Travelers win with Lodging.com and Maps.com alliance

Get directions and great lodging discounts with partnership

Maps.com, one of the Web’s premier map destination sites, today announced access through its site to top online hotel discounter Lodging.com. This is an alliance designed to be a real plus for business and vacation travelers alike, according to officials at both companies. The new partnership makes Lodging.com the preferred resource for online lodging reservations in maps.com’s new travel channel (www.maps.com/test/travel-deals/home2.html) launched recently.

“I travel about 3 days a week for business so I use maps.com for directions on a regular basis,” says Jerry Bennett, a pharmaceutical sales representative in Hollywood, Fla. “I also use Lodging.com to help me find affordable and convenient accommodations. What a great thing to have these online travel tools combined.”

Maps.com’s new travel channel features great deals for lodging, car rentals, airfares and more, all at deep discounts.
Lodging.com offers discounted hotel rates in more than 250 cities in North, Central and South America in the effort to provide travelers with the tools they need to get the most out of a trip.

“We process more than 10,000 hotel reservations per month,” says Michael Nadboy, director of business development for Lodging.com. “Maps.com users will find our site an easy-to-navigate resource.”

One of the fastest growing sites on the Internet, maps.com serves travel, recreation and education consumers. The site is ranked in the top 15 of Web sites in the travel category, according to PC Data Online.

“Maps.com is committed to expanding our travel content offerings,” says John Serpa, maps.com director of online service. “This partnership has a significant fit in our overall strategy of making travel deals available to online visitors.”

Once maps.com visitors find their destination and the best route to get there, they can then click on the Travel Deals button, which lists all the preferred travel partners. Clicking on the Lodging.com button: users only need to select their destination to find a wide choice of hotel and motel listings with discounted pricing.

Media Metrix, PC Data Online and Top9.com rank Lodging.com among the top 25 most popular travel sites. Located in Boca Raton, Fla., Lodging.com also supplies the lodging industry with reservation management software, which enables any size property to offer reservations via the Internet. For more information, visit www.lodging.com or call 561-989-9330.

Maps.com is a leading mapping solutions company serving business, education and consumer marketplaces since 1991. Company products are used by major Internet sites, schools and colleges, news broadcasters, major newspapers, directory and educational publishers. Clients include ABC News, The National Geographic Society, American Automobile Association, McGraw Hill, CNN Interactive, the Library of Congress and Verizon.