Its never a bad thing when we come across pleasant news about South Africa cause everybody wants to feel good about the country they reside in.
South Africa is performing well on TripAdvisor – one of the world’s top sources of independent travel reviews.
TripAdvisor has about 42 million unique users a month.
In 2009 TripAdvisor had some 1.4 million hits on South Africa a month. This year the figure has risen to 1.7 million.
Apart from South Africans reading reviews on local destinations, most of the interest comes from Britain, America, Germany, Australia, The Netherlands, Italy and, increasingly, China.
Prospective travellers enjoy reading the comments of other travellers, as these represent fresh content and not mere marketing material.
Most of the feedback on TripAdvisor, says Egan, is positive. Complaints are usually about dirty hotel rooms or poor service.
Crime is a subject that crops up on TripAdvisor’s expert discussion forums.
In an opinion poll British consumers indicated that 8% paid heed to comments on Twitter, 14% to those on Facebook and 40% to online reviews of destinations.
Crime exists everywhere so I'm not really concerned with that but what I am concerned with is the fact that people are rating our country as something to write home about.
BCM
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