Accorhotels.com, Accor’s multi-brand booking portal, has won the Travel d’Or award for the best hotel website. The site was chosen by French Internet users and the prize was awarded by a panel of experts from the travel and e-commerce industries.
Accor’s SVP E-commerce, Romain Roulleau, said: “We are very proud of this prize, which rewards websites that make a difference on the Internet as well as the outstanding work of the Accorhotels e-commerce team. We are committed to continuously reworking our website and have already significantly improved the customer experience. Our initial achievements include a new, more modern homepage, and the development of new services to help our guests prepare and organize their trips.”
This award was created in 2009 by Frédéric Vanhoutte, founder of Eventiz. It consists of a contest which allows Internet users to vote for their favorite website from among 320 tourism professionals’ commercial websites divided into twelve categories. The five finalists per category are then presented before a panel of experts, which makes the final selection.
Accorhotels.com is Accor’s global booking portal. It is available in 16 languages and 32 geolocated versions. Each month it notches up over 24 million visits and a daily average of 45,000 bookings. The Accorhotels.com website has been a key player in Europe’s e-tourism sector for more than 10 years, offering a large portfolio of brands, from luxury to economy. The website guarantees the best rate and the best available room.
For more information go to www.accorhotels.com.
