust designed into the complete marketplace flow.

The work treats identity, booking context, communication, confirmation, and review eligibility as connected product states rather than isolated pages.

Marketplace content model

Connected destinations, tours, guide profiles, and discovery around structured WordPress content.

Booking pipeline

Designed requests, status changes, and dashboards so both sides can understand what happens next.

Protected messaging

Kept traveller and guide communication connected to the relevant booking context.

Trust and review flow

Linked verification, two-sided confirmation, and moderated review eligibility.

Hi Kultur
Marketplace model
Two-sided

Traveller and guide needs are represented throughout the product journey.

Booking flow
Status-aware

Requests, progress, and next steps remain explicit in the interface.

Communication
Protected

Messages stay connected to the people and booking they belong to.

Trust system
Moderated

Confirmation and review eligibility support a more credible marketplace foundation.