WordPress websites for tour operators

Home to Africa: Rebuilding a Safari Operator's Website From the Ground Up

Home to Africa is a Kampala-based tour company specialising in tailor-made trips across Uganda and the wider East Africa region, operating since 2012. Their website had reached the point where it couldn't be updated at all. I rebuilt it on WordPress, restructured their tours, added new landing pages, and handed back a site their own team can run.

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Home to Africa tour operator website homepage, designed by Tour Operator Sites

Rated 5 stars on Google

2 months

From first build to launch

July 2026

New site launched

30+

Safari and gorilla tours rebuilt

A website nobody could work on

Elias, who runs Home to Africa, originally got in touch about some content updates. Once I got into the site, it was clear that wasn’t possible.

Two conflicting page builders
Installed side by side and fighting each other, so editing almost any page risked breaking it.

Expired premium plugins
Installed by a previous developer with every licence lapsed. No updates in two to three years, and no way to run them.

That’s a security risk, and a dead end for any new work. Patching it would have meant paying to prop up a site that would keep breaking, so I recommended a full rebuild and Elias agreed.

His brief was simple: a website that works and can be used going forward.

Project overview

Client
Home to Africa Tours and Travel

Location
Kampala, Uganda

Services
Full website rebuild, tour restructure, new landing pages, redirects

Platform
WordPress, TravelTour theme

Bookings
Enquiry-led, tailor-made trips

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A clean rebuild, organised around how travellers search

A clean WordPress rebuild on TravelTour

Rebuilt on TravelTour, a WordPress theme made for tour operators. One page builder instead of two, and every plugin licensed and updatable.

30+ safari and gorilla tours, rebuilt

Every tour page rebuilt from scratch, keeping the structure their team and returning visitors already knew: safaris and gorilla tours first, then by country.

New landing pages for the way travellers search

Travellers don’t only search by country. They search by the kind of trip they want, so each specialist trip style now has its own page instead of being buried in general safari listings.

An enquiry-led site for tailor-made trips

Every trip is tailor-made, so the site is built to generate enquiries, not instant bookings. Tours lead to enquiry forms so the team can shape each trip around the traveller.

Redirects to protect search rankings

Every old URL redirected to its new equivalent, protecting the rankings and inbound links the old site had built up over the years.

A modern design

The old site looked its age. The new design is cleaner and more modern, built to showcase Home to Africa's destinations and experiences and make it easier for travellers to explore trips and enquire.

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Does your safari website have the same problems?

Two page builders, expired plugin licences and updates you can’t run are more common than you’d think, especially on sites built by a developer who has since moved on. Get in touch and see what we can do for you.