Apartments Growing In Popularity: Excite Holidays

BONDI JUNCTION, Australia - Aug. 21, 2013 - PRLog -- Excite Holidays is noticing a trend of Australian travellers preferring fully serviced apartments over traditional hotels when they travel overseas.

Travellers appreciate that they get more value with an apartment, including separate living and sleeping areas, multiple bedrooms and bathrooms and a laundry. Furthermore, many travelers are requesting kitchens, which allows guests to stock up and cook their favourite meal, instead of eating out all the time. This makes an apartment a warm and welcoming space, rather than just a place to store the bags and rest one’s head.

Joe Karbo, General Manager of Excite Holidays said: “People like to feel more at home when they’re overseas and they like being able to cook their own food. Travellers love having the space, comforts and amenities of home.”

To make booking the perfect apartment easier and more convenient, Excite Holidays has implemented an apartment search feature for agents. The feature gives agents the ability to instantly search and book by hotel or apartment.

Since the launch of the feature over 4 months ago, Excite Holidays has seen approximately a 55% increase in apartment bookings compared to the previous year.

Some of the popular cities where Excite Holidays has apartment inventory include London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Venice, Berlin, Copenhagen, Athens and Lyon.