HotelDirect.co.uk is launching Christmas Gift Vouchers from 04 December to give hotels in London and across Europe a much needed Christmas boost. Tara Physick, Director of Hotel Direct, stated; ‘Hotels are at the sharp end of the global recession that we are all entering. Gift Vouchers are one of a series of Hotel Direct initiatives to provide hotels with new sales avenues. We need to work harder at persuading people to book hotels and this means stimulating the market with new ideas and reasons to buy’.

Tara continued: ‘Until now it has been very difficult to purchase a hotel stay as a gift. The uncertainty of dates meant hotel breaks didn’t make a practical present. Hotel Direct’s gift vouchers allow people to decide exactly how much they want to gift and give access to all the destinations and fantastic offers available at www.hoteldirect.co.uk. The vouchers are valid for any hotel booking made within 18 months of issue.’

Hotel Direct’s Gift Vouchers are being launched with an online and offline advertising campaign and are promoted with the headline ‘Stick a hotel in someone’s stocking‘.

HotelDirect.co.uk was established in 1997 and is the leading online agent for hotels in London and other European cities. Hotel Direct offers advice and hotel reservations both online and through it call centres on 08700 550 550.

You can check out Hotel Direct’s Gift Vouchers at: http://www.hoteldirect.co.uk/giftvouchers.htm

Budapestlets are a leading accommodation agency providing quality apartments in the heart of central Pest and Buda offering a wide variety of renovated period properties for short and long term rental. The range of properties presented on the web site provides quality alternatives to some of Budapest’s expensive hotel accommodation.

Budapestlets have designed the new web site to make viewing their extensive portfolio of apartments easier and much more interactive and intuitive for the sites visitors. The new site layout is clean and offers a simple navigation system, easy to follow booking facility and some excellent information on the apartments and the city.

There is an easy to enter apartment search facility for both its long term and short term accommodation options which then presents the apartments with extensive details on the properties with photographs, apartment layouts, and local points of interest, location maps and the on line booking function.

The booking facility has been made user friendly and according to marketing manager Andrew Laidler “will enhance the users experience and provides a one stop shop for everyone looking for quality but affordable apartment accommodation. We have the most extensive range of quality apartments supported with unrivalled service which is now supported with a great looking clean and functional commercial web site. This has helped us to enhance our clients experience and provides an exceptional showcase for what we believe to be the best portfolio of holiday and commercial lets offered anywhere in the city”

The web site can be accessed through www.budapestlets.com and the success of both the business and new web site has been recently recognised by the sites inclusion in the globally acknowledged traveller’s bible the rough guide.

UK Venues has the answer in the shape of a

quick and easy to use online venue directory

Anyone whose job description involves finding venues for business functions can relax, because their job just got easier!

UK Venues (http://www.ukvenues.co.uk) is an online directory of venues covering all locations throughout the United Kingdom.

The directory provides users with direct access to a wide range of venues suitable for a variety of commercial functions, from large-scale awards ceremonies, networking events and seminars to smaller scale business meetings and conferences.

UK Venues is free to use and offers many useful features for the time-strapped venue seeker. From conference halls to hotels, castles to football stadiums; whatever the function being organised, UK Venues makes it easy to find the ideal location.

TIME SAVING

Using factors such as occasion, location and venue type as search criteria presents the user with a list of possibilities in under a minute. Venues are listed in an easy to read format showing their distance from the specified location. To save time, a checked selection can be contacted all together in one hit using a simple form.

GOING THE EXTRA MILE

Company Director Navjot Kaur specifically wanted UK Venues to be the directory that went the extra mile. She says, “We don’t just provide names and addresses of venues; through our directory users can see finer details such as room capacity; parking facilities, disabled access, services offered like catering and photography, and lots more.”

An increasing number of venues also feature 360 degree virtual tours to make it even easier to see exactly what they’ve got to offer.

So for anyone charged with the task of venue hunting, a visit to UK Venues at http://www.ukvenues.co.uk is recommended to help find that perfect business function location – quickly, and with ease.