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

TripAdvisor Sees Decline in Hotel Shoppers After Travel Industry Advertising Reset

The hidden tale behind TripAdvisor's anemic revenue growth is that the online travel companies that had heavily advertised on it and similar platforms have decided to trim that spending to improve on their margins rather than chase growth. TripAdvisor executives said they planned to do the same. Quailty growth is the new new thing.

Sean O'Neill | 8 years ago

Hotels

Airbnb Could Be Worth More Than Any Hotel Company

The battle between Airbnb and Booking (and everyone else in online travel) is just beginning.

Deanna Ting | 8 years ago

Online Travel

The Most Highly Compensated Online Travel CEOs of 2018

TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer is ordinarily far from being the most-compensated CEO in online travel. This year represented an unusual payout for him. But Skift's annual survey reveals that most online travel CEOs are often more handsomely compensated than what the top bosses in other industries receive, on average.

Sean O'Neill | 8 years ago

Food and Drink

Yelp’s New Antitrust Drive Targets Google Employees

Yelp's efforts to see tighter regulation of Google's business practices could have more success this time around than several years ago, when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission dropped the ball. European Union regulators have really cast the previous U.S. effort in a shameful light, and the Trump team may be more sympathetic than the Obama administration.

Dennis Schaal | 8 years ago

Online Travel

Yelp Targets Google Employees in New Antitrust Drive

Dennis Schaal | 8 years ago

Food and Drink

TripAdvisor Looks to Restaurants for a Boost

Revenues are up 36 percent in TripAdvisor's non-hotel category, which includes restaurants.

Erika Adams | 8 years ago

Experiences

Traveler Behavior Is Still the Biggest Impediment to TripAdvisor’s Tours and Activities Business

Should there be TripAdvisor booths at big tourist attractions in Paris, New York, Las Vegas and Rome? It might not be a bad idea to explore to attract the business of travelers who like to book attractions offline. Would it scale? Expedia does it, but the numbers crunchers would have to figure it all out.

Dennis Schaal | 8 years ago

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Q1 Shows Some Positives Although Core Hotel Business Is Still Tough Going

Beyond all the financial razzmatazz, TripAdvisor's core hotel business is still under pressure while the much smaller experiences and restaurant businesses are growing nicely — although not profitably at this point. If TripAdvisor can hang on while these non-core businesses mature, then its outlook would be much brighter.

Dennis Schaal | 8 years ago

Online Travel

Expedia Sold More Than $500 Million in Tours and Activities in 2017

Expedia's half-billion dollars of online sales may seem large. But it's a tiny sum in the context of the company's overall sales. It is still early days for the online management and distribution of activities, despite the recent frenzy of startup acquisition.

Sean O'Neill | 8 years ago

Online Travel

Why Everybody Now Wants a Piece of the Tours and Activities Sector

Large travel corporations can't seem to get enough of the tours and activities space. It's one to watch as the year unfolds. Deals can be a great way to get a foot in the door, but don't forget to make sure there is a strategic fit — and, of course, that the price is right.

Seth Borko | 8 years ago