Week 9

 

Trip Advisor Top 25 Hotels v Trivago Gold Standard Hotels

http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/TravelersChoice-Hotels-g1
http://www.cntraveller.com/awards/the-gold-list/gold-standard-hotels-2014/viewall

I found Trip Advisors form of review very short and simple. They were all displayed as direct quotes from previous guests at the hotels, and were more an expression of the traveller’s feelings towards their stay at the hotel, rather than a professional prospective.

The Trivago reviews I felt were much more thorough and informative. They were very specific and contained facts and figures and a background that gave you insight to each of the establishments.

While both these sets of reviews were aimed at traveller’s, I felt that Trivago was aimed towards a more high end market with its writing style in a more formal manner than that of Trip Advisor. Trip Advisor had simply selected the best feedback from guests, where as Trivago had a professional review for each hotel.

Both of these sets of reviews, really made me want to go on a holiday escape! However I did feel that the more appealing to the audience was the style and format of Trivago.

 Review a peer’s storify

I reviewed Sarah Barnhams article on the Gladstone Show.

https://storify.com/barnham_sarah/there-was-something-for-everyone-at-the-gladstone

I felt Sarah did a really good job of the content in this story. She made it appeal to a diverse crowd by including a variety of stalls and activities that were available at the show, to grab the interest of the majority of readers.

I think she could have used a stronger Introduction. It was attention grabbing but maybe some of the points she used to finish the story could have been used in the introduction such as when, where, why, who and how. They were the only things I would swap around with the structure.

The use of a variety of tweets were great as they each had a separate item and included things like the price of an activity so the audience could see what the event costs entailed. Maybe the inclusion of a few Tweets or Facebook posts from someone else at the show could have supported the story even more.

Over all I found this story was easy to read and I didn’t get bored so that to me is a good start! It wasn’t overloaded with irrelevant information. It was fast and to the point but with all the right elements included in the story.

Quiz 9 reflections

This quiz was tricky, tricky, tricky! First time round I shamefully got 6/10! And it was on the questions with the same words but different spelling. They get me all the time those ones. The moments you are writing an assignment and you say to whoever is near you ‘Hey, how do you spell...?’ because even as an adult you get confused! I see my son’s spelling tests each week and I am so glad I am not in school anymore because now I have spell check and learnt from many errors over and over how to spell certain words! And at least spell check underlines words in red just like a teacher in school. Tricky this week yes, but also yukky!