FIRST: Daniel Craig at EHotelier is incredible funny. Well played sir… 2010 Trends. Hilarious for us dorky hotel types. And… anyone that wants to look at and figure out this abstract from
All this being told… I think the slide and panic is over. Our awful day at the beach is done, and what happens next is shaking out the blanket to clear the sand…. and we will see what is jarred loose from the hotel economic fabric. The problems that are still to come are not pro-longed troubles for hotels, it is simply the back end of the recession working itself out. Until then…. buckle up…. I doubt it will be too bumpy a drive home, but it’s gonna be a long ride.
The rest that is cut off (hey I am a hotel guy, not a HTML guy) says “($42/month), would you?” You can take the survey yourself right here: TripAdvisor Survey for Owners. I will let the pic
I had been chatting with the guys at Market Metrix a couple months ago about the necessity of using their solid metrics with social media. Of course, I didn’t know they were already up to something….Â
Once again, I get carried away with a response to a blog post. I am sure this counts as real business right? Newsweek’s Budget Travel has a great article about TripAdvisor trying to deal with the long coming revelation that many of their users and reviews are not legitimate. This is, frankly, a huge blow to the site, and should pose a happy problem in it’s early adolescence as they deal with all the changes that come along with growing into adulthood. Frankly, I am thrilled that this may provoke User Generated Content sites to seek the same verification model other sites have.
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