How to respond to hotel reviews (hint: not too much)

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The recent paper from Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research has garnered much attention in our industry because it demonstrates for the first time, with hard numbers, the positive impact of online reviews upon hotel performance.

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App lets hotel owners add TripAdvisor reviews to their Facebook pages

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Today the user-reviews giant unveils The TripAdvisor App for Facebook, a way for hotel owners to pad their Facebook Pages with reviews, ratings, and other content.

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Top hotel guest rants and raves in 2012, based on survey of 1 million comments

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A TrustYou study of 1 million hotel comments reveals what travelers are saying and how to stay ahead of the complaint curve.

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Yelp buys Qype for $50 million in a European landgrab by the user-review giant

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Yelp is going global, and Qype gets its “safe exit.”

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The Haters versus TripAdvisor – Is it 0-0 or 1-1?

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When reputation management firm Kwikchex went public with its legal threat to TripAdvisor two years ago, most probably dismissed the notion as nonsense

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TripAdvisor hotel data shows economic optimism but Europe lags North and Latin America

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Trends from TripAdvisor’s latest index shows increasing optimism over the economy from accommodation owners

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TrustYou partners with TripAdvisor to monitor and analyse reviews for hotels

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TrustYou is accessing the TripAdvisor hotel database via an API following a partnership enabling the reputation management specialist to track reviews

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The online travel ecosystem [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Refreshingly unbiased look at what the online travel ecosystem looks like in 2012, taking into account such areas as the planning, booking and reviewing of trips.

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Airbnb as an easy target? Curious tale of disappearing negative review

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If you are Airbnb, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Groupon — big names in travel tech — you are going to have to take your lumps sometimes because your brand is exposed in a major way and consumers and blogger/journalists love to take their shots at the big guys or girls.

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Expedia revamps package holiday pages following global research

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Expedia is focusing its efforts on its beach holiday pages for websites across the EMEA region to help consumers narrow their decision making process

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