Tripadvisor News

As one of the most influential platforms in travel planning and user-generated content, Tripadvisor plays a critical role in shaping consumer behavior and digital strategy across the industry. PhocusWire tracks the latest Tripadvisor news, providing detailed coverage of its business evolution, product innovations, and strategic direction within the broader travel ecosystem.

Updates and insights on Tripadvisor’s role in global travel

Explore how Tripadvisor continues to adapt to changes in search, social media, and AI-driven personalization. Our reporting examines the company’s tech investments, its evolving marketplace model, and the shifting dynamics of online reviews and booking tools. From new B2B services to advertising partnerships and sustainability initiatives, Tripadvisor’s activity signals larger trends across the travel and hospitality landscape.

Hello, online travel industry - are you considering these five questions?
News / Technology
Hello, online travel industry - are you considering these five questions?
By Pamela Whitby | August 13, 2014
Do you know what your competition is doing? If not, now is perhaps the time to find out. It’s the time of year for setting budgets, planning and prioritising for the future. Whether you are an e Read More
Three online travel giants and three approaches to the new travel ecosystem
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Three online travel giants and three approaches to the new travel ecosystem
By Viewpoints | August 11, 2014
This year has illustrated that major online players now appear to want the traveler to get everything they need in a single point of sale. The evolution of the Airbnb brand, Priceline's acquisition Read More
Behold, a CPC attribution model for hotels using Google, TripAdvisor, Facebook and metas
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Behold, a CPC attribution model for hotels using Google, TripAdvisor, Facebook and metas
By Kevin May | August 8, 2014
The value of each click on CPC campaigns isn't necessarily the value that you are paying. Some clicks are worth more than others yet that's not how the budget is allocated. I haven't seen any compl Read More
Expedia (and others) will be affected big-time by Priceline-Ctrip marriage
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Expedia (and others) will be affected big-time by Priceline-Ctrip marriage
By Morris Sim | August 8, 2014
Priceline’s planned investment in Ctrip is a smart move for both companies, though not as unexpected as some might believe. Many employees and partners of both companies have had suspicions since t Read More
GetYourGuide raises $25 million as tours and activities take centre stage
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GetYourGuide raises $25 million as tours and activities take centre stage
By Kevin May | July 31, 2014
Who said tours and activities is a tricky sector? Not TripAdvisor, it seems, nor GetYourGuide after raising $25 million in Series B. The latest injection comes via Spark Capital and Highland Capita Read More
Startup pitch: Bound Round wants to be a TripAdvisor for kids to use
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Startup pitch: Bound Round wants to be a TripAdvisor for kids to use
By Karthick Prabu | July 30, 2014
Handing over travel planning to children sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen, but that is what Australia-based Bound Round is doing. The Bound Round service, initially dreamed up as a mobile- Read More
The wait is over, tours and activities finally hits the big time
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The wait is over, tours and activities finally hits the big time
By Alex Kremer | July 25, 2014
Our long nightmare is over. Tours and activities finally gets the big market move it has so desperately needed: TripAdvisor has snapped up Viator. First, a hats off to the team: perservering since Read More
TripAdvisor misses estimates, and its call contains clues to weakness [UPDATED]
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TripAdvisor misses estimates, and its call contains clues to weakness [UPDATED]
By Sean O'Neil | July 23, 2014
TripAdvisor tripped today. The sprawling user-review platform revealed its earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal year, and the company has disappointed Wall Street by doing worse than most ana Read More
Metasurge: How to navigate the growth in metasearch for hotel brands
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Metasurge: How to navigate the growth in metasearch for hotel brands
By Nick Vivion | July 18, 2014
L2 Thinktank has applied its marketing intelligence brain to metasearch, coming up with an overview of the state of metasearch. The focus is on how hotel brands can leverage metasearch to enjoy an adv Read More
TripAdvisor lets users post reviews direct from hotel Facebook pages
News / Online
TripAdvisor lets users post reviews direct from hotel Facebook pages
By Kevin May | July 15, 2014
TripAdvisor wants to make it easier for hotels and other services to get reviews, with a major upgrade to its Facebook widget. The system was originally launched in December 2012 as module which co Read More
How a restaurant worked out why it was getting bad online reviews
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How a restaurant worked out why it was getting bad online reviews
By PhocusWire | July 14, 2014
MARKETING: There are all sorts of fancy bits of technology now in place to give travel brands some understanding of their performance via online reviews. But one restaurant went back to basics and u Read More
Why TripAdvisor has a chance to eat the lunch of Booking.com
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Why TripAdvisor has a chance to eat the lunch of Booking.com
By Viewpoints | July 10, 2014
Tripadvisor’s Tripconnect is the first real challenger to Booking.com and is the first step to get hoteliers back in control of their online distribution channel. Now that the Tripconnect platform Read More
Big picture, Big Data and big ideas: TripAdvisor on where mobile travel is heading
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Big picture, Big Data and big ideas: TripAdvisor on where mobile travel is heading
By Kevin May | July 8, 2014
Joost Schreve, vice president of mobile at TripAdvisor, probably has one of the best jobs in the travel industry. The former-CEO of Everytrail (the company was bought by TripAdvisor in February 201 Read More
Targeting China next as a travel metasearch brand? Be ready for the grind
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Targeting China next as a travel metasearch brand? Be ready for the grind
By Viewpoints | July 7, 2014
Established metasearch brands including Kayak and Skyscanner are set to foray into China. It will be interesting to watch the development as these companies enter with contrasting market-entry strateg Read More
Startup pitch: TripExpert wants to bring the expert back into hotel reviews
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Startup pitch: TripExpert wants to bring the expert back into hotel reviews
By Karthick Prabu | July 3, 2014
TripExpert is perhaps going against the grain, in that it doesn't take the crowd-source approach to collecting hotel reviews. Instead, it has gone back to the old school, in some respects, aggregat Read More
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