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Even More User-Gen Content Coming to Travel Websites

September 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM | 0 Comments

Turns out it's not just tourism boards that are hoping to cash in on user-generated content. Concierge.com, a travel website that also hosts content from Condé Nast Traveler, has just added "Member Posts + Reviews," a website section that lets readers contribute, yep, reviews of hotels, restaurants, nightlife, shopping and activities. (Concierge, like Jaunted, is owned by CondéNet.)

It's not the first major travel outlet to embrace user-created content. Budget Travel magazine's website launched My Budget Travel in July--shortly after the magazine published its 10th anniversary issue made up entirely of reader submissions. (Though similar, BT's new web offerings are a bit more social than Concierge's.)

Of course, these aren't the first websites to ask people to contribute. We ask readers for tips, and then there are some others that have been in the user-gen game for what in internet time is ages: You've heard of TripAdvisor, right?

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