Today, who hasn’t heard about Google Street Maps? For those in need of guidance, Google Street View is the Google Maps and Google Earth application that allows the user to virtually visit streets of cities which have been mapped by Google directly on the surface. It was launched for the first time in USA on the 25th of May 2007. The next year, more specifically on the 28th of October, it was implemented in Spain, including maps of cities like Barcelona (including its metropolitan area), Valencia, Seville and Madrid. On the 26th of January 2009, the application included Hoobing.com.

So, from here on now, hotels located in the cities which have implemented Google Street View application, both in Spain and in the rest of the world will have the option to be displayed in that format on Hoobing.com. If you do not know exactly which cities can be viewed with this application, just click on this Wikipedia link where all cities including this application are listed, grouped by country.

As we said, there are many hotels on Hoobing.com that have the option to be displayed with Google Street View. Check this new functionality visiting their datasheets: Hotel Majestic (Barcelona), Le Park Méridien New York, Akasaka Excel Hotel Tokyu (Tokyo).

On Hoobing, we offer state-of.the-art technologies. Stay tuned!

By this stage, being facebook the biggest social network worldwide, it is difficult to resist the temptation to open an account: just log on and get spellbound in front of the screen, watching the time go by, joining all sorts of picturesque fan clubs. From your favorite football player to that amazing filmmaker, and, of course, your preferred rock band, they all are on facebook.

Being honest to our slogan, Book directly, travel smart, we just decided to create a Hoobing.com facebook account. This way, all users will be able to add us to their profiles, so a growing community of users can benefit from the advantages of booking directly on hotels websites.

In the Hoobing.com facebook homesite you will be able to check our daily web updates, join forums – as the one we started about intermediary free environments within the tourism industry, enjoy our pictures and stay in touch with our facebook alter ego.

Wanna become a Hoobing fan?

More and more hotel chains and independent hotels made the decision to rely on Hoobing’s philosophy. Skip all intermediaries and boost your own booking channel: your official website! Hoobing offers you a space where you will be able to include your hotel, with pictures, videos, description, location, services, etc, so users will be able to get the maximum information possible and address directly to your website to carry out their booking processes.

A week ago we announced the incorporation of new hotel chains to the Hoobing platform; now, we would like to highlight the presence of such significant and well-known entities as those part of the Grupo Majestic Barcelona, Hotel Fira Palace Barcelona, Alexandre hotels, Vincci Hoteles, H10, Releais Chateaux Mas Canicatti, among others. At an international level, in Austria, the UK and Germany we are known to Swissotel Berlin, Atel Hotel Lasserhof de Salzburg, el Der Salzburger Hof and the London House Hotel. These are some of the hotels which registered within these last weeks.

So… if you want to join the Hoobing community, as these hotels did, click here and fill in this short form to register your hotel.

BTW… See you in Fitur!!!

As many hotels know, Hoobing.com has been integrated with several channel managers with the purpose to display different rates on the Hoobing technical datasheet of hotels.

For those hotels using Channel Direct or Rate Tiger technology, access to the Hoobing platform is already available. In this way, users will be able to check the rates of your hotel, and if they want to carry out a booking process, they will have to visit your official website.

Relating EZ Yield, the testing period will be finished during the next week. We will keep you posted and will notify whenever access to this channel is available to start distributing your rates.

Have a nice weekend!

Yesterday we posted an article on the Tourism Sector Innovation Group, within the Spanish tourism community Hosteltur, dealing with the impact of the new horizons offered by the new information technologies on the world of tourism industry.

In this article we bring forward a parallelism between the DIY underground trend and new user profiles, those of consumers of tourism products, which are arising due to the boom of free-intermediary environments which allow the booking of trips and hotels stays. Hoobing.com positions itself as the flagship of this philosophy among web portals. So we invite you to read this article and to participate in this discussion.

Until today and since the time we have been up and rolling online, the first preference of Hoobing has been to bring this project to independent hotels and hotel chains, so they can benefit from a hotel-specialized vertical search engine whose main aim is to boost the own booking channel of the establishment: its website.

It is considered that, in the future, segmentation within internet search processes will be a constant, so from this approach Hoobing.com is an innovative 2.0 proposal. That’s why hotel chains such as Hoteles Santos, Hoteles Porcel, Melià Buenos Aires, Hoteles Var, Hoteles Globales, High Tech Hoteles, Roc Blanc, Roc Hoteles, Medium and Prestige have already registered with Hoobing.com.

These last days have been pretty busy around here. We, as the rest of the humans, have our wishes for this New Year: to publish this blog in two languages, upload new functionalities we are still cooking, introduce our project to the world… and for this purpose, what can’t think of anything better than assisting to the next Fitur tradeshow!!!
We would like to get to know all those hotels who registered in the last weeks and also those who haven’t yet, maybe because they need some first person info. If you are one of those and want to have a talk with us, send us an email and we will contact you.

See ya in two weeks!!!