If Tripadvisor’s popularity index can be equated to revenue, then paying to increase your popularity seems very, *VERY* much a grey area.
TripAdvisor Ethics Watch – Pay to list phone and website?
The rest that is cut off (hey I am a hotel guy, not a HTML guy) says “($42/month), would you?” You can take the survey yourself right here: TripAdvisor Survey for Owners. I will let the pic
Well done Tripadvisor – the first step is admitting you have a problem.
Once again, I get carried away with a response to a blog post. I am sure this counts as real business right? Newsweek’s Budget Travel has a great article about TripAdvisor trying to deal with the long coming revelation that many of their users and reviews are not legitimate. This is, frankly, a huge blow to the site, and should pose a happy problem in it’s early adolescence as they deal with all the changes that come along with growing into adulthood. Frankly, I am thrilled that this may provoke User Generated Content sites to seek the same verification model other sites have.
Hotel, Travel, and Hospitality professionals… How do you feel about Yelp? Let me know!
With all this bad press, I am starting to become really interested in the hospitality industry’s response to all this? Yelp definitely effects us… but how? Are any of you innkeepers, B&B owners,