Polish mobile solutions firm Psiloc has added a hotel bookings plug-in to its flagship mobile travel platform, World Traveler, thanks to a newly-signed agreement with Finnish mobile hotel bookings company Hotelzon. Hotelzon is ranked as the largest mobile hotel stay provider, with access to booking more than 90,000 hotels world-wide through their mobile phone application. With a corporate client base exceeding 15,000 corporate organizations, Hotelzon has more than 100,000 mobile users. Theres a location-based element to the solution, as travellers are able to scan their immediate area for available hotels, even if they do not know their exact location.
The new hotel bookings plug-in, which will be marketed under the Hotelzon name, will allow you to search for, find availability and book a hotel stay either by location, hotel category or length of stay, all through your mobile phone, says Psiloc Founder, Marek Filipiak. But for the traveller who suddenly gets stuck with nowhere to stay, the search option can be switched to location by GPS, which then automatically checks all hotels in the immediate vicinity. We consider this a key step forward in the development of our World Traveler product.
The introduction of the mobile booking facility follows the recent addition of a Flight Assistant plug-in, which enables travellers to search for and book flights, and also alerts them to any flight status changes. World Traveler also enables users to check the time in multiple time zones, as well as the currency exchange rates and the weather for a users destination. The application currently has more than 1.5 million users worldwide.
World Traveler users can download the plug-in by either going to the plug-in manager within the World Traveler application, or by visiting Psilocs www.worldtraveler.biz website.