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Tip or TripAdvisor? Tour guides soliciting reviews

July 24, 2008 by Neil Maclean 

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At the end of his tour, he asked us all to provide the tour with an honest “hopefully positive” review on TripAdvisor.com, or any other travel forums we happened to be visiting.

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I wonder which the tour operators would prefer: five stars in TripAdvisor or a glowing review in a well-read blog.

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5 Responses to “Tip or TripAdvisor? Tour guides soliciting reviews”

  1. jean on August 3rd, 2008 5:42 am

    Hi Neil, to be honest, I think the tour operators would prefer both. However, the consumer generated contents are more based on the travel experience. Usually, either the tour is so great that the traveler is more than happy to tell others, or it’s too terrible that other travelers shall be noticed against it.

    Our new site launched in July might be of interest to you. It’s OurExplorer.com, providing user-rated professional tourist guides from all over the world. You can book your flight and accommodation on-line, why not your tourist guide?

    If you feel OurExplorer and its concept are appropriate to announce on your blog, please do. Write whatever you feel appropriate about http://www.ourexplorer.com. That would be much appreciated.

  2. Darren Cronian on August 3rd, 2008 4:20 pm

    Your kidding aren’t you Neil? :) Tour operators don’t get blogs. Not figured out why yet, but I have my theories.

  3. Darren Cronian on August 3rd, 2008 4:20 pm

    Your kidding aren’t you Neil? :) Tour operators don’t get blogs. Not figured out why yet, but I have my theories.

  4. lukas on August 6th, 2008 1:53 am

    hi neil,

    my name is lukas and it seems that your contact form isn’t working, thus i wanted to drop you a note here.

    you might wanna have a look at our service http://www.tripwolf.com - which combines professionel content from europes largest travelling publishing house mairdumont and user generated content on already more than 200.000 points of interest.

    all the best from vienna
    lukas

  5. Simon Mc on September 19th, 2008 7:20 pm

    While travel blogs will often be more enjoyable to read, and some have a dedicated readership, the reader’s interest will only last as long as the content is valid. Tripadvisor is a resource that has a reputation far stronger than any blog i know of, and it has information on so many tourism destinations, and tourism operations, it’ll be hard to knock it off it’s perch.

    That said I don’t personally like Tripadvisor a great deal its overly commercial and restrictive and a heartfelt travel blog post on your tourism client potentially generates a nice spike in web traffic and hopefully some genuine warm fuzzies which you can share with your client.

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