Tele Atlas Collaborates with HRS to Help Travelers Find More than 230,000 Hotels Around the World
Categories: Industry News GPS / Navigation Systems
HRS hotel content available for location-based and navigation applications using
Tele Atlas digital maps
Gent, Belgium, and Cologne, Germany, 12 November 2008 - Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, and Hotel Reservation Service (HRS), Europe's leading online hotel reservation portal, today announced an agreement to make HRS' database of more than 230,000 worldwide hotel locations and ratings available to Tele Atlas digital map users.
The HRS portal registers more than 100 million visits a month and 13,000 companies worldwide regularly book accommodations through HRS, including Deutsche Telekom, EADS, IKEA and Metro AG. HRS' database includes hotels at all price ranges and ratings generated from more than 1.3 million user reviews.
"One of the most important decisions for all travelers is choosing accommodations that meet their travel needs requirements as well as their unique style and taste preferences. Tele Atlas' partnership with HRS will help deliver a richer and more personalized navigation experience by making it easier for travelers around the world to find the right hotels in the right locations along their personal journeys," said Tony Bogaert, Partner Manager, Tele Atlas.
Through this agreement, HRS hotel location and rating content will be available for application developers and device manufacturers to incorporate into personal and in-car navigation systems powered by Tele Atlas maps, helping to provide end users with an enhanced, accurate and content-rich navigation experience.
"Working with Tele Atlas and its partners in personal and automotive navigation will help HRS accomplish two strategic goals - add more recreational travelers to our traditional business users to expand our overall market, and provide all HRS users with ad-hoc, mobile access to our unmatched database of hotel locations and ratings," said Tobias Ragge. Managing Director, HRS.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the world's most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and has approximately 2,000 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 24 countries. Today, Tele Atlas maps are developed with the insight of a community of millions of GPS system users worldwide, who are adding to the company's unmatched network of sources to track and validate changes in real time, and deliver the best digital maps and dynamic content. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V.
About Hotel Reservation System (HRS)
HRS operates a worldwide electronic hotel reservation system for private and business travelers based on a database containing more than 230,000 hotels. Its portal registers 100 million visits a month and has an average of 5.5 million users. The system enables direct bookings to be made free of charge with immediate confirmation at the cheapest daily best-buy prices available on the market. Further information can be found at www.HRS.com.
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For additional information, please contact:
Sandra Van Hauwaert
Tele Atlas
+32(0)9 244 92 22
sandra.vanhauwaert@teleatlas.com
Kerstin Heinen
HRS - HOTEL RESERVATION SERVICE
+49(0) 221 2077-5052
Kerstin.heinen@hrs.com
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