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The Hotels.ru history

2016 year
June

Hotels.ru mobile version update.For the comfort of the mobile users, IT-department launched the update for mobile version of Hotels.ru, perfectly suit to smartphones and tablets of the new generation. Among the advantages: brand new algorithm to reduce traffic without loosing the speed of page loading, friendly-user interface design.

2015 year
December

Re-design of the web-site Hotels.ru and launching Beta-testing of the new version among the audience.

October

Completing the transition to a secure https-protocol. From this moment Hotels.ru guarantee absolutely safe of all actions of users. Before it was only personal data safe.

August

Appearance of the option "price statistics for cities and hotels". From this moment Hotels.ru users can see the dynamics of the prices across all destinations and hotels in a simple diagram. This feature simplifies planning the most budget trip.

June

Hotels.ru became the official hotel operator of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015.

May

Significant increase in the base. Now with the help of the site of Hotels.ru travelers can book hotels in more than 1 499 624 hotels around the world!!

February

Signing a contract with Yandex. Another major partner in the impressive partnership list of Hotels.ru!

2014 year
December

Connection with Expedia. Significant expansion of hotels data available on Hotels.ru. More than 30 articles-guidelines about most popular cities of Russia and abroad are published on the web-site.

November

Adding filter "Pay now". New function gives an ability to buy a room in hotel immediately, according to the current exchange rate. In this case no any changes in exchange rate can disturb the client of Hotels.ru on day of check in. Release update for mobile app Hotels.ru for iOS and Android. New interface allows users to get more information for less time and actions. Functional and visual characteristics are upgraded as well as search page.

October

Conclusion of the contract with Expedia, the leading international online travel agency; the prospect of increasing hotels quantity in the database Hotels.ru

September

Сommunity "Hotels.ru" (vk.com/hotels) in social network Vkontakte (vk.com) got an official status.

April

Hotels.ru successfully realized another step of the annual competition «Russian Hotel Awards.Moscow 2014» from 7 till 30 April. 1000 hotels of Moscow were participants in 6 nominations of contest.

March

Integration with TravelLine Channel Manager that brought important improvements in Extranet’s work. All data of hotels instantly deliver to the Hotels.ru channel. Then the database of hotels considerably expanded.

February

Presentation Hotels.ru for iPad app. Hotels.ru became the first Russian online-service for booking hotels in tablet version. The database of hotels in Hotels.ru for iPad exceeds European rivals. Hotels.ru for iPad also gave users the ability book hotels without a credit card.

2013 year
November

Hotels.ru plugged in one more booking-online service - Ostrovok. User got an ability to have more detailed price comparison with other services.

October

Held annual competition "Best hotels of Russia.Russian Hotel Awards».

September

New version of Hotels.ru app for Android.

July

Successful integration with new Yandex.Search system - Yandex Islands.

June

We've connected 57190 hotels with a free cancellation, including unique hotels in Germany and Switzerland.

May

An Android app to book hotel rooms via hotels.ru has been launched.

March

We are hosting the ‘Russian Hotel Awards. Moscow 2013’ event.

February

The hotels.ru iPhone app is listed among Apple Editors choice picks.

January

The hotels.ru iPhone app reaches TOP 1 in the Travel Apps section of the Russian Apple AppStore time and again.

2012 year
December

An iPhone app to book hotel rooms via hotels.ru is available. The first iPhone reservation has been made.

November

The first victory ceremony at the Russian Hotel Awards 2012 took place.

August

The first ‘Russian Hotel Awards. St Petersburg 2012’ has opened.

July

Our hotel service has begun to make profits.

June

A mobile version of hotels.ru is now available. The first mobile reservation has been made.

May

Our groups on Facebook and vkontakte are now running. We are the first of the Russian hotel booking services that provide pay-as-you-check-out deals from thousands of hotels at a 50% discount.

April

Online hotel booking with instant confirmation without using a credit card is now available. This is the first time in Russia that customers can choose to find hotels that accept reservations without a credit card confirmation.

March

The service has been launched and is now fully functional. This is the first time in Russia that customers can make reservations via hotels.ru, receive a confirmation on our form, and pay as they check out of our partners hotels.

February

Direct contracts with hotels are being signed.

January

A new reservation mechanism has been launched in a technical non-design mode which is still fully functional and allows making reservations.

2011 year
September

The company is opened. A new pay-as-you-check-out reservation mechanism and the Extranet access system for hotels are being designed.