Which business based in Needham, Massachussets claims to be the world's largest and most popular travel community with over 100 million user-generated reviews of hotels, restaurants and attractions?
"at total of 25 stars to 17 of the company's restaurants, including Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong (three restaurants), Macau, Paris (three restaurants) and Florence. The company has been recognized by Forbes Travel Guide with many of its properties earning a Forbes Fives Star rating. In 2017, 30 properties received the five-star rating, making it the most five-star ratings earned than any other hotel brand since its inception. TripAdvisor named the Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora #1 Hotel for Romance in the World. The company and its hotels and resorts have been involved in a number of philanthropic programs, with"
"headquarters of TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel site, reaching nearly 280 million unique monthly visitors. TripAdvisor moved into a newly built headquarters in neighboring Needham. Data is from the 2009–2013 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Newton's proximity to Boston, along with its good public schools and safe and quiet neighborhoods, make it a very desirable community for those who commute to Boston or work in Newton's businesses and industries. Newton is well-served by three modes of mass transit run by the MBTA: light rail, commuter rail, and bus service. The Green Line ""D"" Branch, (also known as the Riverside branch)"
"was valued at over US$84.1 billion in October 2018. As of 2018, Booking Holdings ranked 229th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue. Booking Holdings Booking Holdings Inc. is a company organized in Delaware and based in Norwalk, Connecticut that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda.com, Kayak.com, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable. It operates websites in about 40 languages and 200 countries. In 2017, 89% of its gross profit was made outside the United States – most of which used Booking.com."
"Booking Holdings Booking Holdings Inc. is a company organized in Delaware and based in Norwalk, Connecticut that owns and operates several travel fare aggregators and travel fare metasearch engines including namesake and flagship Booking.com, Priceline.com, Agoda.com, Kayak.com, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, and OpenTable. It operates websites in about 40 languages and 200 countries. In 2017, 89% of its gross profit was made outside the United States – most of which used Booking.com. In 2017, consumers booked 673.1 million room nights of accommodation, 73.0 million rental car days, and 6.9 million airplane tickets using websites owned by Booking Holdings. In 2017, 93.4%"
"TripAdvisor Media Group operates 25 travel brands including TripAdvisor, Airfarewatchdog, BookingBuddy, Citymaps, Cruise Critic, Family Vacation Critic, FlipKey, GateGuru, Holiday Lettings, Holiday Watchdog, Independent Traveler, Jetsetter, lafourchette, Niumba, OneTime, SeatGuru, SmarterTravel, Tingo, TravelPod, Tripbod, VacationHomeRentals, Viator, and VirtualTourist. TripAdvisor operates websites internationally. TripAdvisor was founded by Stephen Kaufer, Langley Steinert, Nick Shanny, and Thomas Palka in February 2000. Kaufer has stated that the original idea wasn't a user generated social media site to swap reviews, ""We started as a site where we were focused more on those official words from guidebooks or newspapers or magazines. We also had a button"
"by ""Forbes"", its list of the 400 best managed, public American companies with $1 billion or more in revenues included Expedia for the first time. Expedia Group Expedia Group is an American global travel technology company. Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, CheapTickets, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago, and Venere.com. According to Rich Barton, the company's first CEO, the word ""Expedia"" is derived from a combination of ""exploration"" and ""speed"". Founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996, Expedia was spun off in 1999. In 2003, it was purchased"
"Trip by Skyscanner Trip by Skyscanner (formerly known as Gogobot and Trip.com) is a local discovery and travel research application and website headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company is acquired by Skyscanner, a subsidiary of the Ctrip Group. Trip by Skyscanner allows users to research destinations and places to go, including hotels, restaurants, bars and attractions in more than 60,000 destinations, and its users can share reviews and pictures from their own travel experiences. ""Forbes"" has referred to the company as a ""social network for travelers."" Founded in 2010, Trip by Skyscanner is the fifth most visited travel-planning site"
"Holiday Inn Holiday Inn is a British-owned American brand of hotels, and a subsidiary of InterContinental Hotels Group. Founded as a U.S. motel chain, it has grown to be one of the world's largest hotel chains, with 1,145 active hotels . The hotel chain's headquarters are in Denham, Buckinghamshire. Kemmons Wilson, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, was inspired to build his own motel after being disappointed by poor quality and inconsistent roadside accommodation during a family road trip to Washington, D.C. The name ""Holiday Inn"" was coined by Wilson's architect Eddie Bluestein as a joke during construction of the first"
"their first years of touring across America, they would stay in the same identical rooms no matter where they were. As Bernie summed up in the lyrics, ""From a terminal gate to a black limousine, it's a ten-minute ride to the Holiday Inn"". Holiday Inn Holiday Inn is a British-owned American brand of hotels, and a subsidiary of InterContinental Hotels Group. Founded as a U.S. motel chain, it has grown to be one of the world's largest hotel chains, with 1,145 active hotels . The hotel chain's headquarters are in Denham, Buckinghamshire. Kemmons Wilson, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, was"
"Marriott Hotels & Resorts Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's flagship brand of full-service hotels and resorts. The company, based in Bethesda, Maryland, is repeatedly included on the ""Forbes"" list of best companies to work for, and it was voted the fourth best company to work for in the UK by ""The Times"" in 2009. As of September 2017, there were 566 hotels and resorts operating under the brand. The loyalty program is called Marriott Rewards. The Marriott chain began with two motels in the 1950s. The first opened as a Quality Inn airport motel near Washington D.C. and"
"Skyscanner Skyscanner is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since November 2016 the website has been owned by Ctrip, the largest travel company in China. The site is available in over 30 languages and is used by 60 million people per month. The news section of the website includes regular news from the travel and flight industry and travel tips for customers. The website is the winner of many awards. The company was formed in 2004 by three information technology professionals, Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes, after one of them was"
"Benhamou Global Ventures, Cambrian Ventures and Index Ventures. Mobissimo initially garnered attention in the media for its low fares and groundbreaking approach to travel booking. In 2010, the Chicago Tribune quoted it as one of the “3 Leading Search Engines” for travel. It was also said to “out execute” their main competitor, Kayak.com, by TechCrunch. Mobissimo Mobissimo is a fare aggregator and metasearch engine website based in San Francisco, California. It allows consumers to compare prices on flights, hotels, and car rentals. It aggregates the results from over 180 online travel agencies, consolidators, and ticket vendors to show a side-by-side"
"August 1, 2006, all Cendant hotel brands became part of Wyndham Worldwide. Wyndham Worldwide consists of the following brands of hotels: Baymont Inn & Suites, Days Inn, Howard Johnson's, Microtel, Ramada, Super 8, Travelodge, Wyndham, Wyndham Garden Hotels, Hawthorn Suites, and Wingate by Wyndham. Besides hotels, the company also operates Wyndham Vacation Resorts (formerly Fairfield Resorts) and WorldMark by Wyndham (formerly Trendwest) time share resorts. In 2013, Wyndham Worldwide acquired Shell Vacations Club for $102 million including $153 million of debt. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit against Wyndham in June 2012 following a security breach that led to"
"house user data for over 22 million users in 193 different countries. WAYN.com commercialises its website through advertising and integrated brand engagement solutions. The site also offers a membership service (VIP) for users who wish to access to travel and lifestyle benefits. More recently, the site launched a travel booking service for users to book their hotels and tours globally. WAYN (website) WAYN (an acronym for ""Where Are You Now?"") is a social travel network which has been the subject of criticism. Its stated goal is to ""help discover where to go and meet like-minded people."" WAYN was founded in"
"Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Wyndham Hotels and Resorts is an international hotel and resort chain based in the United States. It has locations in Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Turkey, Germany, the UK, the Caribbean and Margarita Island In Venezuela. The company sold many of its hotels in the early 2000s. Wyndham Hotel Corporation was founded in 1981 in Dallas, Texas, by Trammell Crow, the president of Trammel Crow Company (TCC). The company appears to have been named after a friend of Crow's, a woman named Wyndham Robertson, who wrote a profile of him for Fortune. As the company grew, it"
"read late on Thursday, November 17, 2016 … Wyndham Destinations Wyndham Destinations (formerly Wyndham Worldwide Corporation) is an American hospitality company. It is the holding company for RCI and other lodging brands. It was spun off from Cendant Corporation in July 2006. Wyndham Destinations, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, operates several hotel brands around the world. Wyndham Hotel Group offers brands in lodging franchising, vacation ownership, vacation rentals and vacation exchange. It is composed of more than 9,000 hotels under 21 brands spanning more than 75 countries in six continents, competing in brand markets ranging from economy to upscale. Wyndham Worldwide"
"individual property owners. Wyndham Vacation Ownership, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is the largest vacation ownership program in the world. It includes a network of 213 properties, 25,000 individual units, and over 925,000 property owners. Locations are in North America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Wyndham Vacation Ownership includes marketing and sales of vacation ownership interests, consumer financing in conjunction with the purchase of vacation ownership interests, property management services to property owners' associations, and development and acquisition of vacation ownership resorts. Wyndham Exchange and Rentals officially changed its name to Wyndham Destination Network on January 1, 2016, and operates"
"FlipKey FlipKey is an online vacation rental marketplace. It is a subsidiary of TripAdvisor. In 2016 the company listed more than 300,000 properties in 179 countries. Its headquarters is in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Although rental owners are verified by the company's staff before being added to the FlipKey website, the site relies heavily on traveler reviews of rental properties. FlipKey also publishes ratings for travel-related items such as food blogs and in the United States it provides ratings of national historic sites. Citing complaints that FlipKey would not guarantee functional amenities in its rental sites, in 2016 Better Business"
"the flight / Skyscanner, I book it on-site"". Skyscanner Skyscanner is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since November 2016 the website has been owned by Ctrip, the largest travel company in China. The site is available in over 30 languages and is used by 60 million people per month. The news section of the website includes regular news from the travel and flight industry and travel tips for customers. The website is the winner of many awards. The company was formed in 2004 by three information technology professionals, Gareth Williams, Barry Smith"
"the website is owned by the France-based startup company HundresLabs SAS (Société par actions simplifiée). The company has partnered with websites such as Amadeus IT Group. MyLittleAdventure MyLittleAdventure is a website where travellers can search and book things to do all over the world. The user needs to choose any city in the world, select and rank what matters most to him, and get the activity recommendations according to his preferences. MyLittleAdventure's database includes 56k restaurants, 245k tours and activities providers, 30k things to do with locals and 45k live events, as well as tickets to numerous tourist attractions and"
"Condé Nast Traveler in 2015 with reader choice awards for ""The Best Hotels & Resorts in the World"". Montage Hotels & Resorts Montage International (or Montage Hotels) is a luxury hotel and resort management company founded by Alan Fuerstman and based in Orange County, California. The company currently operates 5 properties in the United States with one upcoming in Mexico and Healdsburg, plus another two under the Pendry Hotel brand. Montage International was founded in January 2002 by Alan Fuerstman. The first major acquisition by Montage occurred in June 2002 when the company partnered with the Athens Group to purchase"
"Expedia Group Expedia Group is an American global travel technology company. Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, CheapTickets, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago, and Venere.com. According to Rich Barton, the company's first CEO, the word ""Expedia"" is derived from a combination of ""exploration"" and ""speed"". Founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996, Expedia was spun off in 1999. In 2003, it was purchased by IAC/InterActiveCorp. In August 2005, IAC spun off Expedia Inc., which owned its travel group of businesses, including Expedia, Expedia Corporate Travel (now Egencia), TripAdvisor,"
"Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York. Published 12 times a year, it has 4.8 million readers, according to its corporate media kit. It is owned and published by Meredith Corporation. Its main competitors are ""Condé Nast Traveler"" and ""National Geographic Traveler"". Initially published in 1937 as ""U.S. Camera and Travel"", the magazine later assumed the name ""Travel + Leisure"" in 1971. The predecessor titles focused on travel photography, but the name change signaled a shift toward travel coverage in general. The magazine specializes in leisure travel and often features"
"Booking.com Booking.com is a travel fare aggregator website and travel metasearch engine for lodging reservations. It is owned and operated by and is the primary revenue source of United States-based Booking Holdings. Booking.com is headquartered in Amsterdam. The website has more than 29,094,365 listings in 143,172 destinations in 230 countries and territories worldwide. Each day more than 1,550,000 room nights are reserved on the website. The site is available in 43 languages. Their slogan is ""Homes, houses and everything in between"", although in commercials it is ""Booking.com: Booking.yeah"". Booking.com was formed when bookings.nl, founded in 1996 by Geert-Jan Bruinsma, merged"
"Trip.com Trip.com is an online travel agency, first launched in late 2017. The Trip.com brand is owned by Ctrip, the world's second largest online travel agency, which is also the parent company of Skyscanner. The Trip.com brand was acquired by Ctrip in 2017 and became the basis for their website aimed at international audiences. The brand also has a popular mobile app available on Android and iOS. The site provides booking services for flights, hotels, trains, car rentals, airport transfers, tours and attraction tickets. According to their site, more than 1,200,000 hotels and accommodations are bookable through the website, while"
"holiday providers. According to Simon Calder, Travel Editor at The Independent, “the ResponsibleTravel business model overturned conventional travel thinking. Instead of intervening between the travel enterprise and the tourist, as most agents do, Francis urges them to talk directly.” The company has sold over $100 million worth of holidays. In 2010 www.responsiblevacation.com was launched in the US. The company is based in Brighton, East Sussex UK. As of November 2018 there were 31 employees. Responsible Travel was the ""first online guide to responsible international travel"". Responsible travel and tourism is about making better places for people to live in and"
"other unique content. Some examples of websites that use a combination of travel reviews and the booking of travel are TripAdvisor, Priceline, Liberty Holidays, and Expedia. Individual airlines, hotels, bed and breakfasts, cruise lines, automobile rental companies, and other travel-related service providers often maintain their own web sites providing retail sales. Many with complex offerings include some sort of search engine technology to look for bookings within a certain timeframe, service class, geographic location, or price range. An online travel agency (OTA) specializes in offering planning sources and booking capabilities. Major OTAs include: The average consumer visits 3.6 sites when"
"by business rivals. KwikChex KwikChex is a Bournemouth based online reputation management firm founded by Chris Emmins. According to Emmins, TripAdvisor unfairly and inconsistently penalises small businesses when a person connected to the business posts reviews when larger businesses are not penalised in the same way. It has particularly questioned the integrity of TripAdvisor's Chinese operation and the Timeshare Consumer Association. Emmins identified “amazingly prolific” reviewers on the TripAdvisor's Chinese site, including one who had posted 2633 reviews between 2010 and 2014. In 2010 the company was canvassing a group defamation action against TripAdvisor for carrying hostile reviews invented or"
"members. According to Starwood Hotels and Resorts' corporate profile, the SPG program has over 21 million members. Starwood Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, LLC is a subsidiary of Marriott International. Prior to its merger with Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott, it was an American hotel and leisure company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. It was one of the world's largest hotel companies that owns, operates, franchises and manages hotels, resorts, spas, residences, and vacation ownership properties under its 11 owned brands. , Starwood Hotels and Resorts owned, managed, or franchised over 1,200 properties employing over 180,400 people, of whom approximately 26% were employed"
"in Amherst, Massachusetts . They came up with the name of the site, Otalo, by combining the Zen symbol enzo (""O"") with the Finnish word for house (""talo"") after having found so many website names already taken. Otalo.com was launched in 2009, providing search of over 200,000 vacation rental listings. In February 2012, Otalo increased its search index to over 1.6 million vacation rental listings in 164 countries. Otalo.com is a travel metasearch engine that enables visitors to search across many vacation rental sites with a single search. The site aggregates listings from multiple vacation rental sites, eliminating duplicate information"
"to have those reviews either taken down or declined for posting by TripAdvisor. In November 2017, Oobah Butler, a journalist for Vice Media, used fake reviews to boost a nonexistent restaurant named The Shed at Dulwich to the top of Tripadvisor rankings for restaurants in London. When questioned about its fraud-prevention systems, TripAdvisor responded that this type of fraud was not generally seen, because unlike artificially good reviews for a real restaurant, creating good reviews for a non-existent restaurant is not profitable. TripAdvisor TripAdvisor, Inc. is an American travel and restaurant website company that shows hotel and restaurant reviews, accommodation"
"Express Publishing by Time Inc. (which would later be acquired by Meredith Corporation) on October 1, 2013. Current and defunct international editions: Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York. Published 12 times a year, it has 4.8 million readers, according to its corporate media kit. It is owned and published by Meredith Corporation. Its main competitors are ""Condé Nast Traveler"" and ""National Geographic Traveler"". Initially published in 1937 as ""U.S. Camera and Travel"", the magazine later assumed the name ""Travel + Leisure"" in 1971. The predecessor titles focused on travel"
"Tripping.com Tripping.com is an online search engine and aggregator for vacation rentals. It aggregates over 10 million listings in more than 150,000 cities worldwide. It is based in San Francisco, California. Tripping.com partners with and displays listings from booking websites including Booking.com, HomeAway, VRBO, FlipKey, Housetrip, Roomorama, Interhome, Novasol, Wimdu, ZenRentals, Bedycasa, WayToStay, Gloveler, HolidayVelvet, 9flats, AlwaysOnVacation, RedAwning, and Housetrip. Users can search by price, ratings, location and a long list of features and amenities. Tripping.com was founded in 2009 by Nate Weisiger and Jen O’Neal, both former employees of StubHub, and Jeff Manheimer, a travel industry professional with experience"