Hotels.nl

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Hotels.nl
IndustryHotel Booking
FoundedGroningen, Netherlands, November 2001
FoundersKees Eldering and Henriëtte IJzelenberg.
Headquarters
Groningen
,
The Netherlands
Number of locations
 Groningen
Area served
The Netherlands and Belgium
Number of employees
30
Website http://www.hotels.nl/

Hotels.nl, founded in 2001, is a hotel booking site for the Netherlands and Belgium. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It was founded by Kees Eldering and Henriette IJzelenberg. [4] [5] [6]

In April 2006, Hotels.nl launched their sheep advertising campaign. [1] [7] Although they were not the first to utilize sheep for advertisement, they were the first to do so in the Netherlands. [1] The sheep were equipped with royal blue waterproof blankets with the company’s logo printed on them. [1] [3] [8] [9] The insulation on the blankets is washed in citronella, to repel parasites. [2] Though it brought a smile, the Mayor of Skarsterlân, Bert Kuiper, fined the company 1,000 euros a day for violating the town’s ban of highway advertisement. [1] [10] Thanks to the sheep, in 2007, AMMA awarded Hotels.nl for having the best media stunt of the year for 2006. [11]

In 2012, Hotels.nl partnered with Noordlease for customers to lease the VW Up, equipped with Hotels.nl’s logo on the side. [12] [13]

As of 2018, the website is available in Dutch, English, and German. It is affiliated with over 2000 different hotels. [14] [15]

Owner Kees Eldering was short member of the Dutch alt-right political party Forum for Democracy, but left the party because he found the party not democratic enough. [16]

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