A rate tracking service to get the best hotel deal
Yapta.com has launched a new hotel price tracking service.
Published: 20 Mar 2009
Yapta.com has launched a new hotel price tracking service.
According to Yapta.com, an online travel shopping service, the new offering “for the first time will enable travellers to track and compare pricing on national and international hotel properties.”
“Unlike other opaque accommodation booking services such as Hotwire.com, which do not allow consumers to see the specific hotel property they are bidding on, Yapta enables travellers to designate the hotel they’re most interested in and then sign up to be automatically alerted when the rate drops,” stated the company.
“Hotel rates are highly volatile and can fluctuate on a day to day basis. Unfortunately, this ‘black box’ of pricing information has remained obscured to travelers who have little idea of when or in which direction pricing changes will occur,” said Tom Romary, co-founder and CEO of Yapta.com.
“By giving travelers a simple online tool by which to track hotel prices over time, they will have full price transparency and a much better understanding of what constitutes a good value.”
Some of the key features in the new hotel tracking service include:
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- Daily price checks – the lowest published rate of a tracked hotel. Creates a dynamic histogram that visually demonstrates the price of a given hotel property over time.
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- Daily price checks – the lowest published rate of a tracked hotel. Creates a dynamic histogram that visually demonstrates the price of a given hotel property over time.
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- Daily price checks – the lowest published rate of a tracked hotel. Creates a dynamic histogram that visually demonstrates the price of a given hotel property over time.
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- Daily price checks – the lowest published rate of a tracked hotel. Creates a dynamic histogram that visually demonstrates the price of a given hotel property over time.
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- Track and compare hotels – Allows users to track as many hotels as they would like in order to compare prices between similar hotels.
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- Track and compare hotels – Allows users to track as many hotels as they would like in order to compare prices between similar hotels.
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- Track and compare hotels – Allows users to track as many hotels as they would like in order to compare prices between similar hotels.
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- Track and compare hotels – Allows users to track as many hotels as they would like in order to compare prices between similar hotels.
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- Customised threshold & target alerts – Users can customise how often they are alerted to rate changes and set thresholds for these alerts (i.e., only alert if the price of a room drops by more than $20, etc.)
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- Customised threshold & target alerts – Users can customise how often they are alerted to rate changes and set thresholds for these alerts (i.e., only alert if the price of a room drops by more than $20, etc.)
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- Customised threshold & target alerts – Users can customise how often they are alerted to rate changes and set thresholds for these alerts (i.e., only alert if the price of a room drops by more than $20, etc.)
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- Customised threshold & target alerts – Users can customise how often they are alerted to rate changes and set thresholds for these alerts (i.e., only alert if the price of a room drops by more than $20, etc.)
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- Dynamic filters – Users can sort and search for hotels by several dynamic filters, including property rating (one thru five stars), price, amenities, and hotel brand.
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- Dynamic filters – Users can sort and search for hotels by several dynamic filters, including property rating (one thru five stars), price, amenities, and hotel brand.
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- Dynamic filters – Users can sort and search for hotels by several dynamic filters, including property rating (one thru five stars), price, amenities, and hotel brand.
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- Dynamic filters – Users can sort and search for hotels by several dynamic filters, including property rating (one thru five stars), price, amenities, and hotel brand.
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