http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/podcast/2007/11/01/hawaii-vacation-connection-192-resortquest-responds-to-bruces-comments/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/podcast/2007/11/01/hawaii-vacation-connection-192-resortquest-responds-to-bruces-comments/#comment-45 Tara Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:09:29 +0000 http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/podcast/2007/11/01/hawaii-vacation-connection-192-resortquest-responds-to-bruces-comments/#comment-45 I find the following statement somewhat disingenuous, "TripAdvisor enables the public to rate properties as they see fit, and the site would not enjoy such widespread confidence if there was even a whiff of tampering with the reviews." The unreliability of online review sites, especially TripAdvisor, has in fact been a problem in the recent past. Here are but a few examples.: http://www.reuters.com/article/HotelsandCasinos07/idUSN1422466620070215 http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article1831095.ece http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/business/07guides.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/05/ntourism205.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/09/escape.travelwebsites http://www.frommers.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@245.zg22cn0sah9%5E0@.eee1e0e I find the following statement somewhat disingenuous, “TripAdvisor enables the public to rate properties as they see fit, and the site would not enjoy such widespread confidence if there was even a whiff of tampering with the reviews.”
The unreliability of online review sites, especially TripAdvisor, has in fact been a problem in the recent past.
Here are but a few examples.:
http://www.reuters.com/article/HotelsandCasinos07/idUSN1422466620070215
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article1831095.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/business/07guides.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/05/ntourism205.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/sep/09/escape.travelwebsites
http://www.frommers.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@245.zg22cn0sah9%5E0@.eee1e0e

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