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Tripadvisor News

Tripadvisor is a travel website that provides reviews, ratings, recommendations, and bookings for various travel-related products and services, such as hotels, attractions, flights, and vacation rentals.

Tripadvisor offers a variety of services to travelers and businesses, such as:

Reviews and ratings: Tripadvisor allows users to share their opinions, experiences, and photos of various travel-related products and services, such as hotels, restaurants, attractions, etc. Users can also rate these products and services on a scale of 1 to 5.
Comparison and booking: Tripadvisor enables users to search for and compare prices, availability, and features of various travel-related products and services offered by third-party providers. Users can also book or reserve these products and services directly through Tripadvisor or its partners.
Trip planning: Tripadvisor helps users to plan their trips by providing recommendations, suggestions, guides, maps, forums, etc. Users can also create their own trip itineraries or browse through other users’ trips.

Tripadvisor brands include: Viator, Flipkey, Cruise Critic, Bókun, SeatGuru, and other smaller niche sites.

Hotels

Accor hotel executive exposed for posting biased TripAdvisor reviews

How many other biased hoteliers are lurking around TripAdvisor? The site’s rules state reviews from hotel employees aren’t permitted, but their enforcement can be lax and is one of its biggest shortcomings.

Hotels

TripAdvisor CEO bullish now but takes blame for slow move to Kayak-style search

Kaufer believes that hotel metasearch is going to scale TripAdvisor to a whole new dimension. He hasn't been wrong about much so far.

Hotels

TripAdvisor advises against mobile apps for its hotel customers

TripAdvisor giveth and TripAdvisor taketh. It gives great advice to hotels, and it takes their advertising dollars. Good cop, bad cop (although not-so bad if it is driving hotel bookings) has long been known to be a very effective strategy.

TripAdvisor advises against mobile apps for its hotel customers

Hotels

The biggest battle coming in online travel: Tripadvisor Vs. Kayak

In between four acquisitions so far this year, TripAdvisor has found the time to begin to give Kayak a run for its money in launching hotel metasearch. Kayak isn't going to roll over and play dead, but there will be a huge alternative for travelers to consider.

Announcements

TripAdvisor acquires Spanish vacation rental site and dramatically boosts portfolio

If you see TripAdvisor walking in your direction, don't make eye contact unless you want your company to be acquired.

Hotels

TripAdvisor’s plan to get another 100 million reviews: Have hotels do the work

Hotels with decent reputations are anxious to get the benefits of more TripAdvisor reviews, an impulse that could help TripAdvisor keep Google and other hotel review sites in the rearview mirror.

TripAdvisor’s plan to get another 100 million reviews: Have hotels do the work

Cruises

TripAdvisor acquires cruise online-booking site CruiseWise

TripAdvisor's acquisition of CruiseWise is great news for TripAdvisor subsidiary Cruise Critic, which is a leading cruise news and cruise-information site, but is hampered by an outdated user interface and bulletin-like forum technology. This acqui-hire will enable TripAdvisor to finally modernize Cruise Critic, a project that's probably been on the agenda for years.

Hotels

NYC’s largest development reminds residents they can be evicted for vacation rentals

PCVST may have a ton of potential customers, but the complex's management is the 800-pound gorilla of New York City rentals and an enemy that's better avoided than attacked head on.

NYC’s largest development reminds residents they can be evicted for vacation rentals

Hotels

TripAdvisor launches positive reviews service for hotels

We like the old, hungrier TripAdvisor better -- the one that didn't hesitate to publicize its annual list of the dirtiest hotels.

TripAdvisor launches positive reviews service for hotels

Online Travel

TripAdvisor’s expands gluttonous menu with Australia restaurant reservations

Hotels will always be TripAdvisor's main course, but restaurants can serve as an ample second helping for its business.