Hospitality Net

PARSIPPANY, NJ | Lodging Interactive, a leading interactive marketing agency servicing the hospitality industry, today announced the roll out of its mobile website design and mobile marketing services for hotels. Lodging Interactive's new mobile services enables hotel websites to be rendered on all major smart phones and cell phones and provides direct website reservations capabilities for mobile users.

"The United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recently reported that there will be over 4 billion cell phone subscribers worldwide by the end of 2008. The cell phone has truly become ubiquitous and mobile users have come to expect an efficient and information rich online cell phone experience," said Mr. DJ Vallauri, Lodging Interactive's Founder & President. "Our mobile website design and marketing services enables hotels, independent and branded, to reach this important market segment in a cost effective manner."

Lodging Interactive creates a mobile website specifically designed for the hotel to ensure it is properly rendered on any cell phone. Additionally, the company utilizes proprietary coding to automatically detect and redirect visitors using Apple iPhones who will enjoy a more complete mobile experience designed for iPhone's Safari mobile browser. "Our technology can detect which cell phone platform and browser the visitor is using and display the most appropriate website rendering, all seamlessly to the user," added Mr. Vallauri.

Lodging Interactive's mobile services also includes Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services to maximize positioning of the hotel's mobile website within the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).

"Our mobile website services are especially well suited for branded properties who may not have their own marketing websites. The brands are simply not addressing the global mobile opportunities for its individual franchisees," said Mr. Vallauri. "We have been able to create a business model that makes establishing a mobile website and marketing it affordable to any franchisee."

For more information about Lodging Interactive's mobile design and marketing services please contact Mr. Richard Walsh, Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Walsh can reached at 877-291-4411 extension 701 or via email rjwalsh@lodginginteractive.com.

About Lodging Interactive | Lodging Interactive is a leading provider of Internet Marketing Services to the hospitality, spa and restaurant industries. The company provides a portfolio of effective Internet Marketing Services to hundreds of hotels, resorts, timeshares, spas and restaurants. Clients included branded hotels from nearly every major brand as well as prestigious, landmark independent hotels.

The Company offers effective online tools and services: ChatterGuard.com, an online social media monitoring and reputation management system, HotelSocialBlogs.com, a fully managed Travel 2.0 Distribution & Marketing service, CommentCards.com, a full-service business-2-consumer comment card service, eProposalSystem.com, an online RFP response system hotel Sales Managers, RFPLink.com, a group RFP lead generation, HotelDirectBook.com, a consumer hotel portal, and reporting system, DiningClick.com, Internet Marketing Services for the restaurant industry, and Spa Interactive, Internet Marketing Services for the health spa industry.

Lodging Interactive is a proud member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA), The California Hotel Association, the Day Spa Association, and a supporter of the Hotel Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI). For more information contact Richard Walsh, Vice President of Business Development at rjwalsh@lodginginteractive.com or at 877-291-4411. The company’s website is located at www.LodgingInteractive.com.