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Hotel Review Hub. The comprehensive airfare, hotel and car rental comparison site Kayak.com has just launched a new hotel review site called TravelPost, giving TripAdvisor a run for its money. TravelPost aggregates descriptions, photos and ratings of 140,000 hotels from 200 travel sites - including Orbitz, Hotels.com, BedandBreakfast.com, IgoUgo.com, Epinions.com and the hotels' own websites. Search by hotel name, star rating, brand, room type and location, and see reviews from other travelers. In true Kayak.com fashion, you can also filter the reviews by the writers' age, gender, budget, and style of travel (business or leisure...
Meanwhile, on TripAdvisor... TripAdvisor is expanding its offerings by adding reviews of vacation rentals - 70,000 condos and houses - to its site. There's also a new vacation calculator, which helps you estimate the cost of your dream trip based on the average lodging and food costs in the area you want to visit...
Fung said that he and his colleagues had been interested in user-generated information that is shared on Web sites like Wikipedia and TripAdvisor. He said he found that problems at voting sites could be fixed by allowing the average citizen to provide information, which could then be used by others like media agencies and other voters...
...been around over a decade. In 1995, Amazon.com began offering its visitors the ability to post reviews on available books, setting in motion a new phenomenon where everyone can easily become a critic. Other sites quickly followed, expanding reviews into music, products and services. Some of those sites, like TripAdvisor, which is dedicated to user hotel reviews, are demonstrating that this new wave of consumer empowerment is now mainstream...
...Claiming over 5 million reviews on 250,000 properties, TripAdvisor has risen to be the second most popular site, after Hotels.com, receiving over 3.7% of visits to the 5,307 hotel and destination websites in the U.S. Yet hotel reviews rank in 7th place among types of reviews searched for behind movie reviews, book and digital camera reviews...
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