Press Release: hotelguide.com
September 4, 2001
LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND -- hotelguide.com, one of the world's largest online accommodation broker with a listing of
over 65,000 hotels in 200 countries, announces the re-launch of its web site. The primary drive behind the re-launch
is the introduction of new features to the site making it more customer friendly whilst paving the way for the
introduction of a new flexible reservations system.
"The re-launch represents a great many changes to hotelguide.com," says Daniel Vogel, Vice-President
of Marketing at hotelguide.com. "Not only will the new look and layout make surfing through hotelguide.com
simpler, but the refurbished search facilities combined with our wide availability check will ensure our hotel
partners are more swiftly linked with 'ready to travel' customers."
Among the improvements are search options allowing deeper geographic interrogation, wide availability search, and
a new, personalized traveler service where visitors may become registered - to keep them up to date with hotelguide.com
changes and take advantage of special offers. The company continues to offer value-added services such as real-time,
secure on-line bookings, multiple language options, up to 60 possible search criteria, currency converter and detailed
maps. Together with the latest enhancements, hotelguide.com visitors have all the tools to narrow their hotel search
even further than before.
The re-launch is also a pre-cursor to the company's technological advances in delivering a new flexible reservation
system. The new system is pre-designed to interface with multiple reservation systems (GDS, Switch, CRS) and will
see a rapid increase in the number of online bookable hotels available at hotelguide.com to over 53,000. With the
new design in place, new elements of the system will be integrated swiftly over the coming months.
Daniel Vogel adds, "our vision is simple - to become the most comprehensive and powerful accommodation broker
within the electronic and mobile environments worldwide. The hotelguide.com name already has a strong resonance
in these sectors and we believe these developments will put us well on the road to realizing our goal."
About hotelguide.com
hotelguide.com is one of the world's most comprehensive and powerful accommodation brokers within the electronic
and mobile commerce environments.
The hotel database consists of more than 65'000 hotels in 200 countries worldwide. The web site offers business
and leisure travelers, travel agents and corporate travel planners secure online reservations, detailed hotel information,
geo-mapping, currency converter, weather report, and an affiliate program. In addition to extensive US, Asian and
South American listings, hotelguide.com's European listings are unmatched on the web.
hotelguide.com has also been at the forefront of Mobile Internet technology actively establishing partnerships
with global Telco's, mobile phone manufacturers and wireless operators worldwide.
hotelguide.com was established in 1991 (formerly The Hotel Guide) and is based in Sursee/Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Contact:
Daniel Vogel +41 41 925 1570 daniel.vogel@hotelguide.com Ruth Hyde +41 41 925 15 68 ruth.hyde@hotelguide.com