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Hostelworld.com boosts language content

Hotel Booking This week, Hostelworld.com, the leading provider of online lodging reservations to the budget, independent and youth travel market, added new language platforms to its customer booking capabilities.

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Travel Agency This brings the total languages available on the website to 15.

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Cheap Hotel The new languages are provided to serve customers from new markets where Hostelworld.com is experiencing significant booking growth.

MP3 player, audio book player from Audible.com, JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, and calculator. In addition, optional software packages such as the Language Guide and Travel Guide (sold separately on SD Data cards) can be added for language and content support.

Flight Booking These added offerings include the European languages Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch and Portuguese, in addition to the Eastern European languages of Czech, Hungarian and Polish. Along with English, previously existing languages include French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese.

The savings figure is based on an internal study comparing the price for travel for two passengers of booking a flight and hotel together using priceline.com's Vacation Packages to booking the same hotel and similar flight itinerary (same travel dates and origin and destination cities) separately on priceline.com. The Vacation Package price yielded a savings of up to $325 over the separate prices of the same hotel and similar flight itinerary.

Travel Agent Hostelworld.com has also experienced enormous growth in bookings from Asia, particularly the Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets, leading to the addition of these languages on the site.

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Hotel Chicago Niamh Ni Mhir, Hostelworld.com marketing director, said Travel is an international endeavour, and so is our customer base, with more than 40 percent of our customers coming from non-English speaking countries.

Online Booking Adding these new languages makes it even easier for these customers to book reservations. We plan to add even more languages in the future, with Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Slovak and Indian coming online later this year

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