TripAdvisor Taps Facebook Friends for Travel Tips
The world’s largest and busiest travel advisory website TripAdvisor launched on Monday a new service on Facebook called “TravelAdvisor Trip Friends,” which offers users travel tips about different tourist destination directly from their social networking friends.
In an interview, TripAdvisor founder and chief Steve Kaufer said that the Facebook-based travel advisory will be the next big thing for the website.
“Ten years ago, we have revolutionized travel planning when we launched the website. Now, the next major leap forward is to get travel advisories from your friends on Faceboook,” Kaufer added.
In 2000, TravelAdvisor become a huge hit among travelers looking for travel guides and agents online. Most of the contents of the website rely on user-generated tips about airline companies, hotels and restaurants, and other travelers’ needs.
“It will be like asking your friend for a plumber. Instead of offering wisdoms of crowds, the service will offer wisdom of your Facebook friends,” he added.
He added that the new service will allow Facebook users to plan and to identify “good” finds for their vacation by clicking the application called “Cities I’ve Visited.”
Users can view photos and read articles about the places that their Facebook friends have visited and ask them for further details.
TripAdvisor is the busiest travel website in the world with more than 34 million unique hits every month. It also has over 35 million reviews and opinions from various travelers about the different places that they have visited.
The company hopes to further enhance its services with the launch of the new Facebook application.
To date, the TravelAdvisor has 730 employees.
The company website operates with 14 languages and offers advertising opportunities to hotel and restaurants around the world.
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12:02 pm on July 4th, 2010
What other websites offer free travel tips in South America?-,~
11:11 pm on August 1st, 2010
travel tips are important specially if you are going in places that are troublesome like in Africa or Asia*`-