Oistr.com has been approved by Expedia to provide online hotel bookings using an innovative, visual map-based interface.
Vancouver, British Columbia -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/30/2009 -- Vancouver based Oistr.com (http://www.oistr.com) received the go-ahead from Expedia to use their system to let users find hotels on a map in relation to restaurants, nightclubs and other points of interest, instead of choosing the hotel from a list.
Marketing Director and co-founder Scott Carmichael says “If you want to base your search for a hotel on the fact that you’re coming into town for the night to go to a concert at a stadium, you have to look up the stadium on a mapping site, then compare it to the simple map of a hotel you find on a typical travel site. We provide a solution allowing you to choose exactly which points you want on the map in comparison to each other without any irrelevant clutter.”
Does a hotel claim to be 5 minutes from the beach? Oistr.com is designed to let you choose your hotel by seeing the truth on a map, rather than relying on the description on a hotel website – we call this new approach Visual Travel. All additional information to help make a decision is right there on the map -including pictures, descriptions, and price ranges.
Other advanced features let a user fully customize a map by placing pins with their own pictures or businesses if they aren’t already there. These can then be seen in relation to the hotels, restaurants or other points of interest, such as golf courses, on one map. This is also an excellent way of sharing the vacation with friends.
Oistr is a new type of travel website with many features coming in the future; users interested in receiving once-per-month updates on the sites development can sign up here: http://www.oistr.com/about and click on “Please sign up for our newsletter”
For more information or to schedule an interview, please call Scott Carmichael at 604 569 2622 or email scottc@oistr.com
About Oistr.com
Oistr.com, based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, provides a new way of booking travel on the internet for users who are dissatisfied with the approach taken by existing travel websites. We focus on making the experience easy, fast and visually compelling for the consumer.