Travel search site Kayak.com has made several enhancements to its hotel search offering.

Travel search site Kayak.com has made several enhancements to its hotel search offering.

Published: 18 Apr 2006

Travel search site Kayak.com has made several enhancements to its hotel search offering.

The site also shared that hotel inventory has surpassed 115,000 properties worldwide, “which is more than any other travel site, due to recent partnerships with booking engine vendors and suppliers and new hotels added through the “Every Hotel on Earth” programme”, according to an official release.

Kayak.com’s hotel search enhancements, together with sorting and filtering tools and Google Maps integration, make it the easiest place for travelers to find the right hotel for every trip, said Drew Patterson, Kayak.com director of business development.

“Plus, Kayak’s “Every Hotel on Earth” programme allows travelers to discover more hotels on Kayak.com than any other travel site so they can search with confidence knowing that we’ll show them properties unavailable elsewhere,” said Patterson.

Sharing info on hotel search enhancements on Kayak.com, it was stated that on the Hotel Home Page users can now pre-filter results from the hotel homepage. Dropdown menus have been added for hotel brands and price range; A brand dropdown menu displays only hotel brands found within the specified market.

On Hotel Results Page, it shared that a custom location link allows users to search hotels by proximity to a specific address such as a client’s office or a relative’s house. Feature is currently limited to US addresses; Further integration with popular Google Map feature plots all hotel results on an interactive map. Map instantly refreshes as users interact with the sorting and filtering tools for price, stars, location, brand, amenities and property type; Additional information for each individual property has been added for
quick reference such as address, amenities and list of travel sites offering the hotel/price combination.

Under Hotel Details Page, booking details have been moved to the top of the page to better communicate the number of booking options for each property (supplier direct or through an online travel agency); The details page has been organized into tabs for Overview, Details, Map, and Photos.

Since launching the “Every Hotel on Earth” commitment in October, Kayak.com has added more than 25,000 properties following its recent partnerships with booking engine providers Pegasus Solutions and Otedis and new supplier agreements with HostelWorld.com, Asiarooms.com and WRH Hotels Network. In addition, the EHOE program encourages users and hoteliers to add hotels directly to Kayak.com’s database and more than 5,200 properties have been added as a result.

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