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.

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Expedia Antitrust Regulators Decide That Orbitz Is Too Small to Matter

We said all along that increased competition from Booking.com and TripAdvisor's burgeoning power as a hotel-booking site would be enough to get the Expedia-Orbitz deal approved. The Antitrust Division saw Google as an up-and-coming force in flight and hotel bookings, as well.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Hotels

TripAdvisor In Tiff With Vacation Rental Managers Over FlipKey Changes

TripAdvisor/FlipKey's challenges with the vacation rental industry aren't only technical ones. They also reflect increased supply available from individual homeowners and apartment renters. TripAdvisor, Booking.com and Airbnb are going after this sector and professionally managed properties are feeling the lumps.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Like Expedia, TripAdvisor Takes A Step Back in China in Sale of Money-Losing Kuxun

Unlike the Priceline Group and Expedia Inc., TripAdvisor tried to go-it alone in China without a long-term home-grown partner. Expedia failed even though it had a Chinese partner in eLong so there are no guarantees in doing business in this potentially very lucrative but stubbornly difficult market.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

TripAdvisor Takes New Steps Toward Offering the Ultimate Travel Guide App

The challenge for TripAdvisor is whether it will win by being an all-encompassing app or whether it is better to be more focused like Expedia's or HotelTonight's apps. In phasing out its City Guides app, TripAdvisor is putting itself in the comprehensive camp.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Hotels

The Lodging Revolution Begins With One Customer, Says Priceline CEO

Convergence is happening big time these days as online travel companies around the world, driven by the varied and changing accommodations' needs of their customers, are rapidly expanding and will continue to broaden their array of lodging options.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Hotels

Will TripAdvisor Be the Next Airbnb? It Seems to Be Trying

TripAdvisor, with its hotel and restaurant reviews, hotel bookings and tours and activities, is a much more well-rounded travel site than the younger Airbnb at this stage. Still, TripAdvisor has some Airbnb envy, and wants to take advantage of the sea changes in the global lodging industry.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Expedia Cozies Up to Google While Boycotting TripAdvisor Hotel Bookings

Expedia is content to work with Google on hotel bookings while stiff-arming TripAdvisor. There is likely more to the warming and cooling relationships than just the relative economics.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Google Adding 21 AccorHotels Brands to Its Instant Booking Product

TripAdvisor has scaled up Instant Booking fairly rapidly. Google's addition of AccorHotels' brands shows that Google can do likewise.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Trivago Spent $3.7 Million in July to Tweak TripAdvisor Over Reviews

An Expedia-owned company, Trivago, is blasting TripAdvisor, which Expedia formerly owned, over "unfair" hotel reviews. I love the travel industry.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago

Online Travel

The Numbers Behind TripAdvisor’s Evolution Into the Next Booking Giant

The emergence of TripAdvisor as a viable booking site is a wake-up call to Expedia and the Priceline Group, who have been TripAdvisor's largest advertisers in recent years. It wouldn't be surprising to see them cut the spending spigot a bit.

Dennis Schaal | 11 years ago