Two curated online travel platforms, Porter & Sail and Design Hotels, are collaborating to deliver what is described as “an ultimate mobile hotel experience.”
New York-based Porter & Sail, a “multichannel platform that offers a new way to book, plan and experience a hotel” has launched its new mobile app with real time booking to make this experience possible.
By partnering with Germany-headquartered Design Hotels, which has a member portfolio of 300 properties in more than 50 destinations worldwide, travellers can now directly book these properties from the app. They include iconic hotels such as Gramercy Park Hotel in New York, Nobis Copenhagen, Istoria Santorini in Greece and S Hotel in Taipei.
Local culture is the name of the game at Taipei’s iconic S Hotel – a Design Hotels member.
Guests using the mobile booking app benefit from real time rates, special offers, perks, and access to hotel specific content. Design Hotels’ member hotels can use “this new smart platform” to enhance the digital guest experience with on-the-go hotel check in, keyless room entry, 24-hour concierge chat, plus delivering exclusive in-house hotel content, upgrades and offers to the guests.
Both brands will also work together to create custom content that brings to life the story of carefully-selected hotels, and the visionaries behind them. This will include narratives to be featured on the brands’ respective social and web outlets as well as exclusive content positioned in the Porter & Sail app for ‘smart and seamless’ discovery by guests before, during and after their stay.
As community building is a key brand pillar for both Porter & Sail and Design Hotels they aim to build a community of engaged travellers seeking Design Hotels Original Experiences, both at home and abroad.
Caitlin Zaino, CEO of Porter & Sail, likened the partnership as one “that marries the world’s finest design hotels with best in class technology”.
For Serdar Kutucu, executive vice president brand & strategy of Design Hotels, the collaboration “heralds a remarkable new journey for two brands wholly committed to facilitating original hotel experiences.”
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