With handheld mobiles, such as the Blackberry and iPhone, becoming more and more popular it is thus not surprising a number of service providers in the travel industry have jumped onto the bandwagon to make their sites mobile so users can access their services/products while on the move.

The latest to jump on to the bandwagon is travel search engine Sprice.com, which launches the Sprice Hotels application (pictured left) for the iPhone via Apple’s online iTunes App Store.


As the Naked Surfer finds out the app is very user-friendly and the list of Sprice hotels available is exhaustive (Sprice.com puts the numbers to over 120,000 hotels globally). There are also last minute deals and you can make the booking immediately with the iPhone. Neat!

According to Sprice.com, the new app generates important data with the search, providing information about the hotel such as map location, photos, guest reviews and amenities, as well as real-time offers and discounts. In addition, you can choose to filter the search results by the hotel’s cost, user rating and 
even the distance from whichever landmarks they choose as the start point.

Vikas Gulati, Vice President of Sprice.com, 
Asia Pacific, said Sprice Hotels empowers travellers to make last-minute booking decisions, even as they are en route to their destinations.

“The launch of our mobile application Sprice Hotels is a natural progression for our travel search engine as the pool of mobile users around the world to expand exponentially. Since Sprice.com was launched in 2007, we have received 
positive feedback from consumers all over the world and in Asia Pacific. Demand for the product has consistently been on the rise with visitorship reaching a record of three million globally.”