Tourism platform·2026
Visit Almaty (NTA) — Almaty's tourism platform
Almaty's tourism showcase, live in pilot mode at nta.visitalmaty.kz: places, events, mountain trails, bookings and city transport — on one map and in 6 languages. The catalog holds 2,900+ places, out-of-town trails with distance, elevation gain and time, city guides, bookings for stays, tables, tours and tickets with no prepayment, scooters, taxis and car rental, plus a city wallet with cashback and partner discounts. Businesses can list and claim their own pages. Under the hood it is a multi-tenant AI-first marketplace on Fastify + tRPC and Next.js 15 with pgvector semantic search.
Next.jsFastifytRPCPrismaPostgreSQLpgvectorClaudei18n
Project goals
- Give visitors everything about the city in one place: places, events, trails, transport and bookings
- Make the platform accessible to foreign guests — 6 languages, including Hindi, Chinese and Arabic (RTL)
- Let local businesses list and claim their own pages
- Build in multi-tenancy so new cities and brands can launch on the same platform
Tasks
- Design a monorepo: a Fastify + tRPC v11 backend and a Next.js 15 frontend
- Import and normalize a catalog of 2,900+ places with categories and a map
- Build mountain trails with stops, distance, elevation gain and difficulty
- Implement bookings for stays, tables, tours and tickets with confirmation and no prepayment
- Integrate transport: scooters, taxis and car rental without a local phone number
- Design a city wallet: coins, 5% cashback and partner discounts
- Wire up PostgreSQL + pgvector for semantic search and Claude for translation and moderation
- Set up deployment via Docker Compose behind a Caddy reverse proxy on visitalmaty.kz
Results
Measurable performance indicators
- The platform is live in pilot mode at nta.visitalmaty.kz
- A catalog of 2,900+ places: nature, city, culture, wellness, outdoor and transport
- Mountain trails, city guides and bookings in a single interface
- 6 interface languages, including an RTL layout for Arabic
- A business dashboard: listing, page claiming and pricing plans
- A multi-tenant core ready to launch the next cities
Key metrics
Specific performance indicators of the project
2 900+
Places in catalog
6
Languages
45+
Data models
pgvector
Semantic search