Frank Lawton
travellinghappilyalong
Frank Lawton
Am interested in both travelling and travel reviews - especially anything to do with the authenticity of them.
Live in New Zealand and happy to answer questions about travelling here.
Most recent trip was to a road trip around Missippippi/Louisiana in the US. happy to provide advice on routes, places i stayed etc
In terms of travel review sites I offer hotels various services (they pay for) hence my interest in them and what they are all doing. The services include:
1. analysing a competitors reviews if they think they are being inflated (shilled/gamed) so they can complain to the relevent travel site and
2. since for many hotel managers their performance is based in part on how well the hotel improves on sites like TripAdvisor I also analsyse how far "away' the next ranked hotel actually is. ie if ranked say 20th how hard it will be to get to be 19th. (This allows the owner to reward true performance improvement and not that which can arrive simply by changes in the ranking system over time eg as the importance of old bad reviews lessens in the ranking calculation. It also stops a manager being unreasonably criticised by the owner when a ranking decline occurs ( ge drops from 20th to 21st) as it maybe more to do with the way the ranking system does calculations relative to competitors that a 'true' deterioration in performance.