DALLAS, June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- hotels.com(R), the experts in
booking hotels online, today announced that their hotel rooms and rates are
now available on Sprint Vision phones. This is the first time consumers can
access and book online travel site offerings via their mobile phones,
developed with Sprint (NYSE: S), an industry leader in advanced wireless
data services, and OpenMotion, a leading mobile publisher of information
content.
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Sprint Vision customers can access the hotels.com travel site on their
phones by simply choosing "web", then selecting "find it/travel." This real
time access allows them to view more than 70,000 hotels, vacation rentals
and bed & breakfasts. To book, customers click on the "book it" icon and
are routed through the booking process to complete the transaction.
"With this new offering, hotels.com customers can find hotel deals and
book rooms on their Sprint mobile phones with many of the features
consumers have on the website," said Scott Booker, vice president of
Customer Marketing for hotels.com. "This includes sorting options, viewing
pictures of properties and instant access to their itineraries without the
need to print and carry the itinerary with them. The offering enables
hotels.com to enhance our expert position by empowering customers with a
free, powerful tool that is unique in the market."
This unique new offering broadens customer access to hotels.com
services through OpenMotion LLC's mobile distribution platform. "The
OpenMotion mobile platform integrates and delivers the hotels.com brand
seamlessly to mobile phones, and facilitates mcommerce by giving hotels.com
customers a secured way to reserve and pay for hotel rooms when they are on
the go," said Rob Deubell, president of OpenMotion LLC.
About hotels.com
hotels.com(R) is a leading provider of lodging worldwide, offering
reservation services through its own web sites (including
http://www.hotels.com and others), its interactive affiliate network
(http://www.IAN.com ), and its toll-free call centers (1-800-2-HOTELS).
hotels.com gives travelers one of the widest selections of lodging
accommodations from traditional hotels to vacation rentals at more than
70,000 properties worldwide. hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE).
About Sprint
Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than
51 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 65,000
employees worldwide and over $39 billion in annual revenues in 2005, Sprint
is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying
state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first
nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in all 50
states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and operates the largest
100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States.
For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com .
About OpenMotion
OpenMotion is a leading mobile publisher of information content
supporting to the worlds leading brands. Providing a combination of
technological and innovation expertise, OpenMotion is a preferred
information content provider to the wireless carriers, and major media
companies. ConnectNow(TM) by OpenMotion allows consumers to connect
directly to a merchant's telephone number from a wireless advertisement, or
search result.
Hotels.com and the Hotels.com logo are registered trademarks or
trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries of Hotels.com, LP, a
subsidiary of Hotels.com. Other logos or products and company names
mentioned herein may be the property of their respective owners.
For more information, press only:
Nanci Williams, hotels.com, 469-335-1528, nwilliams@hotels.com
Rob Deubell, OpenMotion, 513-792-4270, rdeubell@openmotion.com
SOURCE hotels.com
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http://www.hotels.com
http://www.IAN.com http://www.sprint.com
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CONTACT:
Nanci Williams of hotels.com,
+1-469-335-1528, or nwilliams@hotels.com ; or Rob Deubell of
OpenMotion LLC, +1-513-792-4270, or rdeubell@openmotion.com
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