TripAdvisor.com is a travel research website that offers unbiased opinions to help plan a vacation. The site covers over 200,000 hotels and attractions in 30,000 destinations worldwide. The site features reviews written by travelers, links to relevant travel articles from newspapers, magazines and travel guidebooks, and has a very active traveler forum area (bulletin boards). TripAdvisor.com is the largest global travel information and advice destination on the web, with more than 4 million unbiased reviews and opinions and covering 200,000+ hotels and attractions.

TripAdvisor was founded in February 2000, and was purchased by InterActive Corporation in 2004. Original financing was obtained from Flagship Ventures, the Bollard Group, and private investors. TripAdvisor is now part of the Expedia, Inc. family of travel companies. For the month of November 2005, the site logged approximately 14 million unique visitors, according to ComScore/MediaMetrix.

Major products

• Hotel/Attraction/Restaurant reviews: In many ways the foundation of TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor has reviews and opinions on over 200,000 hotels, attractions, and restaurants.

• Forums: In TripAdvisor forums, travelers are asking and answering thousands of travel-related questions every day.

• TripAdvisor Inside: A wiki-type product in which users can add factual information on different aspects of a given destination as a way to aid potential vacationers. Inside is a real-time guidebook -- written and edited by real travelers.

• goLists: Compilations of places and activities as experienced by travelers. For example, must see attractions, stops on a walking tour, ideas for a rainy day.

TripAdvisor clients include most major online travel agencies, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Hotwire, Priceline, Travelocity and many travel suppliers, such as InterContinental, Hyatt, and American Airlines.

External links

• TripAdvisor, USA/English site.
• TripAdvisor.co.uk, United Kingdom site
• TripAdvisor.de, German language site
• TripAdvisor.fr, French language site
• TripAdvisor.it, Italian language site
• TripAdvisor.es, Spanish language site
• Expedia.com, Expedia.com

References

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