Hotel.de AG : hotel.info launches its new iPad App with added features to help travellers

hotel.info launches its new iPad App with added features to help travellers

hotel.info, the free online hotel reservation service for more than 210,000 hotels worldwide, has unveiled an English language version of its popular iPad App, offering a host of great features for users. As well as comparing hotels by price range or rating, users of the App will also be able to narrow their search to a particular vicinity - even down to hotels available around an address or landmark - especially useful for those travelling for business or leisure.

The App also gives users the option to take a virtual trip to the most frequently booked destinations via a global map, check out weather forecast information for their chosen destination and view the very latest travel advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Warini Munshi, International Business Development Director at hotel.info commented: 'The hotel.info iPad App not only enables an online hotel reservation to be made in very few steps, but it also offers many innovative services and entertaining features including an interactive selection table and a 'hotel duel.' Using the App on a tablet in this way means that a hotel booking becomes a real experience.'

The App, originally launched in hotel.info's home market of Germany, has now been rolled out across Europe, with dedicated versions also available in Spanish, French and Italian.

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About hotel.info

www.hotel.info is a hotel reservation service for business and private customers offered free of charge. The service offers more than 210,000 hotels for electronic bookings around the world. Customers booking via hotel.info achieve significantly better prices in comparison with other booking channels. In addition, hotel.info shows all available room prices for each hotel, so that the customer can always select the cheapest or most suitable room price. All bookings via hotel.info are transferred simultaneously, securely and directly to the respective hotel's computer. This guarantees the unique integration of each hotel's own reservation system so-called CRS or PMS and hotel.de's own reservation system myRES into the hotel.info unified user interface.

Using the experience of other hotel guests, customers seeking hotel rooms can base their decisions to book a room not only on the core information such as room price and hotel facilities, but also on the more than 1.5 million hotel evaluations and ratings submitted by hundreds of thousands of hotel guests from around the world. Compared with existing rating portals, hotel.info customers can rely on 100% genuine hotel ratings, since only customers who have booked and recently stayed in each hotel are asked for their opinion. hotel.info, the international brand of hotel.de AG, has been created in order to expand in markets in other countries. To acquire new customers and hotels abroad, offices in the UK (London), France (Paris), Spain (Barcelona), Italy (Rome), China (Shanghai) and Singapore have already been opened. The high percentage of international business travellers facilitates the Company's entry into new markets. The aim is to establish hotel.info as the leading online hotel reservation service for business as well as private customers.