Tagged: user-generated-content

Advocacy Group Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Customers Penalized for Writing Negative Review

A few days ago, Arthur Frommer wrote about an incident in which a Utah couple complained their credit was ruined in an act of revenge by a business over a negative online review…

It Now Seems More Probable Than Ever That Some of Those "User-Generated" Reviews Were Written by Hotel Executives, Lauding their Own Properties and Condemning Their Competitors

A news item richocheting around the Internet tells of a top p.r. executive of Accor Hotels (world's largest hotel chain) who has admitted to writing 100 fake reviews for…

How, When, and Why, I Learned Not to Rely on "User-Generated Content" in Publishing My Travel Guides

The letter seemed to be legitimate.  It was hand-written with great sincerity by a reader of "Europe on $5 a Day" who was eager to pass on a secret of smart travel to his fellow…

4 New Places in the U.S. to Try Your Luck

These days, it seems you can't travel more than 100 miles in any given direction without running into a casino or some manner of gambling facility. A la Las Vegas, these days,…

Slope Specs: Telluride, Jewel of Southwestern Colorado

Tucked at the head of a dead-end canyon in the snow-loaded San Juan Mountains is Telluride. It's a town (tel. 888/605-2578; www.visittelluride.com), a ski area (tel. 970/728-6900;…