суббота, 11 декабря 2010 г.

Hotel Me: A Facebook Application to friendsource hotel choice

I would like to present you an interesting article which introduce a new application on Facebook.

How do we find the hotels for our trips? Firstly we go to internet, we see the available hotels, compare the rates the location. Beautiful pictures attract our attention; we book it and we begin to dream about our trip. But how many times you were disappointed by the chosen hotel? Unfortunately many times. A very good idea is before booking the hotel to see the comments about it. For this purpose everybody knows the site Tripadvisor with many information about the hotels and what is important with difference comments about them. This is very useful, but unfortunately you don’t know the person who leaved these comments. Your interest could be different; the vision on the things, the comfort, and beauty could be different.

An interesting solution is proposed by new application on Facebook: Hotel Me
Kukunu a socially-savvy travel application is advising to gather some information by integrating suggestions from your Facebook friends to your travel plans. The idea is that the best way to find and shoos the right hotel is to ask people that you know and trust. Kukunu is introducing Hotel Me.
You add it in your Facebook account, give your destination, the dates (but you also can not have the specific dates), ask you question like: “could you advise me a super hotel”, and send it (ask your friends).
In my opinion it is a very good idea. Every time that I plan to go somewhere I spend a lot of time to find and choose a good hotel. Finally I’ am not always happy and satisfy with the chosen hotel, and just after my returning I discover that some of my friends know a perfect hotel, but it is too late. That is why this application will help to discover the good hotels, advised by your friends. It is very easy to use and I think that the results should be great.

2 комментария:

  1. The article commented by Alena is very interesting. I agree with her that this new application on Facebook is an interesting and a good solution to help us when we prepare our future trip.
    In this sense, as Alena said in her comment, it is not easy to find a hotel which will respond to our waiting. On internet, we can find the available hotels, but, we can have some problems to know if this hotel is good or not. For that, we can go on a site like Tripadvisor to read some comments, but as Alena said, we do not know the person who leaved these comments.
    So, I totally agree when Alena said that this new application is very interesting, because that permit us to have interests of our friends, and, I think that we are more attentive with the comments of our friends than with the comments of people than we do not know.
    It is a very interesting application, and I think that it can help us to discover the better hotel for our travel.

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  2. I think Alena wrote a very good comment on this article but I do not really see the interest of this new application by Facebook: Hotel Me Kukunu. If I want to have the advices and opinion of my friends, I can just ask them via my message of the day. I could just say: "Yeah!!! I Go to X in 2 weeks!!! Any ideas for the hotel?" Those who want to share their experiences can do it. Plus, I think the answers and possibilities will be very limited, unless you have friends who are real globetrotters OR who are very knowledgeable of the hotel market OR you have 1000 friends all around the world... Maybe there is something I did not get here. Can somebody explain what is the interest?

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