App Hotels

Have you ever thought to have information about your favorite hotel, in your hands?
Now it’s possible directly on your smart phone with a simple click thanks to the innovative AppHotels!

Apphotel is the first app for iPhone and Android dedicated to the hotels and accommodation’s world.

There are three different types of App Hotels, which are characterized by different contents, with reference to three types of hotels (Tourist, Business and Luxury).

For each type of hotel you can personalize colors and all styles inside the same skin.

There is a section with in-app with which tourists can get information on events, monuments, museums, taxis, metro, weather and much more.

The welcome page allows the immediate access to all the functions of AppHotels.

·       Booking: Direct access to the               

booking system

·       Services: Direct access to all

     services offered by the hotel.

·      Info: This section collects all

information relating to public

interest about the hotel.

·      Public: Services offered by

AppHotels directly to the

final user to take advantage of

the app during the stay in the territory.

The Quick Bar is a shortcut in order to access to the sections of AppHotels longer used.

The Booking area allows the customer to book directly the room from its smartphone.
There are two standard ways for the granting of this powerful instrument:
● Web panel of availability management with insertion by the hotel structure.
● The hotel provides an XML flux that the customer must insert into the booking.

In the Services section you can consult and buy all the services that the hotel offers. The page is dynamic and is managed through a touch panel (Back Office) that allows you to decide what and how services operate.

The Info page is a section dedicated to all the information that the Hotel wants to provide its customers. In fact it is possible to insert:

● Contact
● Payment
● Facilities
● Meal
● Distance
● Hotel Fact
● Photo Gallery

The Publish section contains a series of online services that AppHotels inserts into their applications. These App are “App in App” to help you during your stay.

There are also very important services concerning the safety and first aid to the user.

This section is in constant evolution and will allow all Hotel to provide its clients support for travel, for transports (train, metro, taxi), for info on the most interesting places around the hotel and many other things.

Customers will always have in their pocket tourist and useful information about the destination to enjoy a better experience.

This type of app could reveal itself extremely useful. In particolar it’s important for last minute reservations, when people don’t have too much time to pay attention on the site or services. This app can give them all information they need in a very safe and fast way.

It’s also very important to have an app on cellphones that give the opportunity to check different destination and hotels and to choose the best one, even if a person is not in front of his personal computer.

Also, the number of people that use internet through thei smartphone or tablet is increasing and it supposed to be higher than the number of people that use internet through their personal computers, And the hotels that use this type of app will have some advantages, obviously: they will satisfy their guests more than other hotel as well a sto improve customer loyalty and more disintermediation. Guests can have some advantages as well, like, lower prices or personalized services.

Source: http://www.apphotels.com/index_eng.html

Key Words: App, Hotel, Tourist information, service, accommodation, smart-phone.

Created by: Francesca Nocerino, Carmine Andrea D’Orsi, Barbara Esposito.