Just launched this week is 71miles.com, our newest affiliate and the first product to integrate the Kayak hotel search API. In their own words:

Most getaways are short, local trips. 71Miles is a growing network of travel sites focused exclusively on regional travel, nothing else.

We cover weekend destinations within driving distance of major metropolitan areas—Northern California today, Washington DC Metro in March, and a complete national network in the coming months. Our authoritative destination guides cover sights, activities, and hotel and restaurant reviews, written by local experts with decades of travel-writing experience for publications such as Lonely Planet, Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Fodor’s, National Geographic Traveler, and Sunset.

The Adams at 71miles were able to integrate Kayak hotel results into their destination pages very easily. They say:

“The Northern California edition of 71Miles covers travel destinations like South Lake Tahoe and Big Sur. It’s important to us that the advertising we display is useful to our users, and presented in context; if somebody is looking at South Lake Tahoe content, we want to show real-time pricing and availability for hotels in South Lake Tahoe. With the Kayak Hotel API, is was easy for us to customize the hotel ads we display. It looking like a partnership that will be ultimately be good for our users, Kayak, and 71Miles”

Got a travel site? Want cool Kayak functionality? Check out Kayak Labs for 500 ways to tweak your own site. Well, not 500, but a wicked lot.

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