New TripAdvisor App Helps Businesses Boost Marketing Potential on Facebook
Businesses Can Now Easily Share TripAdvisor Reviews, Awards and Photos on their Facebook Pages
SINGAPORE, Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisor( http://www.tripadvisor.com )(TM), the world's largest travel site*, today announced a new app that gives hospitality business owners a quick and easy way to enhance their Facebook Pages with reviews, awards and other TripAdvisor content.
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The TripAdvisor App for Facebook, which is available immediately, is designed to help businesses attract more guests with traveller feedback and is an expansion of the popular TripAdvisor widgets.
Using the new app, owners can create a TripAdvisor tab for their business's Facebook Page with the option to display their TripAdvisor ratings, recent reviews, awards, photos and ranking on the site. The tab also encourages fans to read and write more reviews about the establishment on TripAdvisor.
"The TripAdvisor App for Facebook helps businesses showcase their reviews and accolades in front of Facebook's massive community of one billion monthly active users (Note 1)," said Christine Petersen, president, TripAdvisor for Business. "According to a recent PhoCusWright study commissioned by TripAdvisor (Note 2), 87 percent of users agree that TripAdvisor hotel reviews help them feel more confident in their booking decisions. When traveller feedback matters this much, it is important for brands to make traveller reviews and opinions as accessible to their fans as possible to encourage more bookings."
To install the TripAdvisor app, hotel, restaurant and attraction owners may visit the TripAdvisor Widget Centre, enter their property name, follow the prompts and select the TripAdvisor App for Facebook - www.tripadvisor.com/widgets.
The TripAdvisor App for Facebook is available in a wide range of languages, including English, Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Korean and Thai.
For more information, please visit TripAdvisor's user guides located here( http://cdn.tripadvisor.com/pdfs/email/FacebookApp_UKEnglish.pdf ).
About TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor(TM) is the world's largest travel site,* enabling travelers to plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor offers trusted advice from real travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools. TripAdvisor branded sites make up the largest travel community in the world, with more than 60 million unique monthly visitors*, and over 75 million reviews and opinions. The sites operate in 30 countries worldwide, including China under daodao.com. TripAdvisor also includes TripAdvisor for Business, a dedicated division that provides the tourism industry access to millions of monthly TripAdvisor visitors.
TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP) manages and operates websites under 19 other travel media brands, and together the sites attract more than 74 million unique monthly visitors.** TripAdvisor, Inc.'s travel media brands include www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.everytrail.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.holidaylettings.co.uk, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.independenttraveler.com, www.onetime.com, www.seatguru.com, www.sniqueaway.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.tingo.com, www.travel-library.com, www.travelpod.com, www.virtualtourist.com, www.whereivebeen.com, and www.kuxun.cn.
*Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor Sites, Worldwide, July 2012
**Source: comScore Media Metrix for TripAdvisor, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Worldwide, July 2012
(C)2012 TripAdvisor, Inc. All rights reserved.
Notes:
1. Source: Facebook, active users as of October 2012
2. According to a September 2012 PhoCusWright survey of 2,739 respondents.
Participants for the study were solicited at random through a pop-up
invitation link on TripAdvisor.com.
(C)2012 TripAdvisor, Inc. All rights reserved.
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