Friday, January 30, 2009

B&B Application Selected by iTunes as 'Staff Favorite'

iLoveInns.com's New InnTouch Application for iPhone(TM) Gets Great Reviews

DANA POINT, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- InnTouch, the first iPhone bed & breakfast application, was selected as a "Staff Favorite" by iTunes on their store. American Historic Inns, Inc. and iLoveInns.com released the application in December for iPhone. As the leading publisher of bed & breakfast and country inns information, the company plans to continually develop the product. Future releases will include consumer reviews about individual bed & breakfasts and country inns, as well as the ability to display inn videos.

The application is available at the iPhone App Store for free and gives users access to iLoveInns' carefully selected inn listings for more than 3,000 inns and small hotels in the United States and Canada. It includes descriptions and detailed information on B&Bs in nearly 2,000 cities and offers 10,000 photos. It features push-to-call capabilities and functionality that allows users to make reservations. Travelers can search for lodgings using GPS, current address and city. An additional feature highlights more than 1,200 recipes of favorite dishes served at B&Bs and country inns nationwide.

"You can search for inns by city or see what's around you using the Nearby feature. This pulls your GPS coordinates and shows you nearby inns within 60 miles," notes Chris Monahan, the lead developer. "With the phone being an all-in-one device, a person can call the inn for reservations with one touch, not dialing each digit of the phone number. They can see the inn's address on a map, get directions, save the address in their contact list, as well as e-mail or visit the inn's Web site with single-click actions," he added.

InnTouch is an application available on the iPhone App Store. Apple, the Apple logo and iPhone are trademarks of Apple, Inc.

About American Historic Inns and iLoveInns.com

iLoveInns.com is the only inn directory online with inn descriptions written by travel writers instead of innkeepers and offers articles and in-depth travel features. There are 19,000 inns on the Web site. A cookbook showcasing recipes from innkeepers' test kitchens is available both on iLoveInns and on InnTouch available from the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod.