6 WAYS YOU'RE USING TRIPADVISOR WRONG
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2018
- Have you ever filtered restaurant reviews to read what locals have to say? Do you realize TripAdvisor hides hotels it can't make money from? Are you being suckered by TripAdvisor's domination of Google results? The behemoth of the travel industry can be one of the best - or worst - tools around.
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Adorei que o tema desse canal não seja como 99% dos canais de viagem que esfregam na sua cara "Olha que incrível essa viagem chique que você provavelmente nunca irá fazer". É uma abordagem bastante diferente, parabéns pelo conteúdo Seth!
Verdade!!! Também gosto disso. O Seth é muuito gente boa.
What an awesome video!! Thank you, 7!!
Thank you this video helped me tremendously
That's interesting! Thanks for the tips, the channel is being very useful and fun :)
OMG! Best video ever! Original, useful, made from one traveler to another traveler!
I was using it wrong!
Thanks Seth!
I really wish I was inspired to travel more because your TripAdvisor hacks seem like they’d actually help me get the most out of the site. I’m filing this wisdom away just in case there’s a sudden uptick in my wanderlust.
Excelente. Eu usava alguns filtros, mas usarei mais. Valeu a dica.
Loved this and, although I knew some of these tips, definitely learned enough to quit avoiding TripAdvisor. This was my first look at your videos (though I used to read you in the Times). I am looking forward to watching more! Oh, and btw, I really appreciate the editing and “get to the point” approach.
Legal! Consegui entender quase tudo. Dicas muito boas mesmo. Thx!
Achei que já sabia tudo sobre o TripAdvisior mas aprendi mais algumas coisas. Vou usar na minha próxima viagem. Boa sorte com o canal novo!!!! Adoro seus vídeos sejam em português ou inglês!!!
Yes, it took me awhile to catch on to the fact that when Trip Advisor said there were "no rooms available" in all the other possible places to stay in this area for the dates I had chosen, they meant "no rooms left on booking.com, etc.". And I never thought of changing to the local language for restaurant reviews. I miss the old days at TripAdvisor when it was all suggestions and reviews for travelers mostly generated by travelers. For awhile I quit using it and doing reviews. However, I've come back because once one wades through all the "best" lists and down to the actual ratings, one can find fantastic local suggestions and information about almost any location in the world. And by reviewing a place, I might encourage someone else to share in my good experience. It's a way to say thank you!
Cheers for that, helpful.
Oh my Seth! I'm glad I have been using the same tricks as you! Thanks for posting
We're both geniuses!
Thank you very much for this youtube channel. This way I gonna get better and better in my listening English.
TripAdvisore and Trivago operate the same way. By all means use TripAdvisor and Trivago to find the hotel you want but DO NOT BOOK THROUGH THEM ON LINE, instead call the Hotel direct and they will offer the room to you for the same or CHEAPER price because they do not have to pay a commission to TripAdvisor or Trivago. By doing this you help support small family business and keep the buck here, not in some overseas multimillionaires bank account.
Esse canal já é tão bom que eu não estou mais me contentando com 1 vídeo por dia!
hahaha thanks
The Acrobatic Cow... how funny! Hahaha! I missed your videos in English. Now I can see them again. Thank you. XOXO
great explanation
Excellent tips. I always search hotels and restaurants in TripAdvisor. In July I intend to Go to Santiago in Chile. So I AM doing a lot of searching about accomodation in the last days.
Have a great trip. Be sure to go to the Mercado Central, and also to have an empanada de pino!
O canal é ótimo! Very useful! Parabéns Seth. Arrasou!
Thank you!
Que bom, descobri pelo seu vídeo que já estava pesquisando direitinho, Seth! Quem prefere planejar antes de viajar, tem que descobrir que não pode ser preguiçoso se não vai pagar caro por coisas que você descobriria por conta própria. Eu confesso que não gosto muito de surpresas, prefiro planejar, diferente do que você disse no seu outro vídeo. Mas já começo a me divertir nas pesquisas. Bem legal o canal.
Since I haven’t really used Trip Advisor much this was extremely useful...thanks.
Glad to hear!
Could you do video about tailoring businesses in Phuket Rawai ... very helpful video.. thanks for sharing your ideas and thoughts
As a hotelier I agree 100% a great presentation. Tripadvisor was originally an awesome site driven by traveller reviews, but became monetised when they were sold to Expedia. Several years ago I was "roped" into an annual contract by one of their "Sales executives" who promised it was a "Pay as you Go" monthly ad campaign and if I didn't like it? Cancel at any time. Well, It turned out the guy left the company and I was saddled with a 1 year contract which apparently was only cancellable within the first 28 days. I wasted over £2000 promoting a light blue "Hotel Website" button only for it to disappear behind an OTA sponsored "popup" when you tried to point the mouse at it! NEVER AGAIN!
As hospitality businesses we are in search of “quick fix marketing” and “the best reviews” but that takes, knowledge, time and money. OTA's and large Hotel chains can afford huge marketing campaigns, SEO and agencies writing “convincing” reviews for them and answering guest complaints. The rest of us rely on having a genuine great product, USP's (unique selling points) emphatic well trained staff that identify customer needs and provide genuine customer service. Creating a relaxing environment and taking the time to engage with customers is key - Word of mouth personal recommendations are the cornerstone of marketing. The Current Social Distancing is a disaster!
Back in 1989, my wife and I had 4 years, experience as hoteliers we ran a 10 room B&B with 4 rooms en-suite and far from the Underground, but our clientele were blue collar workers with vans, working in London Monday to Thursday, we would be empty for 3 days! There was no marketing other than an A5 leaflet drop of our prices on car windscreens parked in adjacent streets.
The Cunard International, now the Novotel Hammersmith was the only good hotel in West London, the others, including ours were at best “Well rough”.
One weekend some polite, scruffy looking, American teenagers came to stay at our Dalmacia hotel. They were worried about leaving a their speakers, amplifiers, guitars and a drum kit in a parked van overnight and they wanted to pay on departure as they only had US dollars. Being a small hotel we were sympathetic and trusting, so they signed our visitor’s book, and we took their passports for security (Trusting not stupid). Back then there were no computers, websites or PMS systems, just an A4 sheet of paper with 70 squares, showing 10 rooms and 7 days.
Our USP was 4 Sky channels, Colour TV in all rooms, a hotel phone system and fax machine. After 3 days stay the phone bill was already more than the accommodation cost. We were anxious, but on check out day they brought a black bin liner of £1 notes and 2 buckets of coins, to pay. (WTF?) It was the money from Nirvana's London gig, they were too tired to count it all out. Following that visit they came a few more times in the following years, took loads of pictures and recommended many other bands. Dave Grohl liked our English Tea so much he mentioned it in a recent press interview, google it.
In 2014 we closed our Dalmacia Hotel after 29 year in business. I took down the Dalmacia Hotel sign shown in pictures of Nirvana, sitting on the steps of our hotel.
The building is still there but the Dalmacia hotel name and reputation is not. Tripadvisor are showing it as 678 out of 1155 currently available hotels today and someone even left a review in 2018, 4 years after we closed. How is that possible? Just emphasizes your observations in the video, they are out of touch.
In 1997 we opened Adria Hotel, in a better location, a larger building and much closer to the Underground, many of our previous Dalmacia Hotel guests still visit.
Hospitality is a great business you meet interesting people from around the world, from all walks of life many of whom leave a lasting impression.
Now the whole world is waiting for a combination of incompetent journalists, corrupt politicians and unscrupulous bankers to show us the way forward.
We are in for a long wait, Stay safe.
Please give me some tips for hotel business, I have a small property and iam new in this
Está muito interessante a abordagem dada ao tema. Será um sucesso. Parabéns pela iniciativa de dividir suas experiências com a gente.
Thanks
Sensacional!!!
Oh, what is also very helpful is to look at the photos taken by the guests! They really show you if there are dusty lampshades, mouldy bathrooms and dirty floors, it's great to see how well the hotel is mantained. I also like to keep track of how old the review is, because a review that's older than 2 years might not reflect the actual state of the hotel (for better or for worse), some hotels go through renovations and staff change so all bad reviews from 2015 could be irrelevant by now!
Hi there! We got scam by TripAdvisor... we booked an apartment recently, they deducted the payment from our card then the owner declined the booking request. The money didn't get credit back to our card. They allowed people to booked apartments but it's not available they just took the money...
great sharing
Omg, these videos are great!
Much appreciated! Please share!
Hi there! I don't have much experience with travel and I am saving up to do so. I will have to be budget conscious. I really appreciate your information. I have subscribed to your channel and I hope that When I am ready to travel, perhaps I could ask you for some tips. Thank you!
Hi Seth! I started using trip advisor when it did not sell anything, and I agree with you that they changed a little bit, you should use it wisely. I keep using it, mostly for hotels, not so much for attractions. I like to read the user's experience about the hotel, like rooms' size, if it's a noisy area, if the beds are ok, if the breakfast is good and of course any tip that a traveler has to share about it. (When I went to Japan everybody adviced about specifiyng non-smoker room otherwise the smell of the room would be annoying, so I took extra care about it). Of course, I like to share my own tips also! Oh, and I also look at the user's ranking and ignore the newbies. About the attractions, I like to read some blogs and get some tips about places and experiences that made the difference in their travel, like an unmissable place. And that's why I started watching Amigo Gringo's channel, to learn NY tips from the view of a New Yorker. 😃😉🇧🇷
Thanks Gabriela! By the way, watch out for cigarette odors in rooms in China, too.
Amei essas dicas, uso muito o TripAdvisor mas sempre fico meio ligeiro com as armadilhas mesmo. Depois do vídeo, fiquei expert!
Thanks Diener!
Hello, i love your youtube channel, I was wondering if you can make a video on how to make money from TripAdvisor, more precisely on how to write travel article for money? Thanks a lot.
Good points. I always include photos to prove that my review is legit. And for restaurant reviews, I post a photo of my receipt.
Seth, congratulations on your new channel!
I think produce videos about worldwide travel was a good decision that you did, and now, making videos in the english language, you can expand your potencial public, and maybe receive a bit more money per view from youtube (as you said brazilian youtube doesn't pay much as american youtube).
Honnestly, I wish you succeed with this new projet! I began to watch yours "Amigo Gringo" videos in 2015, I guess, and I always noticed the passion that you put in your work, and I'm sure that you'll have the same passion in this new channel! Keep producing your high quality videos that everything will work out!
Best regards!
Thanks very much Gabriel!
Seth otimo video. Que tal o google maps, uso, tem menos recursos, mas me dou bem sempre. Beijos
That's true too!
Não conhecia esse site, vou viajar para os EUA, nada verdade vou para trabalhar 1 mês lá.
To be honest, I always get confused when I am on TripAdvisor...next time I’ll stick to your advices tks!
You are welcome 😊
Your intro is so 90's!
Hi there! We got scam by TripAdvisor... we booked an apartment recently, they deducted the payment from our card then the owner declined the booking request. The money didn't get credit back to our card. They allowed people to booked apartments but it's not available they just took the money...
I'm going to Argentina, these tips are actually gonna come in handy
Tahanks
Hi there! We got scam by TripAdvisor... we booked an apartment recently, they deducted the payment from our card then the owner declined the booking request. The money didn't get credit back to our card. They allowed people to booked apartments but it's not available they just took the money...
I try five times upload foto with the my review in app and not working. What i can do?
Huh, very interesting tips Seth, never knew the rating on trip advisor changes based on language! Also, I don't use trip advisor for hotels, normally I use booking, but never paid attention if there was some sorting there beneficial to the site. Will pay more attention next time!
Watch out, on booking they also favor the hotels that pay them extra. Always re-sort!
Hi there! We got scam by TripAdvisor... we booked an apartment recently, they deducted the payment from our card then the owner declined the booking request. The money didn't get credit back to our card. They allowed people to booked apartments but it's not available they just took the money...
Hi Seth! Congrats on you new channel! A ideia for your next videos here: tips for travellers who live in countrys where the coin vallue is low. I think it would be usefull to many people, like the south americans. Wish success to your new channel. Compliments from the capital of butecos and de feijão tropeiro's pizza land!
Vou escrever em português caso o inglês tenha ficado confuso!
Oi 7! Parabéns pelo novo canal! Uma sugestão para os próximos vídeos são dicas para viajantes que vivem em países onde a moeda é fraca (como real < dólar). Acho que seria bem útil para muita gente, como os sul americanos. Desejo sucesso para seu novo canal. Abraços da capital dos botecos e terra da pizza de feijão tropeiro! (Belo Horizonte - MG❤)
Thanks, good idea.
hello how are u doing?, I am getting a problem adding an itinerary on TripAdvisor can u help me to fix this error, please?
do u know if reading their online reviews goes against fair use? cant they claim ownership of those reviews?
Cool
Cool video! Tripadvisor is way better than Yelp. Are you on BitChute?
Can someone please fix tripadvisor?
Salut Sept, c'est super ! J'ai aimé cette vidéo. Il y a beaucoup de orientations très intéressant et intelligents. Hi Seven, that was a great video! There are a lot of interesting and intelligent orientation. Fala Seth (7) 😉, Muito bom este vídeo, cheio de dicas interessantes e inteligentes. Saber usar os recursos de filtros e sobretudo entender como interpretar as estatísticas que algumas pesquisas fornecem nem sempre é ao pé da letra. Entender que um 90 por cento (não achei o símbolo de porcentagem neste teclado 🤐) nem sempre é melhor do que um 70 por cento não é tão óbvio para a maioria das pessoas.
Foi realmente um show de dicas esse video. Merci e à la prochaine, see u,T+.
Are they buying ticket to Disneyland?
Trip Advisor should be ashamed of what happened recently to this american tourist in Thailand who was detained in a police station for a bad comment on a Koh Chang resort. This resort should be immediately banned from Trip Advisor, and all hotels, resorts and restaurants should sign a chart to stop this kind of practice from spreading.
A year ago I read an article relating that the owner of TripAdvisor had been charged with defrauding travelers overseas by booking lodging and not actually supplying it. I immediately dropped my membership, dropped my reviews (I was in the top 1% by number and have used the site very little since then. I will not be party to a crook!)
Hi there! We got scam by TripAdvisor... we booked an apartment recently, they deducted the payment from our card then the owner declined the booking request. The money didn't get credit back to our card. They allowed people to booked apartments but it's not available they just took the money...
Seems that TA was way better years ago. Restaurant now on top sucks. Before where great. Any other sites that where like trip advisor years back? Thank you
I confess that I've never cared a lot about TripAdvisor, should check it more!
DON'T DO IT! This video is really just for people who already use it. You can live without it.
I always take heed to the facts written on the reviews.
At the same time, I try to ignore when someone is too much full of its own opinion, like when people say: "You have to go there, and you have to go only at that time and you have to eat that only thing and buy that very same stuff I bought".
It should be easy, but some people can't just say: "I went there, I went at that time [etc.] and I liked it. Maybe you will like it too. But feel free to try something else."
Those "have to" bother me a lot.
For exemple, I went to the Corcovado (in Rio de Janeiro) two times and took the train to go up. One day someone told me: "If you didn't went up using the private vans, you never went to the Corcovado." So I answer: "Ok, then. I never went to the Corcovado two times."
Yes, great point about the attitudes of some people who write reviews on TripAdvisor.
Acho que vc está falando muito rápido. As dicas são ótimas mas tá osso de acompanhar nessa velocidade.☹️👍
Rose, I'm speaking for an American audience, so I'm speaking at my normal speed! Turn on the English captions to help you!
I'm started today with 10k and after 15 task I got premium task then deposited money I started rating and I got again premium task then I deposited money and started rating then I got 3rd premium task and my senior is saying to deposit the money 3.5k
Can u help me
This is the scam r not I don't know
Wow, I thought this was common sense. People don't know that it's all a numbers game with sponsored results?
I am sorry for posting a comment to your channel but it's not the same thing they way you think the TripAdvisor is...
Lemme tell you what, you sound the same in English or in Portuguese, but I feel like you speak a little faster in English, I like it better though, hehe
It sounds more natural idk
Blue_9002 ikr
I agree
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Great video!! Weird to listen to you speaking English, though. :)
I'm used to it. 😂
My God... One video a day?
Just this week. Two to go!
já cheguei
The Seth's vocabulary is a little complicated for me, even more because of the speed of the speech. In the normal videos I watch, I see 8~12 words on average. But on the Seth's videos I see kind of 14~20!
Hahahaha well I am really just speaking the way I do on Amigo Gringo, but in English. I hope the subtitles in English and Portuguese help!
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