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Virgin Holidays Award Winning Website Designed, Built and Delivered by Zolv

Virgin Holidays website is a Winner at Travolution Awards 2008

Leeds based software design and web development company, Zolv, has demonstrated its ability to produce award winning work with a website designed by the company scooping Best Tour Operator Website at the Travolution Awards 2008.

The Travolution awards are the only awards dedicated to the online travel industry and recognise excellence in the development of travel websites. Zolv designed, built and delivered the Virgin Holidays website, which won the Best Tour Operator website category after demonstrating a dramatic improvement in web traffic and a 90% increase in sales conversions year-on-year.

The website was also judged on features such as functionality and overall user experience, as well as the originality of the design, and the success of the website within the market.

Zolv has worked with Virgin Holidays for six years and has developed a strong and trusted working relationship over that time.

Chris Roe of Virgin Holidays said: "We are delighted to have won this award as it is further evidence of how well the website is working. The online travel industry is highly competitive so it is vital that our website differentiates us from the competition. The website offers customers a user friendly but enjoyable experience when booking online, and the increase in sales we've enjoyed as a result of its development has been phenomenal."

Olly Wenn, Zolv managing director, said of the scheme: "We are very proud that our work on the Virgin Holidays site has been singled out for an award. The standard of entries was extremely high so winning the category is a real honour. We are delighted for the team at Virgin Holidays and look forward to working with them in the future."

Notes to editors

Zolv is a web development and software design company based in Leeds. Established in 2002 it was one of Deloitte's 'Rising Stars' in 2005. The company continues to do exceptional work, specialising in the travel and consumer arenas. It prides itself on the fact that none of its work is outsourced and it always delivers its projects on time and to budget.

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