HRS, the hotel portal has optimised its free app for iPad, offering users access to more than 250,000 hotels, an improved quick search facility and guest reviews. Users can also personalise their search using the “My HRS” page, opting to view their booking history and favourite hotels.

“We are seeing a strong increase in reservations made via the iPad amongst leisure customers”, commented HRS CEO, Tobias Ragge. “Due to its user friendly functionality and size, it is particularly suited to browsing and is now our second most popular mobile reservation channel, which is why we are continuously extending the features of our iPad app.”

The Apple tablet is an ideal mobile tool to facilitate hotel bookings as the screen is larger than smartphones and the technology copes well with data intensive applications such as viewing hotel videos. No other mobile apparatus is used by HRS users more for viewing hotels than the Apple tablet PC.

The apps basic functions include a location-based hotel search using the practical map view and the standard HRS search form. Registered business clients can also access corporate rates of up to 30 percent off.