After a rough year of defending itself from its detractors, TripAdvisor now describes itself as the more modest “reviews and advice on hotels, resorts, flights, vacation rentals, vacation packages, travel guides, and lots more” or “over 50 million reviews & opinions by travelers.” To be clear, TripAdvisor is not evil, and Kaufer remains one of […]
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War on fake travel content intensifies – now it is time to rate the hotel review sites
In a bizarre twist in the battle to rid the industry of fraudulent reviews, reputation management firm Kwikchex has unveiled a star-rating system for review sites. In January, following a complaint made by Kwikchex, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled against TripAdvisor saying the site should stop claiming reviews are real, honest or trusted. Read more […]
Estimating the Prevalence of Deception in Online Review Communities
A whitepaper by Cornell University academics on how to detect fraudulent TripAdvisor reviews: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~myleott/prevalence_WWW2012.pdf
TripAdvisor slaps Red Badge on hotel for writing own reviews Read more at http://www.tnooz.com/2010/11/03/news/tripadvisor-slaps-red-badge-on-hotel-for-writing-own-reviews
TripAdvisor has punished an Irish hotel for apparently asking staff to write favourable reviews about the property on the user review website. Read more at http://www.tnooz.com/2010/11/03/news/tripadvisor-slaps-red-badge-on-hotel-for-writing-own-reviews
Accor starts TripAdvisor review feed experiment
Global hotel chain Accor is taking the step many other groups have so far feared to tread and will include TripAdvisor reviews within individual property websites. Read more at http://www.tnooz.com/2010/09/28/news/accor-starts-tripadvisor-review-feed-experiment/#fxdGkPweY05GAeul.99
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