Hotels.com Offers Travellers 100,000 Properties As Part Of Continued
Global Growth
Released
on: May 12, 2009, 4:29 am
Author: Hotels.com
Industry: Travel
Hotels.com,
the leading hotel booking website, has announced an increase to
the number of properties it offers through its sites, passing
100,000 for the first time.
The
extra properties which have been added to the company's portfolio
come as the business is both broadening and deepening its range.
The main areas of recent expansion have seen substantial additions
being made to the numbers of smaller, family-run hotels in European
holiday destinations (particularly in Italy with hotels
in Rome and Southern France) as Hotels.com grows beyond its
already strong city-break availability.
Nigel
Pocklington, Hotels.com, said: "As a business, we are focused
on growing despite difficult market conditions. We will continue
to gain share in those markets where we already operate and offering
a wider range of properties across city break, summer and winter
leisure and business markets is the bedrock of this. At the same
time, we have ambitions to go into new country markets around
the world and getting our product offer right, by attracting as
broad a range of hotels as possible, will be key."
There
have also been significant numbers of properties added in developing
markets including some of the newer Middle East destinations,
Southern Asia, China, India, South America and Southern Africa.
This has meant that U.S and European travellers have been able
to access a wider range of hotels in these markets as leisure
trips increase to further-flung destinations. The growth has also
come as Hotels.com launches stand-alone, local-market websites
in the Middle East, India, and other parts of Asia Pacific.
Nigel
Pocklington added: "As hoteliers around the world have struggled
to maintain occupancy, they have come to see Hotels.com as an
excellent way to reach millions of travellers around the world.
So we think that now is the time to recruit new suppliers, positioning
ourselves for continued expansion in online bookings."
As
Hotels.com has added to the number of hotels which customers can
choose from, it has also widened the range of tools being made
available to help them make the right choice. These include the
addition of TripAdvisor, hotel reviews, photographs and more detailed
descriptions, which not only cover hotel features and location,
but also provide 'expert tips' on things to do in the local area.
Notes to editors
About
Hotels.com
As part of the Expedia group which operates in all major markets
with dedicated staff, Hotels.com offers more than 100,000 quality
hotels worldwide, including hotels
in New York, hotels
in Dublin and hotels
in London. If a customer can find the same deal for less on
a prepaid hotel, Hotels.com will match it. Hotels.com benefits
from one of the largest hotel contracting teams in the industry
negotiating the best rates for its users, plus user-contributed
reviews of its properties. Travellers can book online or by contacting
one of the multi-lingual call centres.
Hotels.com
PR contact:
Cordy Griffiths
PR Manager
Hotels.com
42 Earlham St
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9LA
020 7019 2360
www.hotels.co.uk