China Hotel Info on Your Mobile
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Looking for a hotel room in over 400 cities in China?
The country’s major travel agent, eLong, and social networking platform, GyPSii, believe they can help.
The two have joined forces to produce the giant country’s first mobile phone based reservation service.
eLong have a huge selection of hotels and GyPSii can let people use their mobile to look at hotel details, and look at independent reviews as well as other useful info, such as contact information for each individual hotel.
There is a big choice, the company has over 7000 hotels on their online books. Mobile surfers will also be able to look at photos, check a map to see just where each hotel is located, and even find directions.
This is clearly a win-win for each company as neither has the capabilities to offer the whole package and they need each other to succeed.
The system will also deliver third party premium content for its members.
GyPSii did have a kind of practice run during the Olympics, when it partnered with China Unicom to provide its subscribers with service for the period of the games.
in china, the searching via the mobile phone will be more than pc in few years later. since pc is still not an affordable product for each family, and most of the family can use mobile phone for online which is cheap, around usd0.15 each time online with unlimted bandwidth and time. and the poeple use it only for emal or searching the things they want, mainly is for info instead of buying. so, if any industries need to promote the info and let the users to contact them offline, the mobile phone searching is a good platform for it, such as hotel, car renting etc.