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TripAdvisor Mission: Help people around the world plan and have the perfect trip. TripAdvisor® Media Network, operated by TripAdvisor, LLC, attracts more than 36 million monthly visitors* across 15 popular travel brands: TripAdvisor®, www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.bookingbuddy.com, www.cruisecritic.com, www.familyvacationcritic.com, www.flipkey.com, www.frequentflier.com, www.holidaywatchdog.com, www.independenttraveler.com, www.onetime.com, www.seatguru.com, www.smartertravel.com, www.travel-library.com, www.travelpod.com and www.virtualtourist.com

TripAdvisor-branded sites alone make up the most popular and largest travel community in the world, with more than 25 million unique monthly visitors, 11 million+ registered members and more than 30 million reviews and opinions

TripAdvisor.com features:

More than 30 million honest travel reviews and opinions from real travelers around the world
1+ million businesses
70,000+ cities
450,000 hotels
90,000+ attractions
560,000+ restaurants
2,000,000+ candid traveler hotel photos covering 100,000+ hotels
Two-thirds of topics posted in the TripAdvisor forums are replied to within 24 hours

TripAdvisor provides easy access worldwide to leading online travel agencies including Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity and hotels.com

TripAdvisor Media Network offers travel suppliers effective graphical advertising and cost-per-click marketing platforms.

TripAdvisor Media Network employed approximately 530 people as of August 2009

Business Partners

Expedia	Priceline
hotels.com	Venere
Orbitz	Opodo
American Airlines	TUI
Hotwire.com	Lastminute.com
Cendant	Accor
Sabre	Ebookers
British Airways	Delta
Continental Travelocity

TripAdvisor.com Key Features

TripAdvisor Flight Search with Fees Estimator – Offers travelers the largest inventory of flights with the best deals available and a first-of-its-kind fees estimator that helps travelers understand the true cost of a flight in a single display. Fees estimator calculates and compares the entire cost of a domestic flight, including ticket price, fees for checked luggage and even anticipated in-flight food service and entertainment, based on the traveler’s needs. TripAdvisor’s ground-breaking flight search also features SeatGuru airline seating maps with user reviews, real-time seat availability charts, and TripTip! Alerts when business-class or first-class tickets are available for a price close to the coach fare.
Top Values Index – An easy way to sort the most popular hotels around the world to quickly find great values today. Enabling travelers to get the most bang for their buck, Top Values are 31 percent less expensive than all hotels listed on TripAdvisor and are updated daily to reflect the most recent prices and quality ratings.
Restaurants – Featuring more than 551,000 restaurants in 24,000 cities with more than 2 million ratings and reviews as well as maps, filters and easy links to make reservations. Travelers can sort and search restaurants by price, cuisine type and “recommended for” to find their preferred eatery.
Gas Tank Getaways – Provides travelers with vacation destination options that are a tank of gas or less away from home. Based on the travelers’ starting location and how much gas they want to use for their trip, the tool then provides up to five destination suggestions within the chosen fuel range, showing the places that are the most highly rated by TripAdvisor travelers.
Quick Guides – Gives travelers a quick downloadable and printable guide that lists the top-rated hotels, restaurants and attractions for 13,000+ of the most popular destinations in the world.
Traveler Network – Helps you quickly uncover a network of travel experts you already know so you can base your travel decisions on the opinions of those who share your travel tastes. TripAdvisor’s traveler network is designed to save you time by helping you prioritize from among TripAdvisor’s more than 30 million reviews and opinions based on relevance to you.
Video – Makes it easy for you to post vacation videos and for travel marketers to showcase their properties by featuring their videos on TripAdvisor for free. Videos can be as long as 10 minutes each, and can be uploaded in AVI, Quicktime, Windows Media or MPEG4 formats.
Content Distribution– Allows hoteliers, restaurateurs and other travel businesses to instantly publish TripAdvisor reviews on their own web sites. Go to www.tripadvisor.com/Owners to get all the tools to manage your listing and promote your property.
Saves – Personalizes trip planning by allowing travelers to save hotel, restaurant, or attraction reviews to personal “My Trips” folders. Travelers can customize and expand their plans by adding maps, photos, their own notes and travel plan details.
Maps – Makes finding the perfect hotel, at the right price, in exactly the right location, incredibly simple. TripAdvisor maps mashup combines hotel popularity, price and availability with a dynamic mapping tool.
Inside Pages – Allows millions of travelers to view, contribute to and edit the freshest travel “guidebooks” available on more than 33,000 destinations worldwide, using wiki functionality.
goLists – Lets travelers publish and reference lists on everything travel.
Advanced Hotel Selection Tool – Enables travelers to easily view a destination’s most popular hotels by price, neighborhood and star class.
Candid Photos – Gives a “behind-the-scenes” view of hotels around the world and lets you contribute your own snapshots.
Hotel Popularity Index – Dynamically ranks hotels worldwide based on the popularity of a given hotel, as measured by both the quantity and quality of content written about the hotel on TripAdvisor and across the Web.
Check Rates – Compares hotel pricing and availability across multiple vendor commerce sites with one click.
TripWatch – Offers customized e-mail alerts on the specific hotels, attractions and cities requested by the traveler, in the first personalized, time-sensitive e-mail newsletter for trip planners.
Weekend Getaway Guides – Personalizes travel research in a free, weekly e-mail guide based on a person’s specific zip code, giving subscribers suggestions for weekend getaways within an easy drive of their hometown.

Third-party Social Networking Applications

TripAdvisor has extended its brand exposure to millions of people through three applications on popular third-party social networking sites, including Facebook and MySpace:

Cities I’ve Visited, an interactive map that allows travelers to pin where they’ve been and where they’re going next and share it with their friends. It has more than 10 million users and has consistently been Facebook’s #1 travel application since its launch in June 2007.

Local Picks, a restaurant review application that launched late in 2007, has attracted nearly 2 million restaurant ratings.

TravelPod’s Traveler IQ Challenge, which determines traveler’s knowledge of geography with a timed test, has been played by more than 2.5 million people since June 2007.

Management Team

Stephen Kaufer, chief executive officer and founder
Christine Petersen, chief marketing officer
Marc Charron, managing director, Europe
Andy Gelfond, vice president, engineering
Robin Ingle, senior vice president, advertising sales
Eric Rosenzweig, senior vice president, strategic development and sales
Bryan Saltzburg, general manager, new initiatives
Tyler Young, vice president, finance and administration
David Morris, group corporate counsel

U.S. Headquarters

141 Needham Street, Newton, MA 02464

617-670-6300
www.tripadvisor.com

Corporate Structure

TripAdvisor Media Network, operated by TripAdvisor, LLC, is part of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE).

*source: comScore Media Metrix, July 2009

Contact:

prteam@tripadvisor.com