Hopper expands its price prediction technology to hotels, initially in NYC
Hopper, a top-ranked travel app that helps
The Hopper application is already one of the better flight search tools on the market today because of its ability to make determinations about the best times to fly, which it does by analyzing historical ticket prices.
The app itself is fairly popular, with over 17 million installs and a #13 rating in the Travel category on the U.S. App Store.
The company said in September that it monitors 10 to 15 billion flight prices per day, and is selling $1.5 million in flights per day to its app users.
However, this is the first time the company has offered the ability to search for travel deals beyond flights in the two years since its debut.
As it does with flights, the new version of Hopper will predict future hotel pricing and tell you when to buy or wait to get the best deal on a room rate. Hopper says its technology is 95 percent accurate up to six months in advance, so it can be used for planning trips far in the future.