The latest research shows that more consumers are turning to mobile travel sites and applications to access information, book flights and hotel rooms.
According to PhoCusWright, mobile bookings are likely to reach $160 million in 2010 alone. Sixty-seven percent of travellers and 77% of frequent business travellers with Web-enabled mobile devices have already used their devices to find local services (e.g. lodging) and attractions.

Hoteliers cannot afford to ignore this phenomenon and must quickly take action to benefit from this vast potential of new bookings and revenue. Companies that build effective mobile strategies will be in a prime position to lead the coming mobile revolution in travel.
To support its client hotels in this new exciting challenge, FastBooking proposes a global offering of mobile hotel booking services.

FastBooking Engine-Mobile

FastBooking has adapted the FastBooking Engine, the most efficient booking engine on the market, for use on mobile sites. It can be incorporated into a hotel's mobile site–whether that site is developed by FastBooking or by a web agency.
The FastBooking Engine-Mobile facilitates the users' mobile booking experience maximizing the conversion rate. The FastBooking Engine-Mobile delivers the same speed and security of the online hotel booking transaction as the FastBooking Engine for conventional hotel websites with a profile specifically for mobile phones. The consumer gets all the essentials of the process in a familiar booking environment.

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Mobile Site Creation

A mobile site, a fully functional website designed and optimized specifically for visioning on a mobile device, is just one option for extending your hotel’s online visibility and booking options to guests-on-the-go.
But hoteliers have to remember that the mobile Internet is not wireless access to the ‘conventional’ website. Mobile users demand sites that download quickly, provide short and concise textual content with no fluff, minimal visual content, and navigation that is straight to the point.
FastBooking has more than 10 years experience in creating successful e-commerce websites for the hospitality industry and use this know-how to develop hotel mobile sites specifically designed to enhance online bookings. These sites provide the user with an easy to navigate, fast, secure experience in the mobile environment. All our mobile sites feature our cutting-edge booking engine.

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Native applications for smartphones

FastBooking also develops native applications for its client hotels on the most popular mobile platforms.

A native application is specific to each smartphone’s technical constraints (machine language and operating system) to take greatest advantage of their individual attributes, ensure the best user experience, and make it as easy as possible for users to complete their booking.
Hoteliers can offer the best of their hotel to travelers from around the world, and let them enjoy the technological advantages offered by their preferred platform

FastBooking.com on the iPhone

FastBooking developed its first native application for the Apple iPhone: FastBooking.com on the iPhone.

The FastBooking iPhone app gives users access to the 4,000 independent hotels around the world in the FastBooking.com portfolio. Through the application, iPhone users reserve their rooms and other hotel amenities in real-time based on the most current information on each hotel’s rates and availability.

The application makes the most of the technological and ergonomic advantages the platform offers: intuitive interface, swiping and tapping features, and performance speed. It is designed from the users’ perspective and covers the entire booking experience—from finding and selecting a hotel to concluding the reservation and arriving at the door.

The FastBooking iPhone has been awarded a five-star rating by the prestigious Mobiles magazine and received the Web Marketing Association prestigious award for the ‘Best Mobile Mobile Application’ .

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