hotelicopter Announces the Launch of hotelicopter To Go

Web site owners can now place detailed hotel content on their sites for free.

Charlottesville, VA – November 18, 2009 – hotelicopter (www.hotelicopter.com), the hotel search engine that helps travelers find the right hotel at the best available rate, launched its latest innovation this week. Going beyond what is currently available, hotelicopter now gives any web site owner the ability to publish detailed, interactive hotel content on their site for free.

hotelicopter, recently named the emerging hotel meta-search site by Piper Jaffray & Co., helps travelers find amazing hotel deals worldwide, including for Las Vegas hotels, Orlando hotels, Chicago hotels, Los Angeles hotels, and New York hotels..

hotelicopter To Go is the only way to get detailed hotel listings by location on your site. In three easy steps, site publishers can quickly enhance any travel- or event-related content they offer by adding hotel photos, star and user ratings, addresses, and average rates per night.

In a recent report, Phocuswright discovered that simple booking engine widgets do not add much value on content sites such as destination marketing organizations (DMOs). The report goes on to state that booking engine widgets are not used very much on DMO sites (Phocuswright Destination Marketing: Understanding the Role and Impact of Destination Marketers; June 2009).

hotelicopter will be on the Center Stage at the Phocuswright on November 19 along with Priceline CEO Jeffrey Boyd to talk about the future of online travel.

“We’re focused on improving the process of researching and booking hotels for travelers, on our search engine and all over the web,” Adam Healey, hotelicopter’s CEO said. “hotelicopter To Go allows us to share the ease of the booking experience on hotelicopter.com with any web site online, and the best part is that it’s totally free for publishers,” Healey continued.

Who can benefit from publishing this hotel information? It’s perfect for:

  • Web sites that publish articles about specific destinations
  • Bloggers focused on specific cities and travel topics
  • Event organizers who want to offer local hotel choices to attendees
  • Sports organizations
  • Family sites (weddings, reunions, parties, funerals, etc)
  • School web sites

To start building your own hotel card widget, visit h2go.hotelicopter.com and follow the very simple instructions.

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About hotelicopter
hotelicopter is a hotel search engine. We help you decide where to stay for your next trip, and where you can book it for the best available price. hotelicopter searches rates and availability from 30 leading travel sites and over 150,000 hotels worldwide. Founded in 2006, hotelicopter is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. For more information, please visit www.hotelicopter.com or email us at media [at] hotelicopter [dot] com.

Contact:
hotelicopter.com
Carl Schwartz
Chief Marketing Officer
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carl (at) hotelicopter (dot) com