Trip.com
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Travel application |
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| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Area served | International |
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| Industry | Travel services |
| Services | Social travel planning and business review/rankings |
| Slogan(s) | "Less work. More Fun" |
| Website | trip |
| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | November 1, 2010 |
Trip.com (formerly known as 'Gogobot') is a local discovery and travel research application and website headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Trip.com users can research destinations and places to go, including hotels, restaurants, bars and attractions in more than 60,000 destinations, and its users can share reviews and pictures from their own travel experiences.Forbes has referred to the company as a "social network for travelers."
Founded in 2010, Trip.com is the fifth most visited travel-planning site in the United States.
Trip.com is a travel-planning and local discovery service that is available both on the web, and via iOS and Android applications. It allows users to research hotels, restaurants, and activities at destinations around the world, reading reviews from Trip.com's community of travelers and browsing photos. Trip.com's community is organized into 19 "Tribes" that allow users to see reviews and opinions from people with similar tastes and interests. As part of the planning aspect of the application, Trip.com users can plan out itineraries, organizing them day by day and syncing them to multiple devices.
Registered users can choose to link to their to Facebook and Twitter accounts, but it is not required. Rather than searching for destinations and information, users can choose to post questions in a forum-like format in which other users can then reply and provide specific reviews or recommendations.
In September 2014, Trip.com debuted a feature called "Gogo This Week" which showcases handpicked events happening that week in large destination cities including Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, and London. The application is available online as well as on iOS and Android devices.
Trip.com was founded in 2010 by Ori Zaltzman and Travis Katz. Prior to founding Trip.com, Travis Katz was the senior vice president and managing director for MySpace International, and Ori Zaltzman was the lead architect for Yahoo! BOSS and lead technologist at Yahoo! Answers. Katz came up with the idea for Trip.com while working at MySpace, citing an observation of how long it took to make travel plans while noting that online trip planning lacked "personal relevance."
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