Monday, 29 February 2016

Last Minute Booking Apps: A win-win innovation

Last Minute Booking Apps: A Win-Win innovation

More and more last minute booking apps are invading the traditional booking process thanks to innovative and spontaneous reservations. These apps are mostly free of charge and propose very competitive prices in a particular destination for the evening.
Hotel Tonight and Booking Now are considered as leaders in this new market trend of “On-Demand Economy”. Available hotel rooms are posted at noon on the app and travelers can book until 2 AM depending on apps.



Advantages of Last Minute Booking Apps for professionals

Nowadays Travelers’ Road to Decision is completely changing from the traditional one. Indeed, smartphones are increasingly used during the travel process, and also during the final booking process. Thus, hotel professionals can take advantage of these new platform trends.
Besides, these apps market segment are much diversified and without strong barriers. A lot of reasons could make a person book a last-minute hotel room. For instance, travelers could extent their holidays in last minute, others could have flight cancellations or any other reasons.  This shows how much opportunities can have hotels to become partner with these platforms.
These booking apps are not only available on iOs, but also on Android and Windows phone; which enable a larger market to use it.


Advantages of Last Minute Booking Apps for travelers

If you are a spontaneous traveler and you are looking for good hotel deals, these apps are made for you. The concept is very clear and easy to use for anyone who has a smartphone. Indeed, you will be able to book a hotel room with only a few taps.
Options for hotel rooms are very large. First, these apps have a consistent database with a wide selection of hotels. Besides, last-minute booking apps define clearly some hotel categories in order to answer quickly to customers’ needs. Thus, you can find from standard to luxury rooms with high discount.
Suggested hotels are filtered by professionals. In this way, you will be able to find similar information than on hotel’s website; such as photos, comments, description and maps that will help you to take a decision in full transparency.
To conclude, this new trend of last-minute booking apps is a win-win innovation for both travelers and professionals. Processes are becoming easier and faster thanks to very well designed and practical interfaces.

Sevan Karaoghlanian & Patrick Rakotondrajao

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