Hotel Reservation Service turns to MAGIQ for mobile optimisation. Within minutes, website adapted for all major mobile devices and browsers
Making hotel bookings on the move is now even easier, thanks to improvements made to HRS.com by MAGIQ, the on-demand digital marketing company.
HRS.com provides an online booking system giving its customers access to the largest online portfolio of bookable hotels. But with a flash-based website, HRS.com risked losing customers that tried accessing the service from certain devices, including the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and iPad. Instead of seeing a wealth of hotel and travel information, certain elements of the website appeared blank to visitors trying to book that much-needed break using their mobile devices.
Now, visitors using their mobile devices to access HRS.com are immediately recognised by MAGIQ as being mobile users. The MAGIQ service then automatically injects personalised content into the page with links to the correct mobile app for their device, instead of unusable flash content.
“MAGIQ’s service has revolutionised the way our mobile customers access our website. Previously, many mobile visitors had trouble accessing or seeing anything on our flash-based site, which meant we were potentially losing that window of opportunity to engage with a customer. But within literally minutes, our website was optimised for all mobile devices – and by using MAGIQ to do this, we had no changes to make on the web site at all!”
Malcolm Duckett, CEO at MAGIQ, added: “Flash does create a number of issues for companies like HRS.com that want to make sure their mobile customers are getting the best online. However, MAGIQ lets our customers instantly change the way users engage with a website by showing them only personalised information, so that everything they see and do is highly tailored for them – in this case providing flash-free content and mobile apps.”
About HRS
HRS is a leading hotel bookings specialist for private and business travellers, offering accommodation at more than 250,000 hotels in all categories in 180 different countries. The company offers the largest selection of hotels worldwide, featuring tens of thousands of individual hotels and hundreds of hotel chains.
The free reservation service enables users to book hotel rooms over the Internet at the cheapest rates available – backed up by a best-price guarantee. HRS Exclusive Prices also guarantee to be at least 10 percent cheaper than on all competing sites. Detailed descriptions of hotels, expressive videos and about 2 million hotel evaluations by hotel guests facilitate the task of choosing a hotel. In addition to millions of private customers, we equip organisations with a simple, centralised, self-service solution which offers travellers choice, independence and value. The service is also free and provides real-time access to the largest portfolio of online bookable hotels with a best price guarantee.
The portal is entirely customisable and provides an intuitive interface for booking by any individual whether in the office or on the move. Experiencing it transforms the way organisations think about the self-service booking model and results in reduced hotel expenditure and improved booking efficiency for the business.
More than 20,000 companies regularly book their accommodation for business trips, conferences and group travel through HRS and benefit from special HRS corporate rates, which offer discounts of up to 30 percent on the already very cheap daily rates.
As an innovative pioneer, HRS also sets the standard for the sector in the realm of mobile devices. By developing new mobile applications for the BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad, Nokia and Android phones, and the Palm Pre, HRS is capitalising on all the modern-day channels that help consumers find suitable accommodation more easily, even while travelling. The Hotels Now! app even enables available hotels in the immediate vicinity to be booked directly through the viewfinder of smartphone cameras.
Founded in 1972, the company has offices in Shanghai, London, Paris, Warsaw, Rome and Istanbul.
It is also the sole owner of the Innsbruck-based alpine portal www.tiscover.com
www.hrs.com or www.hrscorporate.com
About Magiq
MAGIQ aims to be the real-time lifecycle marketing company. We have a passion for innovation and helping
our customers achieve great results by exploiting world-class technology to deliver the latest in online and
cross-channel relevance marketing solutions.
MAGIQ's key values are simply stated:
COOL - MAGIQ is a fresh, innovative and engaging approach to cross-channel marketing. MAGIQ is a challenger, unconventional and entrepreneurial. MAGIQ is quietly confident and our solutions command respect.
TRUSTED - MAGIQ comes from a technology pedigree (Celebrus) that large, successful big brand companies rely on. It has history. It is trusted, reliable and won’t let you down.
SMART - MAGIQ stands for raw talent. Its solutions and people are bright, clever and sharp. MAGIQ offers its customers unrivalled expertise.
MAGIQ is part of the Speed-Trap group of companies, an organisation with over 10-years of history in developing world-leading technology for online businesses. MAGIQ’s sister company is Celebrus Technologies whose multi-award winning Customer Insight Platform is used by some of world’s most successful brands such as GHD, Hilton, ShopDirect, P&O Ferries, Hiscox Insurance, AXA, ComparetheMarket.com.
MAGIQ was formed in 2009 to exploit this technology and the emergence of Cloud Computing to deliver affordable, leading-edge solutions.
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