Hamburger Ferienpass
A Digital Platform for Holiday Fun and Learning in Hamburg

The print version of the Hamburg Holiday Pass no longer met the requirements of a modern information medium. It was not possible to react to changes such as postponements, event cancellations or remaining places. For this reason, the popular Hamburg Holiday Pass was to be published in digital form.

The requirement for Sitegeist was to provide a user-friendly CMS in which vacation offers can be systematically recorded by creating profile pages. In addition, CMS was to support an approval process and offer scope for the user's own editorial content.

The aim of the project should be to provide children, young people and parents with a website where they can find out about the extensive range of activities on offer as well as current dates and developments. A search or filtering function should make it easier to find the right offer.

For the providers of the offers, the website should offer the opportunity to present themselves and their offers free of charge and comprehensively.

In a second step, Sitegeist should create an interface in which the providers of the courses can enter and change them themselves without having to have access to Neos. The editors of the Department for Schools and Education then wanted to release and publish these courses on CMS after a review.

On the ferienpass-hamburg.de website, the vacation pass, which was previously only available in paper form, can now also be viewed in digital form.

A filter bar allows users to filter the courses on offer according to various criteria in order to find the offer that suits them more quickly. They can filter by categories, age groups, vacations, districts or costs, for example.

A list of results then shows all the courses on offer. On a further detailed page for each course, information on the dates, costs and location is displayed. All contact details are displayed here for the user to register for the event if required.

In the first phase, all courses were maintained manually by the editorial team of the Department of Schools & Education at CMS Neos . There should be an optimized solution for this manual process in a 2nd phase.

After this 2nd phase, the course providers can now enter their courses in their own account in the "Course administration". The "course administration" is a separate interface with a login area that is separate from Neos.

The courses are then transferred to Neos and after the editorial team has checked them again, they are activated in Neos. This reduces the manual workload for the editors enormously and the courses are all entered and editable in Neos.

This makes things easier for the Department for Schools & Education and course providers alike.