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Rose Hotel launches mobile website

In our continuing effort to keep up with fast-changing technology and the habits and lifestyles of our guests, the Rose Hotel has launched a mobile version of our website at m.rosehotel.net. Basically, a simplified version of our website that’s faster loading and more easily viewed and navigated on the small screens of smart phones and other mobile devices.

For example, the home page on our mobile site offers just our toll-free phone number (800-843-9540) and five links that take users to the most important and most used capabilities and information resources on our site:

1. About Us
2. Online Reservations
3. Google Map
4. Directions
5. Full Site

As the final link indicates, you always have the option of going to the full-scale site if you want to access our complete inventory of services.

We decided it was imperative that the Rose Hotel mobilize its website. That’s because more people (especially travelers) are using smart phones – the Android,  iPhone, BlackBerry, EVO – and other mobile devices to conduct business as well as check sports scores, make airline reservations, find restaurants and book hotel stays.

According to a 2009 comScore study, mobile users now comprise a group larger than one-third the size of desktop web users – and growing fast.

Check it out. Simply go to the Rose Hotel website and click on the Mobile Website button on the top navigation bar and you’ll be connected to our new mobile site. With images and text designed to fit a smaller screen and faster loading speed, its user-friendly features allow you to book a reservation on line, get directions, display a Google map or speak directly to the front desk staff. The new mobile site is fast and easy to use. Try it for your next booking.

To date, very few websites are mobile-enabled. Among the exceptions are big media sites such as ESPN, financial service sites like Wells Fargo Bank and travel sites like ours.

Like media and banking sites, the Rose Hotel serves people on the go. Our guests are travelers and they work and make decisions on the fly, which means we have to do whatever we can to accommodate them with first-class customer service, whether it involves human contact or digital interaction.

Our mobile site comes on the heels of our recently rebuilt and designed full-scale website. Both our standard website and mobile site were built and are hosted by Vysus, a San Francisco Bay Area-based company that deals in professional website and e-marketing services.

There are more innovations to come. We promise to keep you posted.

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