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For those of us who crave unique travel opportunities, there is no better place to stay than a bed & breakfast inn or a boutique hotel, where service and style go hand in hand. Here’s a cool travel tool that is quickly becoming a hit. Computer giant Apple and ILoveInns.com, publishers of more than 60 travel books, have teamed up to create an easy way for inngoers to find and book a stay at a country inn or B&B. InnTouch, new and free downloadable software, is now available exclusively for those with an iPhone or iPod Touch.

There are more than 3,500 inns listed in the InnTouch system, including B&Bs, country inns and boutique hotels from more than 2,000 cities in the United States and Canada. All you have to do is go to the Apple App Store or ILoveInns.com and download the software onto your iPhone or iPod touch. After that, you can search for inns by name or by location. When you are ready to make a reservation, you simply touch the “Call” button and you are connected to the inn automatically.

InnTouch for iPhone provides accurate travel information, updated around the clock, from inn owners and the iLoveInns staff, as well as up to 10 photos per inn. As an added bonus, ILoveInns.com has included more than 1,200 favorite innkeeper recipes on the application, so you can create some inn ambiance in your own home.

Chris Monahan, chief technology officer at iLoveInns.com, was the lead designer of the application and explains, “You can search for inns by city, or seeing what’s around using the “Nearby” feature. This pulls your GPS coordinates and shows you nearby inns within 60 miles.”

With the phone being an all-in-one device, a person can call with one touch; not dialing each digit of the phone number. They can see the inn address on a map, get directions, save the address in their contact list as well as email or visit the inn website with single click actions.

“We plan on adding many new features in the upcoming year,” Monahan said, “but after our initial launch, InnTouch already has received great response from travelers who are using it worldwide.