Gekko launches its Facebook Travel App
Gekko.com, the personalised international hotel booking service, today unveiled a new Facebook application that aims to optimise what travellers have always done (namely share tips and advice) by collecting and organising travel recommendations via friends on Facebook.
PERONALISED TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS
The Gekko Facebook App works by collating travel recommendations from those in your social network, allowing users to create their own lists, which friends and followers can then view. If you are going to New York, for example, you can search for New York lists and all recommendations from friends will appear in one place. In addition to this, users can click through on any hotels, restaurants and bars recommended and book or sign up to personalised offers there and then. Gekko Facebook users may also post questions or make suggestions and comments on the Gekko Facebook wall about anything travel related.
ABOUT GEKKO
Founded by internet entrepreneur Dino van Es (also co-founder of Zecco), Gekko has partnerships with Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Hotels.com, TravelIntelligence.com, LateRooms.com, TravelNow.com, LastMinute.com, Venere and Hotels Combined. It hopes that the integrated experience offered by its Gekko Facebook App will offer a new way to book holidays, based upon reliable recommendations from people users know and trust.
"Gekko is evolving the hotel discount model," commented Gekko CEO Michel Cassius. "Consumers get the best price and are offered highly personalised deals by hotels worldwide and by restaurants, clubs and bars. And with our full Facebook integration, we add the social layer to the booking process, making it both engaging and fun."
GEKKO FACEBOOK APP
In order to sign up to the Gekko Facebook App, users must allow Gekko access to their basic information on Facebook, allow it to post status messages notes, photos and videos to their wall and access to their data when not using the application.
Find out more on Facebook and on Twitter.
19th July 2011
PERONALISED TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS
The Gekko Facebook App works by collating travel recommendations from those in your social network, allowing users to create their own lists, which friends and followers can then view. If you are going to New York, for example, you can search for New York lists and all recommendations from friends will appear in one place. In addition to this, users can click through on any hotels, restaurants and bars recommended and book or sign up to personalised offers there and then. Gekko Facebook users may also post questions or make suggestions and comments on the Gekko Facebook wall about anything travel related.
ABOUT GEKKO
Founded by internet entrepreneur Dino van Es (also co-founder of Zecco), Gekko has partnerships with Booking.com, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Hotels.com, TravelIntelligence.com, LateRooms.com, TravelNow.com, LastMinute.com, Venere and Hotels Combined. It hopes that the integrated experience offered by its Gekko Facebook App will offer a new way to book holidays, based upon reliable recommendations from people users know and trust.
"Gekko is evolving the hotel discount model," commented Gekko CEO Michel Cassius. "Consumers get the best price and are offered highly personalised deals by hotels worldwide and by restaurants, clubs and bars. And with our full Facebook integration, we add the social layer to the booking process, making it both engaging and fun."
GEKKO FACEBOOK APP
In order to sign up to the Gekko Facebook App, users must allow Gekko access to their basic information on Facebook, allow it to post status messages notes, photos and videos to their wall and access to their data when not using the application.
Find out more on Facebook and on Twitter.
19th July 2011
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