Best Western has recently started offering GPS and online mapping service for its North American and Caribbean hotel locations.

Published: 18 May 2009

Best Western has recently started offering GPS and online mapping service for its North American and Caribbean hotel locations.

The company says it is the first hotel company to make all of its locations in the these two markets available for download to GPS devices from the www.bestwestern.com site, courtesy of leading GPS and online mapping site POIfriend.com.

“Customers will no longer have to rely solely on the pre-loaded data on their GPS devices,” said Karmela Gaffney, managing director of e-commerce and advertising for Best Western.

Through bestwestern.com and POIfriend.com, users can download an official listing of all North American and Caribbean Best Western hotel locations to the majority of GPS-enabled navigation devices.

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