Points International Adds Priceline Network of Hotels to Its Booking Engines


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New functionality added by Points International grants users of that network access to the Priceline library of hotels. That's great for frequent flyers — especially those with miles to burn.

Points.com, which operates a virtual wallet for travel loyalty programs as well as for a variety of engines to use and exchange those currencies, added some major new functionality this week. As of Wednesday, the hotel booking engine used by Points.com and its partners now has access to all of the inventory that Priceline uses. For consumers, this means that the utility of the Points.com wallet or any of its associated loyalty programs, just went up dramatically. The new inventory has only be integrated into Pointshound.com, the search engine that Points.com