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.

Experiences

Is Tripadvisor Really the Best Ticket to Ride the Recovery?

A theory made the rounds several years ago that Tripadvisor would be the next Booking.com. OK, that didn't happen, but dealt a bad hand by Google, Tripadvisor has been busy remaking itself. It's been a very long and uneven slog.

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Coronavirus

NFL, Restaurateur Danny Meyer Back Digital Health Passports Through Investment in Clear

Big league backers are seeing the potential of digital health passports, and not just for flying.

Matthew Parsons | 5 years ago

Online Travel

Airbnb’s Blockbuster IPO May Tempt Barry Diller to Spin Off Vrbo From Expedia

One plus one can equal three sometimes when it comes to spinoffs, especially during the current era where there appears to be an IPO and valuation bubble. Expedia Group seems to be resisting an impulse to spin off Vrbo, let alone Egencia, for now, but the pressure could be substantial.

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Online Travel

The Biggest Challenge to Online Travel’s Recovery in 2021

The bean counters, meaning the financial experts, at all of the major online travel companies have their work cut out for them as they monitor and try to predict the shape and timing of any potential travel recovery. These companies need to be nimble, and hoard their cash.

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Online Travel

Helicopter Taxi Service Blade Goes Public Through Blank-Check Company

Airbus-backed Blade thinks Asia is where the action is, with plans to expand there after this latest blank-check deal. Keep an eye on similar so-called SPAC deals in travel in the new year.

Matthew Parsons | 5 years ago

Online Travel

European Union Antitrust Boss Cites Booking and Google in Regulatory Remarks

Booking.com has prided itself on being a household name in its European home base, but will have a tough time avoiding a European Commission designation of gatekeeper. Such stature could bring increased restrictions.

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Online Travel

Airbnb’s Shiny $100 Billion Valuation and 14 Other Top Travel Stories This Week

In Skift's top travel stories this week, we covered the Airbnb IPO from every angle. There were other stories, too, including Google launching new tools for destinations and hotels, a road warrior who's flown three dozen times since September, a property manager picking up Stay Alfred scraps.

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Online Travel

China Bans the Tripadvisor App Controlled by the Country’s Own Trip.com Group

China's move to ban the Tripadvisor-branded app is somewhat of a head scratcher since the app is actually controlled by China's Trip.com Group. Will other U.S.-branded apps, such as Airbnb's be impacted?

Dennis Schaal | 5 years ago

Business Travel

Tripadvisor Stands Up for Free Speech and 10 Other Top Travel Stories This Week

In travel news this week, Tripadvisor went to bat for an American expat reviewer who was tossed in jail for a review he wrote about a hotel in Thailand, JetBlue said it was seeking partner to help it launch into the short-term rentals business, and a vote by the citizens in Key West to ban big ships could be have ramifications in other port communities across the globe.

Tom Lowry | 6 years ago

Hotels

Tripadvisor Struck Back at Thailand Hotel That Had Reviewer Jailed

A Thailand hotel filed criminal charges, now dropped, against a review writer. But it's now the hotel itself that will get penalized because its placement on Tripadvisor's pages will get demoted for 90 days.

Dennis Schaal | 6 years ago