Directness is the essential spirit of internet. Breaking the traditional pattern of hotel reservation, Luopan hotel search engine provides a platform for the direct transaction between hotels and consumers which gives consumers a lower reservation price and expand the hotel’s occupancy rate. Meanwhile, large numbers of distributed customs are guided to hotels, helping the hotels to develop their loyal consumers. Luopan is the bridge between consumers and hotels without interference of the transactions between them. Luopan has the obligation to provide good services and advanced management systems, also has the responsibility to protect consumers’ rights. Luopan’ s core task is to build the best and most professional hotel search engine in China, eliminating intermediary agencies, helping with the global promotion of China’s hotels and assisting the consumers to find the most suitable hotels, to get the most personalized services and the cheapest price.

As a vertical search engine, the greatest difference between Luopan and other general website search engines is that Luopan makes structured information extraction of the website messages and provides information and relative services of certain value to a given area, a specified group of people and the particular need. Luopan’s characteristics can be summarized as “Professional, Precise, and Profound” (3Ps) with characteristics of the industry .Comparing with the large amount disordered information of general search engines, vertical search engine is more focused, specific and profound.

Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Russian are supported. As a real internationalized search engine, Luopan will help the hotels to march toward the world.

Besides searching according to the city, name, airport, price, star rating and amenities etc., a unique function of Luopan is to search by landmark which is more convenient, more precise and more personalized!

Combing with Chinese characteristics and basing on the advanced ideas and successful experience of international hotels, Luopan successfully puts forward its hotel search engine promotion services including specially preferential reservation, vouchers (gift tickets /suite tickets), packages, last-minute promotion and coupon promotion etc. which of great help of the on-line selling of cooperative hotels’ products.

Luopan’s bidding service helps single member to bargain with hotels. The member can raise his reservation requirements and set the upper limit of target prices according to his own schedule and accommodation demands. After got the member’s bidding, Luopan will help the member to search the hotels which satisfy his requirements and bargain with them, Luopan also has team purchase service to help the members to unite together to bargain with hotels. The members can choose the hotels satisfied with their requirements form the team purchase list and issues their own application intentions.

In the traditional media world, the contents of media are generally created by professionals and spread by proprietary platform while in the new media world, the contents of media is generally created by consumers, including consumers’ e-mails, texts in public forums, blogs, URL of social organizations and individuals, and so on which can be obtained through open platform. Usually the reliability of these information is higher than the traditional media, so when the consumers face the choices of hotels, they won’t only believe in hotel’s advertisements, but prefer to adopt other consumers’ residential experience. In view of this, Luopan establishes a complete set of consumer feedback system of the hotel credibility evaluation. Credibility evaluation is the indicator of credibility between consumers and hotels. As a user of Luopan hotel search engine, you can make evaluations about the services, amenities, environments etc. of the hotel you stay. Please be cautious to make the right judgment when you give the evaluation because it will be permanently saved in Luopan’s record.

Combing consumers’ suggestions with Luopan’s own investigations, the system gives object descriptions and sorting to the hotels to ensure the consumers to get the most fair and objective recommendations. The system also monitor and analyze the important indicators like consumers’ complaints, real-time network performance etc. with occasional inspections. It will directly delete the relative hotels from the search list which failed the standard too many times to reach the system early-warning level and with high unqualified rate for one time. This kind of management method will filter the false information in hotel industry in some degree objectively, so as to make consumers, whose independent choices are effectively protected, avoid possible misleading information and losses.