The hotel operator now offers its online customers detailed maps, with zoom in/out functionality, showing the exact location of its hotels. The maps will help Moat House guests find the hotel they require quickly and easily. They should also help to increase the volume of bookings made via the Moat House web site; providing users with more information about their destinations helps to build confidence, bringing down many of the barriers to booking online.

Visitors to www.moathouse.com hover their mouse over the UK region in which they’d like to find a hotel, then select one of the locations that subsequently appears on-screen to access details of the hotels at that location. Details provided include a brief description of the hotel, a 360-degree view of it, and full contact details. To see a scalable, easy-to-read map of the area, on which the exact location of the hotel is pinpointed with a red circle, users click on the “Local Map” link followed by the “View scalable map here” link.

Mirabel Smith, web site manager for Moat House Hotels, commented, “Feedback about the maps from our customers has been very positive, and the increase in online reservations that we’ve noted since the deployment of Multimap’s service shows that we made the right choice of mapping partner.

“Right from the outset, the quality of service that we have received has been of the very highest calibre. The implementation of the service was smooth and rapid, and we’re delighted to be working with such a professional service provider.”

Willem Mijnarends, Head of Sales, “We are really pleased to be working with Moat House Hotels to ensure that online customers have all the location information they need to make a decision about whether they’d like to stay at a particular hotel. Our maps are precise, easy-to-read, and easy to print off and pocket so that travellers can consult them en route to their preferred Moat House Hotel.”

About Multimap

Multimap is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered on mobile, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms and in multiple languages.

The public website, www.multimap.com, provides a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of Europe, USA, Canada and Australia; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; weather forecasts; links to location information; and services such as hotel, restaurant and entertainment booking. The public site attracts over 7.3 million unique users, registers more than 140 million page impressions every month, and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the UK. Multimap recently featured in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league table of fastest-growing unquoted UK companies across all sectors.

 About Moat House

 Moat House Hotels operates 33 hotels across the UK and a further 48 hotels throughout Europe including the prestigious Bilderberg Group in Holland, Queens Hotels and Holiday Inn brands in Germany.  For further information, visit the website at www.moathousehotels.com.