HOTELS looking to rid themselves of unsold rooms have a new option inCheckInTonight.asia, said to be South-east Asia’s first last-minute mobile hotel booking system.
Offering access to discounted hotels for same-day bookings, the mobile web application releases the three best hotel deals for each location – e.g. Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville – each day at 11.00. Users are then able to book and confirm their last-minute hotel directly from their smartphone or tablet. Only properties vetted byCheckInTonight.asia will be listed, and they are classified as boutique, classic or deluxe.
Currently available only for Cambodia properties, it will be expanded to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam by early 2013.
Mark Southby, managing director of CheckInTonight.asia, said: “We found that increasingly modern business travellers, tourists and even locals need to make short-term travel decisions. CheckInTonight.asia will now offer these travellers a quick and easy alternative to secure a last-minute room.”
“CheckInTonight.asia offers a great deal not only for travellers, but also for the hotels we work with,” Southby added. “For hotels, we are a marketplace to fill last-minute rooms that could otherwise remain empty. (The hoteliers) can decide themselves how much discount they want to offer in order to help sell their rooms for that night.”
