Show photos of attractions near your hotel with Panoramio

by Josiah Mackenzie on September 10, 2008

Cleartrip recently announced the addition of Panoramio photos to their hotel booking engine.   Panoramio is a photo sharing website that organizes pictures by where they were taken – putting them on a map.

If you manage a hotel website, you could use Panoramio’s API to access their database of over 12 million photos, and help visitors get a better understanding of what there is to see around your hotel.

Using new technologies like this helps you create an destination resource website.  By guiding a potential visitor’s discovery process, you reduce their need to go elsewhere for this information.  It sells through education.  (And you just might reduce your 3rd-party booking fees.)



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