firstforfrance .com and Active Hotels- Definitive Solutions for Travelers to France

firstforfrance.com, the internet guide’ to France and Active Hotels, a leading provider of confirmed online reservations to the independent hotel industry, have signed an agreement to promote online reservations across France.

firstforfrance.com is fast becoming the definitive Internet Guide to France. This unique web-site has been built on the Administrative Structure of France to enable the browser to research their short stays or holidays anywhere within the 96 ‘Departments’ in France. Whether it is choosing a Hotel, a restaurant or deciding which activities and events to see, firstforfrance.com offers all this information and more. Active Hotels will now provide users of firstforfrance.com with booking facilities, information and real-time reservation capabilities for 2,500 hotels.

firstforfrance.com will be developing the service with Active Hotels to provide hotel search functionality and access to special offer hotel breaks across France.
firstforfrance.com has already established a number of key partnerships with carriers such as SeaFrance and RailEurope and this new agreement with Active Hotels will further enhance the quality of the site. “We are very excited to be working with Active Hotels,” comments David Rosslyn-Smith, Managing Director of firstforfrance.com.

“The internet now plays such a significant part in people’s travel plans, triggering a huge upsurge in the number of people demanding information and online booking facilities to meet their travel and accommodation requirements. They are aware that booking travel and accommodation separately online can often save money. firstforfrance.com in conjunction with Active Hotels, is making France more accessible and affordable, encouraging people to travel more frequently and perhaps stay longer. For anyone contemplating going to France, firstforfrance.com should be their first stop.”

Active Hotels is currently working with over two thousand hotels in the United Kingdom and is rapidly expanding its coverage of France. By providing easy to use tools for hoteliers, it allows them to benefit from the ever-increasing growth of online bookings and guests can easily confirm hotel reservations online.

Jeremy Storr, Active Hotels comments, “We view firstforfrance.com as an important partner for France. It is a very exciting time for us and the growth and determination of partners such as firstforfrance.com ensure that customers get the best possible experience from the Internet.”

About Active Hotels

Active Hotels is creating mutually beneficial partnerships that enable both hoteliers and distribution partners to capture the highly lucrative market for online hotel reservations. Active Hotels is currently one of the fastest growing providers of confirmed online reservations to the European hotel industry.
The company is successfully delivering a growing number of reservations and increased revenue to thousands of hotels across the UK and Europe by exposing them to a global audience through its extensive distribution network. With thousands of European hotels under contract, Active Hotels has the largest and arguably the most unique collection of properties in the UK. Active Hotels’ properties have visibility on over 1,500 websites across the Internet and electronic networks, processing almost a million room nights per annum. As AHs’ hotel network continues to grow, the company aims to bring its hotels and distribution partners to the forefront of the European online reservation market.

For more information, go to www.activehotels.com or contact Maria Murphy at Active Hotels on +44 (0)1223 578134 or email- [email protected]