Well,
the WuBook feedbacks system can be de-activated: so, in each case, the problem you raise can be solved. Immediately.
However, I would like to add some considerations.
I think TripAdvisor is loosing visits. The very aggressive advertising of booking.com, together with their brand, are day by day monopolizing the market.
In fact, such sites (Trivago is another example) are trying to modify their core business and this is a proof of what I stated. It seems, for example, that Trivago wants change its target. Once, its main customers were the same OTAs. Today, it seems they're trying to make business with properties.
Why? My opinion is they feel their work, day by day, is less valuable for OTAs. They fear to loose their historical partners.
In my opinion, in few years, few OTAs will centralize a lot of services. They wil not visit TripAdvisor to read feedbacks. They will visit just the main OTAs, which will provide more reliable and up to date contents. Feedbacks included.
This is a lecture of the market. Let me add a news now.
We're deploying an OTA-like and Trip-Advisor-like site. Differently by an OTA, we will show your direct contacts and your direct online reception. The main goal is to help properties to maximize the direct reservations and direct contacts. It will be free. We will list (if you agree) your property. Your contacts. Your feedbacks.
So, a feedback leaved on WuBook will be published on this site, where your potential customes will find a direct communication with you. In other words, WuBook Feedbacks will not published only on (y)our onlne reception. Moreover, we're also working to let you easily install a widget on your site, exposing here the list of your feedbacks.
These new features will increase for sure the value of WuBook feedbacks.
This being said, you have 3 options, let's examine them:
1) Feedbacks disabled. Nothing changes.
2) Feedbacks enabled for Direct Reservations only: in such cases, you're eventually removing feedbacks from TripAdvisor to enrich your Online Reception, eventually your site and the OTA-like site we're developing. In my opinion, this is the best choice.
3) Feedbacks enabled for all reservations: more critical. The risk is feedbacks will be leaved on WuBook instead of Booking.com. And maybe a feedback on booking.com is more important than a feedback on your site, on your online reception and the OTA-like system we're developing
In my opinion our customers should choose the second option. Because a feedback on the online reception or on your site is more valuable than a feedback on TA. Tomorrow, in the case we will be able to increase the value of your feedbacks on our network, one will be able to choose the third option.
This is my point of view, with my poor english! I'm very interested about your opinion. And to eventually better analyze some topics that I described in few lines.
So, additional considerations are more than welcome!
Thank you for your posts!
the WuBook feedbacks system can be de-activated: so, in each case, the problem you raise can be solved. Immediately.
However, I would like to add some considerations.
I think TripAdvisor is loosing visits. The very aggressive advertising of booking.com, together with their brand, are day by day monopolizing the market.
In fact, such sites (Trivago is another example) are trying to modify their core business and this is a proof of what I stated. It seems, for example, that Trivago wants change its target. Once, its main customers were the same OTAs. Today, it seems they're trying to make business with properties.
Why? My opinion is they feel their work, day by day, is less valuable for OTAs. They fear to loose their historical partners.
In my opinion, in few years, few OTAs will centralize a lot of services. They wil not visit TripAdvisor to read feedbacks. They will visit just the main OTAs, which will provide more reliable and up to date contents. Feedbacks included.
This is a lecture of the market. Let me add a news now.
We're deploying an OTA-like and Trip-Advisor-like site. Differently by an OTA, we will show your direct contacts and your direct online reception. The main goal is to help properties to maximize the direct reservations and direct contacts. It will be free. We will list (if you agree) your property. Your contacts. Your feedbacks.
So, a feedback leaved on WuBook will be published on this site, where your potential customes will find a direct communication with you. In other words, WuBook Feedbacks will not published only on (y)our onlne reception. Moreover, we're also working to let you easily install a widget on your site, exposing here the list of your feedbacks.
These new features will increase for sure the value of WuBook feedbacks.
This being said, you have 3 options, let's examine them:
1) Feedbacks disabled. Nothing changes.
2) Feedbacks enabled for Direct Reservations only: in such cases, you're eventually removing feedbacks from TripAdvisor to enrich your Online Reception, eventually your site and the OTA-like site we're developing. In my opinion, this is the best choice.
3) Feedbacks enabled for all reservations: more critical. The risk is feedbacks will be leaved on WuBook instead of Booking.com. And maybe a feedback on booking.com is more important than a feedback on your site, on your online reception and the OTA-like system we're developing
In my opinion our customers should choose the second option. Because a feedback on the online reception or on your site is more valuable than a feedback on TA. Tomorrow, in the case we will be able to increase the value of your feedbacks on our network, one will be able to choose the third option.
This is my point of view, with my poor english! I'm very interested about your opinion. And to eventually better analyze some topics that I described in few lines.
So, additional considerations are more than welcome!
Thank you for your posts!