Amazon officially announced to end the Destinations service which belongs to its subordinate hotel booking service on the other day. This service just has been rolled out for 6 months.

Destinations was released in April by Amazon, helping the users for travel planning and booking via Amazon website. Destinations displays the destinations of short trips where the residents live. It offers hotel reservation service, restaurants and resorts information. This service was initially provided in Seattle, New York, and Los Angeles, then expanding to San Francisco and Atlanta.

If you visit Destinations website : https://travel.amazon.com/ right now, you will only read the below message: “Destinations will end hotel booking business from October 13, 2015.” Seattle Times reported that the previously reservations of hotel booking are still valid via Destinations. Destinations is not the first traveling app launched by Amazon. Amazon has Amazon Local that provides flash sales which is similar to  Groupon service. And the users can seek for discounts concern restaurants and dinners on Amazon Local.

Amazon spokesman claimed on Wednesday that the company has learned a lot from this service, and it decided to end Destinations business.

Amazon is famous for testing new products in frontiers, and closing down the business when its performance did not meet demand. Amazon had just closed down Webstore for a while, where it helped small business enterprises to build their own online retailed stores. In addition to this, it also ended its Amazon WebPay last year.