ghix.com - World's Largest International Hotel and Travel Platform with direct Contact to Hotels Integrates the Newest Technology of Google-Maps

GLOBAL HOTELINDEX Ltd. integrated Google-Maps for the most important with maps covered destinations worldwide. www.ghix.com thereby increases the user friendliness with the newest technology.

Stansstad, Switzerland (PRWEB) September 21, 2006 -- GLOBAL HOTELINDEX Ltd. integrated Google-Maps for the most important with maps covered destinations worldwide. www.ghix.com thereby increases the user friendliness with the newest technology.

Google-Maps made it possible to look for destinations as well as hotels and other objects of interest. Hotels are show by their geographical position on a traditional map or in a picture of the earth's surface (satellite picture). Navigation elements are programmed to move on the map/screen window even without search words. Likewise a zoom shot can be used, that allows to set a solution level, in which partial even individual cars are recognizable.

www.ghix.com cumulated with Google-Maps results in the worldwide largest travel- and hotel-platform with the direct contact to hotels combining user friendliness in connection with newest technology. Travellers navigate on the map of their destination directly to their hotel. From there it goes to the transparent hotel information.

PROVEN SYSTEM:

The proven system of the reservation possibilities over the direct contact to the hotels by the publication of the hotel addresses as well as additional hotel data will still be hold. Exactly this system differentiates Global Hotelindex from all the other hotel reservation platforms. Enterprise leader Marc Geissbuehler explains: “The publication of more than 480,000 hotel addresses is unique. Travel catalogues or portals publish these valuable information rarely for the public, however we judge this as very important and useful for the traveler, who looks for a hotel, where still a high number of reservations are made by telephone."

During the last year the circle of guests who frequently book their hotels online over www.ghix.com grew rapidly. The bookers recognize that they can save much time and money, if they book their hotels, flights and rental cars over www.ghix.com. More than 22'000 out of the 85'000 bookable hotels offer a so-called "Best offers price guarantee”. If the booker finds the exactly same room, in the same hotel, with the same travel dates, at a cheaper online rate with an online hotel mediator, either the difference will be recompensed to or the reservation can be cancelled free of charge.

AUXILIARY OFFERS AND -INFORMATION FROM GHIX:

The offer of worldwide travel planning on www.ghix.com is rounded off by numerous information about public transport, timetables, country information, visa regulations, local time, as well as the current weather in more than 4000 destinations. In partnership with strong and well-known touristical service providers from Europe and overseas, flights, rental cars, travel insurances, vacation homes and cruises can b directly booked online.

The portal is graphically very attractive, therefore even untrained internet users can find easy and fast to an appropriate hotel room from the worldwide selection. An acknowledgment for the Swiss enterprise is the honour by the Horizon Interactive Awards. The constantly rising number of daily online accesses confirms the attractive offer and the user friendly surface.

Direct Contact:

Global Hotelindex Ltd.

Stanserstrasse 7

CH-6362 Stansstad / Switzerland

www.globalhotelindex.com

www.ghix.com

Stansstad, September 2006

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