You have to hand it to Expedia - they never miss a trick.
Barack Obama-mania is about to kick in across the US and Expedia is seizing on the inevitable desire to see the senator from Illinois take the oath of office in January.
Within hours of Democrat Obama's victory overnight in the US, Expedia had an Inauguration 2009 landing page ready with information about Washington DC's hotels, airports and details of the parade on January 20.
Users can also book a hotel, flight etc from a widget on the left hand side of the page (shame they've used dates for November as the default rather than late-January, but we'll forgive them).
Expect other OTAs to follow...
We suspect Expedia is quietly relieved at the outcome of the election.
An inauguration for Senator John McCain - as his campaign rallies and concession speech have shown - would probably not have had the same pulling power as the Obama one will undoubtedly have in ten weeks time.
In the meantime, some good exposure for the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago, where Obama, family and close advisors were holed up last night as the results came in. [See Barack Obama in Chicago...But where is he staying? for more]
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