Tripadvisor News

TripAdvisor has announced its market-leading mobile app is now pre-installed onto the new Samsung GALAXY S4, enabling millions of consumers worldwide to have easy access to trusted TripAdvisor travel content. TripAdvisor is the only travel app that will be pre-installed on the new Samsung GALAXY S4.  → Read More

TripAdvisor has announced it has acquired Niumba.com, a leading vacation rentals website. Niumba features more than 230,000 properties globally and brings to TripAdvisor the world’s largest collection of Spanish vacation rentals with more than 120,000 properties in Spain. → Read More

TripAdvisor today announced the launch of its new TripAdvisor GreenLeaders™ program, helping its community of more than 200 million travelers plan greener trips by highlighting U.S. accommodations engaging in environmentally-friendly practices. → Read More

TripAdvisor has announced the launch of the Rave Review widget, a new marketing tool that allows hotel, restaurant and attraction owners to display a five-star TripAdvisor review on their own websites. “According to a recent TripBarometer by TripAdvisor survey, 93 per cent of people looking to book travel are influenced by online reviews,” said Christine Petersen, president of TripAdvisor for Business. → Read More

TripAdvisor has unveiled a first for the travel advertising industry by launching a ‘Delayed Ad Call’. In a move designed to increase the client’s confidence in the value of display advertising as well as the impact that it has on the way that online advertising is measured, partners of TripAdvisor will now only ever pay for advertising that is seen by a user on the site. → Read More

TripAdvisor has announced it has acquired Tiny Post, the highly acclaimed app that lets users write over photos and turn them into stories. The Tiny Post team will be based in TripAdvisor’s Palo Alto office. → Read More

TripAdvisor®, the world’s largest travel site*, today announced that its market-leading mobile app is now pre-installed onto the new Samsung GALAXY S 4, enabling millions of consumers worldwide to have easy access to trusted TripAdvisor travel content.  TripAdvisor is the only travel app that will be pre-installed on the new Samsung GALAXY S4. → Read More

Next Monday marks the launch of a new flight route from London to Moscow, operated by a major low-cost carrier, and TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website, can reveal that the Russian capital has already seen a substantial uplift in traveller interest. Tickets for the flights went on sale in January this year and in the period immediately following this, Moscow accommodations saw a 99% increase in traveller searches on TripAdvisor.co.uk. → Read More

The results of the 2013 TripAdvisor Flights Survey have reveal British travellers’ attitudes to the continuing rise of Air Passenger Duty, and the impending lift on liquid restrictions in hand-luggage across EU airports. As industry campaigners continue to battle against APD, the TripAdvisor survey of over 1,100 respondents reveals that the majority of British travellers are also against it, with 77 per cent citing that APD should be scrapped. → Read More

TripAdvisor has revealed more than 50,000 accommodations have upgraded to TripAdvisor Business Listings to take advantage of a suite of advanced marketing services and generate more business online. Since the product first became available in 2010, a growing number of hotel companies and brands around the world have added a Business Listing to their TripAdvisor page to drive more bookings and gain more visibility through the product’s powerful Special Offers and Mobile Upgrade features. → Read More

TripAdvisor today announced the results of its wellness travel survey of more than 1,100 U.S. travelers, together with the top 10 hotel spas in the U.S. Thirty percent of travelers surveyed plan to take a trip dedicated to rejuvenating their body, mind or spirit at the beginning of 2013. Of those traveling, 49 percent will stay in a hotel, 17 percent will stay in a vacation rental, and 16 percent plan to stay in the home of family or friends. → Read More