Pakistan Tourism Awards
A national awards programme for Pakistan's tourism industry, from public nominations to published winners.
- Live since September 2026, taking nominations for 2027.
- September 2026
- Live website and nomination system
What it is
Pakistan has the mountains, the 5,000-year-old cities and the hospitality, but no consistent national way of saying who is doing tourism well. The Pakistan Tourism Awards is an independent programme built to do that: fifteen criteria-based categories covering destinations, experiences, hospitality and the people behind them.
The site has to do three jobs at once. Explain the categories and how entrants will be judged, take nominations from anyone without a fee or an account, and publish destination guides good enough that people arrive for those alone.
An independent programme, not a government body. It has no ministry affiliation, and the site says so.
The product itself
Captured from a build of the app, not mocked up for this page.
Fifteen categories, each with its eligibility rules and assessment areas published in full. 
Nominations are free, open to anyone, and six short steps that save as you go.
What shipped
Free public nominations, in six steps
Anyone can nominate, including their own organisation. A multi-step form saves progress on the device as you go, takes supporting images, and writes each entry to storage the web server can't serve, with an email notification to the organisers. The flow is covered by 44 automated tests and was verified end to end on the live host.
Fifteen categories, with the criteria published
Each award has its own page setting out eligibility and what the judges assess, published in full before entries open, so nobody enters blind.
Seventeen destination guides
Guides to Hunza, K2, Skardu, Deosai, Lahore, Mohenjo-daro, Makran and more, written as the reason a visitor stays on the site rather than filler around the awards.
A photograph pipeline that keeps its paperwork
Destination photographs are re-encoded to AVIF and WebP at several sizes with hash-versioned URLs, and every image keeps its photographer and licence in a credits ledger published at /image-credits.
Nominee and winner pages that stay empty
Both are built and wired, and show nothing until there are real entries and real winners. An awards site that pads those pages has nothing left worth winning.
Push-to-deploy with a live check
Every push runs lint, build and a content-completeness check, mirrors the site to the host over SSH, then smoke-tests the live pages. A run isn't green until the deployed site answers.
The calls behind it
A static site with two small endpoints, not an application.
Forty-six pages of the site are just pages, and only the nomination and contact forms need a server. Static export plus two PHP endpoints runs on inexpensive shared hosting and stays fast on a slow connection, which matters for the audience.
Entries land outside the web root.
A public upload form pointed at a public folder is how nomination files end up in search results. Entries and their images are written above the web root, where the server has no route to them.
The visual identity is drawn, not photographed.
Truck art is the most recognisable design language in the country, so the embossed bands, swinging fringe and enamel roundels are original SVG. It gives the programme something of its own that no stock photograph could.
What it's made of
- Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4
- GSAP with ScrollTrigger, Lenis smooth scroll, three.js for depth parallax
- sharp, to AVIF and WebP at multiple sizes with hash-versioned URLs
- Static export with two PHP endpoints, on shared hosting
- GitHub Actions: lint, build, content check, deploy over SSH, live smoke test
Built in-house by MVP Ninja. The same team, the same way of working, and the same web applications work we do for founders.