TripAdvisor Launches Business Travel Center

TripAdvisor has launched a Business Travel Center, a full-service business trip planning resource covering more than 20,000 hotels in more than 750 cities worldwide.

This dedicated home on TripAdvisor.com is a one-stop shop for business trip planning that features a Business Popularity Index that ranks hotels specifically for business travelers, and interactive maps that identify meeting locations and then finds nearby restaurants, attractions, transportation and business services.

For the first time on any travel site, business travelers can now specifically sort reviews written by business travelers about their business trip stays at hotels, and see rankings that display hotels that best cater to business travelers.

Using similar technology as TripAdvisor’s Hotel Popularity Index, the Business Popularity Index ranks hotels worldwide based on the popularity of a given hotel for business travel, as measured by both the quantity and quality of content written about the hotel on TripAdvisor and across the web.

Now, instead of having to read through dozens of reviews to find content written by and for business travelers like them, this new index zeroes in on the reviews business travelers really care about.

The TripAdvisor Business Travel Center’s interactive maps first allow travelers to “map an address” and add their meeting destination. The map tool then automatically shows all nearby hotels, and travelers can then quickly reveal nearby restaurants and attractions in the area.

A huge additional benefit for business travelers, the map also shows nearby business services, including coffee shops, copy and shipping services, convention centers as well as transportation options, such as rail stations and airports.

Travelers can go to a hotel page, pick their trip type and see reviews written by people who have taken the same type of trip they are planning. Additionally, there is a new ratings filter on TripAdvisor that allows travelers to sort and only read reviews with a particular quality rating, from excellent to poor.