AMSTERDAM, July 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
With the newly launched
'Booking Experiences' your smartphone will
soon be all you need for a highly curated, frictionless experience
wherever your travels take you
So you've found the perfect destination and booked an amazing
place to stay…but what do you do while you're there? Today
Booking.com, the global leader in connecting travellers with the
widest choice of incredible places to stay, announced the pilot
release of its new Booking Experiences product. The ultimate
technology response to take the friction out of the in-destination
experience, Booking Experiences will allow travellers to discover
the best a destination has to offer, all through a mobile
device.
Booking Experiences is a first-of-its-kind, highly curated,
mobile-led experience that will ultimately harness Artificial
Intelligence technology and powerful machine-learning to predict
individual traveller intent and create a truly convenient,
personalised in-destination experience-all on demand, with
hassle-free payment and priority queueing.
Booking Experiences is available today on both the Android and
iOS versions of the Booking.com app for Amsterdam. The pilot launches for Booking
Experiences Paris, London and
Dubai will go live at the end of
this month, with New York city set
to go live in the autumn of 2016.
Read the full release on Booking.com's global newsroom.
About Booking.com:
Booking.com is the world leader in booking hotel and other
accommodations online. It guarantees the best prices for any type
of property - from small independents to five-star luxury. Guests
can access the Booking.com website anytime, anywhere from their
desktops, mobile phones and tablet devices, and they don't pay
booking fees - ever. The Booking.com website is available in 42
languages, offers over 975,000 hotels and accommodations including
more than 475,000 vacation rental properties and covers over 93,000
destinations in 224 countries and territories worldwide. It
features over 97M reviews written by guests after their stay, and
attracts online visitors from around the globe. With over 19 years
of experience and a team of over 11,000 dedicated employees in over
176 offices worldwide, Booking.com operates its own in-house
customer service team, which is available 24/7 to assist
guests.
Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. owns and operates
Booking.com™, and is part of The Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN).
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