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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.

Online Travel

Rejoice! SeatGuru finally redesigns, and expands into flight search

Scoring flights based on seat choices and amenities is a nice twist on the way the usual suspects present flight options.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

TripAdvisor: A user’s guide to navigating the reviews swarm

With millions of hotel reviews written by travelers, TripAdvisor has a wealth of information about choosing a place to stay, but you have to know what to look for in the reviews and what to discard.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Skift global trend for 2013: The rise of price transparency

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Was Barry Diller uncomfortable with giving up control of Expedia?

Every billionaire needs an online travel agency trophy, but beyond that Barry Diller likely feels that he still has a lot of work to do at Expedia.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

TripAdvisor rates Top 10 airport hotels, but Google thinks some are middling

TripAdvisor uses the wisdom of the crowds in picking its top 10 airport hotels, but Google's review ranks are much thinner.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Travelers turn to their mobile devices to cope with travel annoyances, says survey

The survey shows that travelers are preparing to deal with the travel annoyances that await them by either adjusting their travel dates, booking hotels instead of sleeping on couches, or just filling their Instapaper queue before the flight.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 11 years ago

Media and PR

The real winner in the TripAdvisor stake sale is — surprise, surprise — Barry Diller

The Liberty Media-Barry Diller deal for control of TripAdvisor is all about profits and taxes, and not about a change in strategic direction for the hotel-review site.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

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Liberty buys controlling stake in Tripadvisor; Diller sells his for $300 million

This simplifies the complex shareholding structure that any Diller-Malone company always has, and maybe a precursor to a larger transaction that will decide where Tripadvisor ends up.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Yelp and Angie’s List ruling provides guidance for online reviews: No false factual statements

Hotel and restaurant owners may smell an opportunity here to attack false claims rather than complain about negative opinions.

Skift | 11 years ago

Online Travel

TripAdvisor partners with microloan site Kiva to fund foreign projects that travelers choose

Granted it’s a great PR boost for TripAdvisor, but wouldn’t it be nice if the initiative did mark the start of a movement to change tourists’ relationship with the places they visit?

Skift | 11 years ago