Trivop.com is an online hotel review portal billed as the as the first videoguide for hotels.
The site comes from Paris, France based VideoAgency and made the final five at the European Startup 2.0 conference in May. Although it didn’t win we’ve had a number of people contact TechCrunch telling us that Trivop was a site worth taking a deeper look at.
We all know what it’s like booking a hotel online. Imagery always shows the best side of the hotel but you often find yourself disappointed because the product isn’t exactly like the description or pictures presented at the booking point.
At its core, Trivop.com allows consumers to start their hotel search by watching hotel videos, giving them richer data that can be used in making an educated choice when deciding upon a hotel to stay in.
The layout is pure mashup. Google Maps bis used as a base from which to add hotel or user submitted video, with hotel reviews pulled from TripAdvisor. Users can explore the hotels’ surroundings, public facilities and all bedroom categories.
Trivop has launched covering Paris with plans to expand coverage across Europe later this year.
It’s a clever idea. Mashing video with hotel review data and maps really does provide a useful service that potentially has broad appeal to travellers. I’ve booked hotels online before only to arrive and discover that they’re only marginally better than a hovel so it naturally has personal appeal as well. Definitely a site to watch in the next 12 months as they expand to cover more cities. With such a simple yet clever idea, Trivop.com is a site bound to be copied as well.
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Hey Grat website I love it! Hope they will get more towns soon. It’s a great innovation in the travel industry.
Excellent idea. Hope the videos can not be removed/altered by the hotel staff.
Trivop.com is a beautiful site!
This website rocks! it’s clearly a simple idea as GOOG and it’s really, really smart
I guess you wouldn’t have to /
– get a video of every hotel / but more – just every setup ….
I.E. – Most La-quinta are setup within 20 configs
-Rbowles
I don’t see why this is innovative. I can already find hotel videos for tens of thousands of hotels outside of Paris (in places where I really want to go like Vegas) on Expedia, Travelocity, SideStep, Orbitz…
Actually, the hotel video industry predates Beta and VHS. Remember videodiscs? People in the hotel industry used to lug those around to show off properties. I wrote an article about this for Streaming Media back in 2001.
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Maybe you were lucky to see a full video… I didn’t succed due to a very bad streeming. And the quality of the video is very poor, looks like it has been taken by a mobile phone. But the concept is interesting.
Why doing so many accelerations in the videos ? I think I will get a headache !
Love the video mashup and the incorporation of the TripAdvisor reviews. Very cool.
Very cool website. It’s clearly simple and efficient!
Hmmm… cool… I`d like video most of all. It`s very helpfull to travellers
How is it possible that such a website didn’t exist before ?
We’ve been covering Fort Lauderdale, Florida since 2000.
http://www.cityview.com
Is there a site that lets people submit their own videos of hotels they have been to?
Dear Techcrunch,
My name is Cristina and I work for Trivop. I saw that you wrote about us on your blog! It is always nice to see what people say about us. Thank you for your comments.
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Thanks again for your interest and comments about Trivop.
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Cristina