ROME, ITALY, July 18, 2014 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Oscars of the industry, the World Travel Awards is a prestigious organization that recognizes the best of the best in travel and tourism, and the list of Travel Technology 2014 nominees has just been released. In its 21st year, this international awards event is recognizing PrntoHotel for the first time in its hotel comparison website category. In fact, ProntoHotel is the only Italian business other than Alitalia, candidate for "Europe's Leading Airline to North America 2014," to be nominated. Based in Rome, ProntoHotel is up against some ofthe biggestnames in online travel, including 2013 winner HotelsCombined (headquartered in Sydney) and runners up Kayak and Trivago. "For ProntoHotel to benominated in the travel tech category is a huge achievement," says CEO Paolo Mazzara, "particularly being the only Italian company in an industry dominated by foreign businesses." This year, ProntoHotel has strived to perfect its hotelmetasearch engine's technology by implementing an avant-garde software, which helped it achieve the nominton for "World's Leading Hotel Comparison Website 2014" within the "Travel Technology Nominees 2014" section of the World Travel Awards.

With this recognition, ProntoHotel will underline its significance not only within the Italian travel industry, but it will also help highlight the necessity to continue to constantly invest in technology and the Internet.

Justasthe Oscarsarefor film, theWorldTravelAwardsnominationalone isa greathonor for ProntoHotel. Nowthrough October 19, 2014, travelers can vote for ProntoHotel as the "World's Leading Hotel Comparison Website" at:http://www.worldtravelawards.com/voteforprontohotel2014.

About ProntoHotel.com (www.prontohotel.com)ProntoHotel.com is a leading hotel comparison website that simultaneously searches over 600,000 properties around the globe in order to find travelers the best rate. Comparing prices of the leading hotel booking sites, as well as the official sites of individual hotel chains, ProntoHotel helps save clients time and money by doing the hard work for them.