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Hotel date entry web design & usability

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Report summary

This report reviews the designs used today for entering dates into hotel booking websites.

It proposes a tested, easy-to-use, date-entry layout style and format that can be implemented on any hotel booking website.

This report also suggests 25 date-entry design guidelines.

This report is based on the analysis of the following:

  • A functionality evaluation of 109 hotel websites (19 travel agencies, 68 hotel booking agencies, 22 hotel chains)
  • A usability test with eight users conducted on four websites

Key findings

91% of hotel-booking websites fail to follow the most important guidelines.

Who should read this report?

  • Web designers & product managers of hotel booking websites
  • Anyone with an interest in making hotel booking websites easier to use

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