http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9...ef=twt_fd_tafd

Oh dear!

So what will happen to the Fodor's Forums?

I hear they will make Bob the destination expert for Thailand, India, Bali and fashion.

I guess they will be full of fake reviews..

Maybe this is why:
http://www.woorank.com/en/www/fodors.com#

i am not sure it will affect our beloved forum sites...

i have sent an inquiry to the editor and editors

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to clear up a few things that were discussed above. We are very excited about our collaboration with TripAdvisor and the expanded hotel reviews it will provide for our site and our guides. The details of this partnership can be seen in the press release linked to above:

"Beginning in Fodor’s 2012 guidebooks and on Fodors.com, TripAdvisor’s hotel reviews will be showcased alongside Fodor’s professional hotel recommendations, providing travelers with a complete hotel snapshot to guide their decision making. Visitors to TripAdvisor’s most popular destination pages will be able to round-out their vacation planning with direct access to Fodors.com, where they’ll find curated vacation recommendations like Fodor’s Choice restaurants and highlights of what to see and do in a destination."

An example of how TripAdvisor reviews on our site can be seen here: http://www.fodors.com/world/north-am...ew-474684.html

This partnership should not affect how the Fodor's or TripAdvisor forums are currently run or structured. We will continue to have separate forums,just like we have separate sites.

If you have any individual questions, please email me at [email protected]

Good grief !!!

Very funny things have been happening on T.A. forums.

This would appear to be the reason.

I'm glad to hear that the Fodors Forums will not be affected.

Great! This place needs some young, fresh blood.

Expedia.com for profit stock company owner of TA

has been trans-muting TA into a true commercial forum

currently looking to spin it off in a new public offering.

Travel alliances are a part of that landscape to increase

shareholder value...

Similar to the GREAT success of Priceline.com(PCLN)

Whose stock performance they are trying to emulate...

Personally miss the good ole days of TA when travelers helped

travelers by sharing experience in good samaritan fashion.

I am glad our fodors forums will (hopefully) remain the same as they are now.

TA may have young fresh blood, but I don't find them nearly as friendly or informative as fodors! Just my opinion.

And a lot of TA's fresh blood comes from very fresh touts and business owners...

I totally agree with Simpson510.

Just as the different forums/boards on Fodors have slightly different peronalities, the same is true with TA. some forums r very good with lots of helpful info from a diverse group. some have an "in crowd" that all kid each other back and forth on the boards, and some not so much. sometimes when I get no or very few comments on Fodors I go to TA and get tremendous help and this is not necessarily just from the DEs. I don't understand the blanket statements about TA as I find it to be very diverse.

Just for an example look at the member's names above. You will see that some post on both forums, some "used" to be destination experts times 4 at Tripadivsor, some or one poster post on all known forums and very few of us only post on 1 forum. Will the forum change - I don't think so but as I've said before Tripadvisor is a very useful forum if you know how to navigate it and eliminate most of fakes reports and posts. We have that at Fodors too, members who have been banned returning under a different name - so obvious but they get through the screening and hence there are numerous "trolls" here as well.

Nothing will change but it will good for the consumer IMO.

Less competition is rarely "good for the consumer" (IMO)

I follow Fodor's forums precisely because they are NOT like TA. The forums here have at least some sense of independence, along with voices I trust after long exposure. At TA I throw salt over both shoulders.
Most of my few contributions to TA have been submitted at the request of the businesses concerned, a situation which I always made clear in the posts. I have rarely found Expedia, however efficiently operated, to be price-competitive. So the potential seems real for this alliance to be a lose-lose proposition.