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Crete Island a Top-5 Travelers Choice Destination for 2020

2020-10-09 by Phil Butler

Chania

Crete, the legendary birthplace of the Greek god Zeus, is a top-five pick by Tripadvisor users for 2020. The island is a world within itself.

Tags: crete, Crete beaches, Crete Island, Greece destinations, Minoans, Travelers Choice, Travelers Choice 2020, TripAdvisor Crete, TripAdvisor reviews

Greece’s Archaeological Museum of Pella Wins Travelers’ Choice Award

2020-10-06 by Argophilia Travel News

The Stag Hunt Mosaic

The Archaeological Museum of Pella has been awarded the 2020 Traveler’s Choice Award by the international travel site Tripadvisor.

Tags: Alexander the Great, Archaeological Museum of Pella, Greece attractions, Greek museums, Museums in Romania app, Pella, reviews, TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor reviews

Stunning Greece Hotels Voted to 2020 Tripadvisor “Best of Best” Awards

2020-08-11 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Ikos Resorts

Tripadvisor has released the “Best of the Best” hotels based on pre-pandemic traveler reviews. Greece hotels feature prominently on the list.

Tags: Best of the Best, Greece 2020, Greece accomodations, Greece hotels, Greece resorts, Greece stays, Greece travel, Greece vacation, Ikos Dassia, TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor reviews

The Case of Which? Versus TripAdvisor: A View You Should Read

2019-09-18 by Phil Butler

Which? versus TA

A BBC story the other day has cast a bigger shadow on the world’s most trusted travel review entity, TripAdvisor. The lead in to BBC’s coverage begins with “TripAdvisor has hit back at allegations that it is failing to stop a flood of fake reviews that artificially boost hotel ratings.” Here’s a dissenting view the […]

Tags: BBC, consumer advocate, fake news, fake reviews, hotel reviews, reviews, TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor reviews, Which?

TripAdvisor Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Transparency Report

2019-09-17 by Argophilia Travel News

TripAdvisor® has published its first-ever Review Transparency Report showing over 1m fake reviews being blocked from the site in 2018.

Tags: customer reviews, destination reviews, Facebook, fake reviews, Google Travel, tourism reviews, travel reviews, TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor reviews, TripAdvisor Transparency Report

TripAdvisor Reaches 50 Million Visitors: But For How Long?

2011-09-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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TripAdvisor, currently the largest travel portal in the world, yesterday announced via a press release that it had reached a milestone of 50 million unique visitors each month, becoming the first stand-alone travel site to do so, according to statistics provided by comScore.

Tags: 50 Million Unique Visitors, comScore, fake reviews, Kwikchex, Orbitz, PhoCusWright, Steve Kaufer, TripAdvisor, TripAdvisor reviews

TripAdvisor Acquires Where I’ve Been

2011-07-12 by Phil Butler

TripAdvisor reviews down the tubes

TripAdvisor, the online world’s most popular travel website, has reportedly purchased Where I’ve Been, the once popular Facebook application. The map oriented platform allows users to display where they have visited or lived, and places they would like to visit. Once a “viral” application with something over a million monthly users, the app now sees only a fraction of that number.

Tags: airfarewatchdog.com, AOL Travel, bogus reviews, bookingbuddy.com, customer reviews, everytrail.com, Expedia, Google Travel, online travel, paid reviews, travel, travel companies, TripAdvisor reviews, Where I've Been

Coming Attraction – The Real Online Travel

2010-12-18 by Phil Butler

Next generation online travel portal

2010 has been a big year for online and mobile travel innovation and initiative. Argophilia Travel News takes a look at advanced user technology and value their Argophilia Travel portal may or may not deploy. For the digital empowered traveler, the new year will bring out the best in products and services.

Tags: AR, augmented reality, Everbread, Google Goggles, Groundlink, iPad, iPhone apps, LLoyds TSB, mobile travel, next gen travel, online travel, travel search, travel users, TripAdvisor reviews, TripAltertz, TrustYou search, Vacation Relation

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