Tuesday, 30 April 2013

A ITB Berlin, Google et TripAdvisor ne vendent pas la peau des agents de voyage…


A ITB Berlin, Google et TripAdvisor ne vendent pas la peau des agents de voyage…



Article: http://www.tendancehotellerie.fr/articles-breves/marketing-distribution/1243-article/a-itb-berlin-google-et-tripadvisor-ne-vendent-pas-la-peau-des-agents-de-voyage


The social medias have been developping very much since the appearance of the Web 2.0. On a leisure basis at the beginning, tourism pros understood the potential of these IT tools for the distribution, to ensure a CRM strategy and use revenue management concepts.
There are different sorts of social medias such as Social networks like facebook or LinkedIn allowing people to build up a network and share informations with them or content sharing portals such as TripAdvisor who completely changed the tourism industry through the important numbers of feedbacks and advises the customers can give about a tourism experience in a Hotel/Restaurant.

TripAdvisor is, since 2012 quoted in the stock exchange and has become the first tourism advisor website to rise the 50 Million visitors monthly worldwide.
The present article discuss the changes the industry has known because of websites such as TripAdvisor as it could lead to a fall of the travel agencies. Indeed, the travel agencies tasks have been opened publically with the 2.0 Websites.

Are these sites reliable though ?

The principle of this website being to let the customers give their feedbacks without having the possibility to control if what they relate is true, it became a very dangerous tool for some tourism pros who can be tackled by competitors eplaning why TripAdvisor has been sued.

Indeed, the text explains that Bernd Fauser responsible for Google International travels is convinced that even if the travel agencies have to adapt their business model, they can still survive in this market as they can always propose some specific services to customers looking for complicated services for the tourists.

TripAdvisor has been a real progress for the customers allowing them to get feedbacks and favorize the best places to experience. However it will ever be a fight place for the tourism pros to criticize the competitors as long as the company doesn’t invest in softwares to dismantle the fake comments. 

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