Reasons why I do not use Nor intend to have my business on TripAdvisor as a Tourism professional. Read below main facts and click on my LinkedIn in Bio 🔝for more in-depth explanation: "THE SUMMARY: A COMPLETE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, FOLLOW THE MONEY. So to put it all of these points into context, TripAdvisor started in 2000 and built a huge following as a “trusted source of travel information”. Once it gained a dominant share of the market, the number of fake reviews skyrocketed, resulting in multiple court cases around the world. But instead of taking measures to verify and guarantee the reliability of the reviews, they simply changed the “trust” slogan to “the biggest” and began making money as a booking engine, charging companies for preferential visibility, acquiring the booking engines like Viator to profit from the tours they supposedly recommend without bias, and pressuring companies to give up 20–30% of their sales in commissions for added “access to traffic”. The lack of transparency hurts travelers because they think all of the businesses are fairly represented on TripAdvisor, and because their size and power now means they are too big to ignore, pressuring small businesses to work “with” them in order to protect their business reputation. Travelers also don’t realize that when they use third-party booking sites that it represents a serious bite into any business’s revenue, and they make up for that by charging more, so eventually the consumer ends up paying for TripAdvisor’s commissions (whose CEO happens to be the 4th highest paid in the United States)." https://medium.com/choking-on-a-macaron/what-you-don-t-know-about-tripadvisor-15d31d745bdc #realityvsexpectation #trustyourjourney #notallyoureadistrue #travelguides #localtravelguide #privatetraveldesigner #walkwithlocals #pathmorocco #traveltips #smarttravel #travelexperiences #traveladict #traveljournalist #tourismprofessional #traveltomorocco #morocco #portugal #españa #england #brasil #unitedstates #southamerica #asia (at Some Where in the World) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ZNdZ1hjLR/?igshid=cn8esty7lby7