Yahoo! FareChase launches hotel beta
5 April 2005
Yahoo! has announced that it has expanded its FareChase travel search engine to include search for hotels.
The beta version of the Yahoo! FareChase hotel product offers consumers the opportunity to search multiple trusted hotel sites, including hotel chains and online travel agencies, to find the best hotel and related travel information available online.
Yahoo! claims the site produces unbiased search results and easy bookings directly with provider sites, eliminating the need for multiple online searches, saving consumers time, effort and money by using one trusted travel source.
The new Yahoo! FareChase hotel product offers a variety of powerful search, sorting, and refining capabilities, presented through an easy-to-use interface. The customised, dynamic sorting instantly redisplays results by price or distance from specified location and automatically lists hotel amenities, address and distance in miles.
The hotel beta also provides features and tools that help make choosing a hotel easier, such as hotel photos, user ratings and reviews, interactive maps that display hotels and attractions, and other useful travel content.
"As part of Yahoo!'s commitment to providing the best search experience on the Web, consumers now have a free, relevant and unbiased product to help them find and book travel quickly and easily," said Yen Lee, General Manager of Travel at Yahoo!
"This beta launch marks just the beginning of what we are capable of providing for travellers and will continue to leverage our world-class search technology and content to provide the most valuable travel search solution to our users."
During the beta phase, Yahoo! will continue to expand and improve the new hotel search offering, both in terms of hotel content and functionality and will also seek user feedback that will be used to make additional product refinements.
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