PLANNING a trip to America and want a reliable website from where to book heavily discounted hotel rooms, airlines seats or rental cars? Then look no further than Hotwire.com.
Hotwire is a discount travel website that offers low prices on airfare, hotel, rental car and vacation packages by selling off unsold travel inventory at a discounted price.
Hotwire offers such low prices because it has relationships with major travel providers to help them fill airline seats, hotel rooms, and rental cars that would otherwise go unsold.
Price conscious travellers everywhere rely on Hotwire for amazing deals.
The catch is Hotwire uses a sales model known as opaque, which means it does not identify the participating companies until after the purchaser has paid so as not to directly compete with regular retail sales of the travel partners.
This is so Hotwire partners can clear out their supply and sell inventory that would otherwise go unsold.
Hotwire reveals the prices and the travel dates of all their products upfront and does not sell via a ‘bidding’ or ‘auction’ model.