TripAdvisor says it has a fraud detection algorithm, but savvy users contact me regularly to complain about bogus reviews. Brendan Lee, a frequent hotel guest and travel blogger. Google seems to be gaining fast on TripAdvisor on the list of best hotel review sites. It recently integrated its Hotel Finder into search, allowing you to retrieve a list of hotels with prices, photos, reviews and street view panoramas. But the same problem plagues Google. There’s no verification, meaning anyone can — and does — review a hotel. But Google has an edge that insiders like. Stephen Fofanoff, the innkeeper for Domaine Madeleine Bed and Breakfast in Port Angeles, Wash., liked Google’s hotel reviews better than TripAdvisor. He says Google allows hotels to easily flag a review from someone who doesn’t have a verified stay. Google contacts the reviewer, asking for a screenshot of their receipt or other proof to validate their stay. Interestingly, Trivago doesn’t even host user reviews.
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It transpired there was barely anything to eat. In the morning, apart from bread, there was one type of ham and one type of cheese. No warm buffet, eggs or even honey. Nada. Lunch and dinner were like those cosy French restaurants, where the chef is cooking what he likes and everyone eats the same. Except that the food was similar to what one might find in the army. No salad at all, typically meat and French fries. And no choice. We are not even talking about elementary needs for people with different dietary habits. We had representatives from Muslim countries who had their religious restrictions and could not eat pork, for instance. Three days of polite complaints were met with the same answer by the organiser “I know about your problem… ” I learned later that he specifically asked the hotel staff not to give his telephone number to anyone.
About 30% covered the cost of its fundraising operations, and the remaining 20%, or $1 of every $5 donated, increased its reserve fund. Further, ProPublica found, a substantial portion of the cost for treatment is paid not by St. Jude but by families’ private insurance or by Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income families. About 90% of patients are insured, bringing in more than $100 million in reimbursements for treatment a year. If a family shows up at St. Jude without insurance, a company hired by the charity helps them find it. St. Jude does cover copays and deductibles, an unusual benefit. St. Jude spends about $500 million a year on patient services – a figure that includes all medical care and other assistance. Very little of what St. Jude raises from the public goes to pay for food, travel and housing for families, the investigation found. Last year, it was 2% of the money raised, or nearly $40 million.
Many hotels have not gotten as far as devising an online reputation management strategy and more worryingly, some hotels have no clue about what (good or bad) is being said about them on the internet. So where should you start? Resource limitation and budget constraints are common problems for smaller hotels. Investing in an automated reputation monitoring tool may therefore seem a long way off, especially if you have only recently implemented a web booking engine. You may be reluctant to pursue trends you do not view as ‘proven’ to generate revenue. But the facts cannot be ignored – credibility of reviews among consumers is high within the hotel sector and therefore has a direct impact on your revenue. Firstly you must identify what is being said about your property on the most popular review sites on the internet. Don’t expect to monitor hundreds of sites effectively – the sensible places to start are TripAdvisor, Expedia and Google.
