TripAdvisor begins handing out badges to reviewers

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TripAdvisor began giving reviewers badges on all of its global websites.

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Southwest Airlines officially adds TripAdvisor reviews and stealthily debuts inspiration pages

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Southwest Airlines announced improvements to its hotel pages, adding TripAdvisor ratings and reviews, and stealthily carried out a soft launch of the Southwest Getaway Finder, a themed search for destinations, hotels and flights.

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GetThere introduces hotel reviews from Travelocity and business travelers

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Business travel users of the GetThere corporate-booking tool, now have another way to choose hotels other than loyalty points and travel-policy prohibitions — namely user reviews.

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Orbitz opens hotel reviews to nonbookers

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Even as the integrity of consumer reviews comes under fire, Orbitz has opened its hotel reviews to people who may — or may not have — stayed at the property.

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If hundreds of hotels sue, TripAdvisor may cite immunity, disclaimers

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If KwikChex follows through and sues TripAdvisor in the U.S. on behalf of hundreds of hotels and attractions over allegedly defamatory user reviews, some of the basic outlines of TripAdvisor’s likely defense are clear.

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Wanted — More TripAdvisor, TravelPost hotel reviews

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Girls just wanna have fun and hotel review sites just wanna get more reviews.

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TrustYou introduces its social media reputation tools to US

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Munich-based TrustYou introduced its reputation-management tools to the U.S. market for hotels, travel sites and destination management organizations.

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When TripAdvisor hotel reviews go missing

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TripAdvisor says it identified a software bug which caused some of its user-written hotel reviews to vanish faster than a discounted room on a holiday weekend.

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HotelsCombined overhauls website, adds third-party reviews, emphasizes maps

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Australia metasearch site HotelsCombined overhauled its website and added a mobile site, as well.

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Oyster.com plans to launch websites in Europe in 2010

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Oyster.com, which features journalist-written hotel reviews, plans to launch websites in Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and Italy before the end of 2010, the company says.

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