hotelicopter Launches Hotel Ratings Through Facebook Connect

Charlottesville, VA – Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

hotelicopter (www.hotelicopter.com), the new hotel search engine that helps online travelers book hotels, vacations, and travel deals, today launched a revolutionary new hotel search experience that publishes a user’s hotel ratings to their news feed on the Facebook Platform while directly integrating hotel recommendations from a user’s friends within their hotel search results.

When a user conducts a hotel search on hotelicopter, recommendations from their friends are brought to the surface. Having hotel recommendations from friends directly embedded in the hotel search results makes it easier to decide which hotel to book.

Once a user has decided on a hotel, hotelicopter displays what it would cost to book that hotel from over 30 leading travel sites. This helps the user choose the best hotel for their stay and book it for the best available price. hotelicopter helps travelers find amazing hotels worldwide, including Las Vegas hotels, Orlando hotels, Chicago hotels, Los Angeles hotels, and New York hotels.

This new ratings platform makes hotelicopter the first travel site to seamlessly integrate with the Facebook Platform to deliver personalized hotel recommendations on its hotel search engine.

With Facebook Connect, Facebook users can quickly and easily authenticate into hotelicopter using their already established Facebook account. This instantly connects them to friends that are already using hotelicopter. Users can then rate hotels and share these ratings with their friends on the Facebook Platform.

Adam Healey, hotelicopter’s CEO said, “We’re excited to roll out this new hotel ratings platform. We’ve learned our customers would rather see recommendations from trusted friends than sift through thousands of reviews written by strangers. This is another example of how hotelicopter is driving innovation in the travel industry – we’re very focused on delivering a world-class user experience for travelers.”

About hotelicopter
hotelicopter is a hotel search engine. We help you decide where to stay for your next trip, and where you can book it for the best available price. hotelicopter searches rates and availability for over 150,000 hotels worldwide from 30+ leading travel sites. Founded in 2006, hotelicopter is based in Charlottesville, Virginia. For more information, please visit www.hotelicopter.com or email us at media@hotelicopter.com.

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