HOTEL booking company ThinkHotels.com and travel planning website TripAdvisor start partnership

June 25, 2014 - PRLog -- HOTEL booking company ThinkHotels.com and travel planning website TripAdvisor are proud to announce an exciting new online partnership. The two-part integration, begun in Q1 this year, promises to expand client bases for both partners as they continue to make the online hotel booking experience smooth and stress-free.

ThinkHotels’ best rates have already begun to feature on TripAdvisor for selected properties. Users will see the most competitive offer from ThinkHotels at the top of price lists for their properties on TripAdvisor, where they will be able to instantly click through to the ThinkHotels site for bookings.

In addition, hotel listings on the ThinkHotels website now feature star ratings and user-submitted reviews from TripAdvisor, to enable guests to make the right choice for their stay conveniently and smoothly. The TripAdvisor section of each hotel listing includes star ratings for location, rooms, service, and value, as well as an overall rating for each hotel and individual reviews from TripAdvisor users. The five reviews for each property voted “most helpful” on TripAdvisor will be pulled onto ThinkHotels each week.

ThinkHotels Online Marketing Executive Gaurav Pundir led the integration process on both sides. He said: “We’re excited to see the results of this collaboration and we’re currently working on getting our best rates on TripAdvisor for all 19,000 of our properties. We hope this partnership will continue to improve the hotel booking experience for our users, and also our new clients who are finding us through TripAdvisor.”

As well as featuring ratings, ThinkHotels will be promoting their new partner in public and industry communications, including newsletters, press, print ads, social media and partner websites.

ThinkHotels is currently 80% integrated with TripAdvisor and they hope to be able to launch the full online partnership by mid-June 2014, with more featured properties. This is ThinkHotels’ first major online partnership, and executives say there are other integrations in the works in the wake of their success with this collaboration.

ThinkHotels is now one of only a few hotel booking companies integrated to provide their rates to TripAdvisor users. Integrated companies see more incoming traffic from TripAdvisor as well as gaining the opportunity to showcase their best rates to a wider user base. In return, TripAdvisor ratings on booking websites provide users with honest feedback from fellow users, for peace of mind and total satisfaction with their choice.

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