Hotel booking tool launched with GPS integration

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Hotelzon, a corporate hotel online booking company, has launched a native S60 search and booking tool, Hotelzon Mobile, with GPS integration. All very swish, and well implemented, if a little over the top for something with less than 300 UK hotels in its portfolio. Still, a good effort, and a pointer, for others, as to the way things should be done in the future. Screenshots and links below.

Hotelzon screenshot  Hotelzon screenshot  Hotelzon screenshot 

The application offers a 'GPS search' which uses your current position, provided by GPS, to show the hotels nearest to you. The quick and advanced search options offer a more traditional approach; it allows you to find hotels by city or country or a free text query. You can also access current reservations in he 'My reservations' portion of the application.

Hotelzon screenshot  Hotelzon screenshot

Once you have found a suitable hotel you can make a reservation from within the application.


Linksand press release

Hotelzon home page , Hotelzon Mobile download link.

Here's an extract from the press release:

Hotelzon UK (www.hotelzon.co.uk), one of the UK’s leading corporate hotel online booking companies announces today that it has introduced an innovative mobile phone hotel booking application software allowing smartphone users to achieve real-time hotel booking.

The new Hotelzon mobile phone service sets a new standard for mobile hotel booking, enabling users to search, book, view and cancel their hotel room reservations anywhere and anytime.

Olli Juvonen, Managing Director of Hotelzon UK, commented:

 “Hotelzon’s new mobile phone service will transform the way business travelers’ book hotels. Armed with a powerful mobile application, business travelers with smartphones are now able to book a hotel whenever and wherever they are.   More than one million hotel room nights were booked last year through our Hotelzon online service and we are glad to expand our offering to mobile phone users to meet the global needs of the modern business traveler, so no matter where you are, this system will find the nearest and best available accommodation and book it.”

Hotelzon’s mobile phone service is a fast and easy booking service.  It is available in 5 different languages and provides access to more than 90.000 hotels worldwide covering 150 countries and more than 20.000 cities.

(via Ricky Cadden)