{"id":22536,"date":"2012-05-14T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=22536"},"modified":"2016-12-15T04:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T10:46:21","slug":"smartphone-users-1-in-5-book-hotels-or-flights-on-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/smartphone-users-1-in-5-book-hotels-or-flights-on-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone users: 1 in 5 book hotels or flights on mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22537\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-22537\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/smartphone-users-1-in-5-book-hotels-or-flights-on-mobile\/iphoneapp-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22537\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22537\" title=\"iPhoneapp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/iPhoneapp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/iPhoneapp.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/iPhoneapp-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smartphone, smart trips. Download the free Orbitz app for iPhone to book flights, hotels and rental cars.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>By Valerie Moloney<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come a long way from brick-and-mortar travel agencies and paper tickets. Cut to 2012, when one in five smartphone users are booking their hotels and flights on their mobile devices, according to a comScore study. In a fourth <a title=\"Orbitz: Mobile searches may yield better hotel deals\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/hotels\/post\/2012\/05\/orbitz-mobile-hotel-deals\/691470\/1\">blog post<\/a> for <em>USA Today<\/em>, Orbitz CEO Barney Harford spotlights our growing appetite for mobile travel apps, and the cost savings for booking mobile-only hotel deals. At Orbitz, we saw a 12 percent jump in customers using a mobile-optimized version of our <a title=\"Orbitz Mobile Website\" href=\"http:\/\/m.orbitz.com\/\">website<\/a> or a native app in the first quarter.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Smartphone users: How often do you use your mobile device to book travel? Tell us on Twitter @orbitz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the Hotels by Orbitz app for <a title=\"Orbitz Hotels app for iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/orbitz-hotels\/id445927435\" target=\"_self\">iPad<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get the free Orbitz app for <a title=\"Orbitz app for Android\" href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=com.orbitz\" target=\"_self\">Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Orbitz Flights, Hotels, Cars for iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/orbitz-flights-hotels-cars\/id403546234\" target=\"_self\">Orbitz\u00a0      Flights, Hotels, Cars for iPhone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Orbitz Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/b\/marketing\/mobile\" target=\"_self\">Orbitz Mobile products<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT1lMzZhZTJkNzI0YzdhMGQ3NmEyMjI4ZmJiMTA1NDU2OQ==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Valerie Moloney We&#8217;ve come a long way from brick-and-mortar travel agencies and paper tickets. 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