Why booking a hotel room on your phone can earn you huge savings on Booking.com

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Booking.com tells hoteliers “you can increase your bookings from mobile devices by up to 30 per cent by offering special mobile rates”. This is “a special discounted rate that’s only visible when travellers use our app or access our website via a mobile browser.” The idea is that people will be attracted with special deals, especially millennials – people born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s. The booking platform tells hoteliers: “The majority of reservations on our platform are made using mobile devices, so offering a mobile rate helps you tap into this potential. “Targeting mobile users is more important than ever, since increasing numbers of travellers use mobile devices when both thinking ahead to future trips and booking spontaneously.” open image in gallery Ruf night: A single Economy Room at the German hotel Is there a fixed discount?