{"id":211,"date":"2010-06-20T16:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-09-11T04:50:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T04:50:12","slug":"tripadvisor-com-or-virtualtourist-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/travel-review\/tripadvisor-com-or-virtualtourist-com","title":{"rendered":"Tripadvisor.com or virtualtourist.com?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Post-from-Tripadvisor2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-225\" title=\"A Post from Tripadvisor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Post-from-Tripadvisor2-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Post-from-Tripadvisor2-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Post-from-Tripadvisor2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 post from Tripadvisor.com, who would like to trade money for time and hassle free travel by using a local travel agency.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Both Tripadvisor.com and Virtualtourist.com are my favorite travel review sites. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">If I&#8217;m going abroad, I would go on\u00a0the \u00a0two travel review sites to check the online information on the country I will visit &#8211; where to stay, dine; what to see and do; travel tips and tour traps, etc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Tripadvisor and Virtualtourist are really good network places where common netizens share their reviews on hotels and vacations.\u00a0There are\u00a0moderators\u00a0monitor each post, especially\u00a0avoid any commercial posts. That&#8217;s good. Nowadays people rely more and more on the travel review sites to collect travel information.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">But everything has its two sides. Nothing is perfect. Take the travel forum at\u00a0tripadvisor.com for example, in my personal opinion, its travel forum\u00a0still has a long way to go before it really becomes a great travel review forum.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">1. Still easily abused<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Though\u00a0monitored by responsible moderators,\u00a0the forum still can be easily abused by some business-oriented\u00a0members who write fake feedback\u00a0promoting the hotels or services in order to boost the business concerned. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">2. Controlled by &#8220;time-honored&#8221; contributors<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Sometimes the forum is controlled by some &#8220;time-honored&#8221; contributors, or often called &#8220;destination expert&#8221;. In some cass, they will reproach\u00a0some members if their ideas or thoughts are not in compliance with them. They even work with moderators to have\u00a0that &#8220;guy&#8221; disappearing from the forum. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">3. Moderators are not robots<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Moderators try to be fair. But they are not robots. They are human beings.\u00a0Human beings make mistakes. They also\u00a0reserve the right to remove any post for any reason. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">4. Some members are biased<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Some members are biased. Their suggestions can be misleading.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">But anyhow,\u00a0tripadvisor is undeniably \u00a0a good travel review site currently.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Both Tripadvisor.com and Virtualtourist.com are my favorite travel review sites. \u00a0 \u00a0If I&#8217;m going abroad, I would go on\u00a0the \u00a0two travel review sites to check the online information on the country I will visit &#8211; where to stay, dine; what to see and do; travel tips and tour traps, etc.\u00a0 \u00a0 Tripadvisor and Virtualtourist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-tour-reviews","category-travel-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}