New hotel search engine uses Google Maps
28 July 2005
Hotels-X.net has announced the addition of Google Maps to its hotel search engine.
The search site has used Google's product to launch interactive city maps overlaid with information about hotels and nearby landmarks, less than a week after Google opened Google Maps for third party applications.
The new, visual Hotels-X.net website enables travellers to find their perfect hotel on an interactive map of the city and users can instantly refine their search by hotel name, price range, hotel class, guest rating or distance from notable landmarks.
The search engine, owned and operated by 3Genius International (3Gi), a subsidiary of 3Genius Corporation, generates an interactive map featuring the selected hotels, helping consumers find the right hotel in the perfect area of town.
The Toronto-based search company announced in a statement that the satellite and hybrid map views allow visitors to the website to view the hotel and nearby landmarks from a bird's eye view and, in most larger cities, they can even see the hotel and cars in its parking lot using Google's satellite imagery.
"As far as we know, this is the first time anyone has integrated dynamic hotel data with Google Maps," said Barbara O'Gorman, Manager for Hotels-X. "We are proud to work with this extraordinary public technology from Google to present to travelers a unique and powerful tool for travel planning."
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