Active Hotels and Reporo announce UK's first real-time hotel booking service via mobile

Online hotel reservation providers Active Hotels and mobile shopping
service Reporo have joined hands to offer what is being termed as UK's
first real-time hotel booking service via mobile.

According to Active Hotels, from rural B&Bs to five-star city centre
corporate hotels, users will have a choice of over 3,500 hotels across
the UK. Furthermore, Active Hotels' complete European inventory of over
11,000 hotels is set to be made available on Reporo over the coming
months.

"The Reporo service is the perfect solution for time-pressed business
travellers and those taking spontaneous breaks and unscheduled overnight
stays.  The search function allows users to find a wide selection of
hotels within a specified radius of their chosen location or simply
search by hotel name," said the company.

Reporo links directly with the live inventory on the Active Hotels
server which only displays hotels where rooms are actually available.
Full hotel information is displayed, including a photo of the hotel, a
description of amenities and maps to help find the hotel.

"Booking is easy, secure and completed within minutes," said an official
statement.

Reporo is the considered as the first mobile shopping service which can
be used across multiple operator networks, including O2, Orange,
T-Mobile, Virgin and Vodafone and the company says this  means that
anyone with a Reporo-enabled GPRS phone can use the Reporo service,
regardless of which network provides their mobile phone access.

"Travellers don't have to be tech-savvy to use Reporo; all they need is
a GPRS mobile phone.  In order to activate Reporo, users simply visit
www.reporo.com <http://www.reporo.com/>  to register their details and
follow the easy instructions to get Reporo on their phone.  During the
initial registration process credit card details are input once online
and any subsequent purchases via mobile are authorised by a personal
four-digit PIN which is known only to the user. Within seconds of
completing registration, users receive a text message containing the
Reporo software, and once downloaded they can use the service
immediately," said the company.