Booking.com Revealed as No. 1 in Hotel Availability This Christmas by HotelsCombined.Research by HotelsCombined.com across Eight Popular Travel Websites Finds Booking.com to Have the Most Available Hotels This Christmas Christmas [Christ's Mass], in the Christian calendar, feast of the nativity of Jesus, celebrated in Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches on Dec. 25. In liturgical importance it ranks after Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany (Jan. 6). SYDNEY Sydney, city, Australia Sydney, city (1991 pop. 3,097,956), capital of New South Wales, SE Australia, surrounding Port Jackson inlet on the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is Australia's largest city, chief port, and main cultural and industrial center. , Australia Australia (ôstrāl`yə), smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary state (2005 est. pop. -- Planning your Christmas party or a romantic Christmas Eve dinner with an overnight hotel stay can be hindered by not finding any available hotel rooms over Christmas. Many hotel reservation websites offer hotels, packages and special deals for Christmas, but how many actually have available rooms for the most important date on the calendar? In research conducted by HotelsCombined.com this week, the following eight leading travel sites were compared for hotel availability over Christmas: Booking.com, Gtahotels.com, HotelClub.com, Hotwire.com Hotwire.com™ is a discount travel site offering low rates on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages by working with travel suppliers to sell excess inventory. , Lastminute.com, Laterooms.com, Priceline.com (priceline.com Incorporated, Norwalk, CT, www.priceline.com) A Web-based travel shopping site launched in 1998 where buyers submit the price they are willing to pay for airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and rental cars. and Opodo.co.uk.(1) HotelsCombined.com compared the number of available hotels returned by these sites for the world's ten most visited cities: Paris, Barcelona, London, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Beijing, Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi , Rome, Istanbul, Frankfurt and Moscow. Booking.com topped the list with a total of 2,394 available hotels across ten cities, providing substantially more availability than the other seven websites, despite not having any available hotels for Moscow. HotelClub.com came second and GTAhotels.com third with a total of 1,591 and 1,582 available hotels respectively. To see the complete statistics including the number of available hotels returned by each site for each city, go to: http://www.hotelscombined.com/AboutUs/Press/Christmas2007.aspx Michael Doubinski, Business Development Manager of HotelsCombined.com, said, "HotelsCombined.com lets consumers search over thirty top hotel sites at once, enabling them to find more availability and better prices. We compare many big brands such as Lastminute.com, Hotel.de, HotelClub.com and OctopusTravel.com, and we continue to add more hotels everyday through our partnerships with suppliers." (1) The survey counts hotels which have at least one room available for instant online reservation for the stay starting 24th to 25th December (Christmas Eve to Christmas Day). About HotelsCombined (www.hotelscombined.com): HotelsCombined.com is a hotel search engine that helps consumers to compare hotel rates from multiple travel websites. They search and compare hotel offers and deals across all major hotel reservation websites, which are searched directly and in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. to show up-to the minute pricing and availability. HotelsCombined.com is based in Sydney and established in 2005 by former executives of HotelClub.com and RatesToGo.com. For more information, please visit www.hotelscombined.com. |
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