this screenshot shows how the map material chosen by priceline doesn't result in any relevancy - drilling down on the map still won't display all the hotels and there are only major roads shown.
qa must have either slept or the decision was made that only us visitors count for priceline...
Hotels.com has announced the launch of its new Chinese website, part of the company's continued expansion into the Asian Pacific region
i know i'm quite late to realize, yet i wanted to share this information. expedia group now has it's own localized hotels.com version and expands it's presence in china in addition to the jv with elong.cn. this is seems like the last major language for hotels.com after they have just recently launched their arabic version (although fanadeq doesn't capture the arabic feel and leaves space for other entrants). hotels.com now boasts 25 different languages, more than any other hotel reservation site. this should be a strong foray into the apac region where currently other players such as priceline's agoda and booking as well as wotif's laterooms and asiawebdirect as well as orbitz's hotelclub/ratestogo have been historically strong. who's going to launch the next localized version? population-wise, the majority should be well covered except for malay language sites, capturing the techno-phile country as well as a share of the close to a billion indonesian citizens... who's up for a grab of that share except for agoda.com.my?
