Hotels.com Moves Into Mobile
The Online Travel Agency Supports its Growing Mobile Bookings with Smartphone Applications for iPhone and Android
DALLAS, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hotels.com®, the world's leading hotel booking website, has launched two new smart phone applications for iPhone and Android. With mobile bookings continuing to increase exponentially, hotels.com developed proprietary smartphone apps to make hotel search easy, quick, and efficient while on-the-go.
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Smartphone users can search and book more than 20,000 last minute deals and search from over 135,000 hotels around the world on the hotels.com mobile booking apps. Available in more than 30 languages, the apps allow users to sort and filter hotels, browse over two million user reviews, and find last minute hotel deals close to their locations.
As mobile technology continues to evolve, hotels.com continues to create leading technology to support the changing habits of their customers. "We want to be where our customers are," said Victor Owens, vice president of marketing, hotels.com North America. "As the technology changes, it is important that we grow and change with it. We want to make it easy for our customers to book rooms when they are traveling or on-the-go. These mobile applications achieve this in a simple way."
Users can book as a "guest" booker or create a mobile hotels.com account from inside the app. The "sign in once" feature remembers the email and password, which makes future sign-ins seamless. In addition to the new mobile apps, hotels.com fans can begin their hotels.com digital experience at the hotels.com Facebook page, or with hotels.com on twitter at @hotelsdotcom, where fans and followers will receive exclusive offers on travel deals.
About hotels.com
Hotels.com® is a leading provider of lodging worldwide, offering more than 135,000 properties in over 60 countries from national chain hotels and all-inclusive resorts to local favorites and bed & breakfasts. Hotels.com is the smarter way to book travel by offering welcomerewards®, an industry leading loyalty rewards program; the real opinions of other travelers captured in more than two million Guest Reviews and; a Price Match Guarantee, so that those booking with hotels.com can be assured they are getting the best deal, either online or by speaking directly to a travel expert at 1-800-2-HOTELS 24 hours a day. For more information, please visit hotels.com. Hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE). Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/hotelsdotcom and Twitter via www.twitter.com/hotelsdotcom or visit the hotels.com Travel Smart Blog for consumer and business travel information. Get clayed at http://www.clayyourself.com. Detailed Hotel Price Index data is available at: http://www.hotel-price-index.com, hotels.com, A Smarter Way to Book™.
Hotels.com and the hotels.com logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of hotels.com, LP. Other logos or products and company names mentioned herein may be the property of their respective owners © 2011 hotels.com, LP. All rights reserved. CST # 2083949-50
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Meghan Callaghan – Ruder Finn for hotels.com
Phone: (212) 715-1608
Email: [email protected]
Taylor L. Cole, APR
hotels.com North America
Phone: (469) 335-8442
SOURCE Hotels.com
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