December 31, 2008: Travelta, a company in online travel solutions in the Netherlands, announces the world´s first location-based hotel finder for mobile phones at www.travelta.mobi. This mobile website allows users to find and book the nearest available hotels based on their GPS or Cell-ID location.
In addition users are informed about availability of room type, pricing, check-in and check-out times, hotel images and star classification. The mobile user can easily book the room by calling an (inter)national number quoting the provided reference number.
The unique combination of location detection and hotel availability can be used on any Windows Mobile or Android based mobile device. For additional platforms like Symbian and BlackBerry manual search can be used, which supports street, city or building input.
Today, the mobile service searches 80,000 hotels worldwide, more hotels are added daily.
