With a myriad of useful features, its little wonder why the iPhone and iPod touch are two of today’s hottest selling electronics. If you already have one or are looking for yet another reason to purchase one of these popular gadgets. ILoveInns.com, publishers of more than 60 award-winning travel guides, has teamed with Apple to provide the latest in travel technology - InnTouch. This free, easy-to-download software allows travelers to quickly locate and book rooms at their favorite bed & breakfast, country inn or boutique hotel.
With more than 3,500 properties to choose from in more than 2,000 cities throughout the United States and Canada, InnTouch offers detailed descriptions of rooms, photos of the inns, rates, area maps and with one touch you can link to the inn’s website. Even better, if you want to book a room, simply touch the “Call” button and you will be connected to the inn or boutique hotel in just seconds. The InnTouch software is free and all you have to do is go to the Apple App Store and download the software onto your iPhone or iPod Touch.
InnTouch ‘09 for the iPhone and iPod Touch uses travel information that is updated by innkeepers and the ILoveInns.com staff around the clock, seven days a week. In addition to information about rates, location and room choices, ILoveInns also has included more than 1,000 recipes, tried-and-true favorites from their most popular innkeepers.
Chris Monahan, who serves as chief technology officer at iLoveInns.com, was the lead designer of the application explains, “You can search for inns by city or province, or seeing what’s around using the “Nearby” feature. This pulls your GPS coordinates and shows you nearby inns within 60 miles.”
With the program’s all-in-one convenience, the user can call the inn with one touch, bypassing the need to push each number individually. Travelers can see the inn address on a map, receive directions, save the address in their contact list and email or visit the inn’s website with just one click.
“We plan on adding many new features in the upcoming year,” Monahan said, “but after our initial launch, InnTouch already has received great response from travelers who are using it worldwide.
