| DALLAS and MUNICH
(August 15, 2011) – ReviewAnalyst
has entered into a strategic partnership with TrustYou,
the market leader in semantic search, to offer hotels and restaurants
unrivaled
international social media reputation management. As one of the first
companies
to introduce online social media monitoring for hotels, ReviewAnalyst
has
further optimized the control hotels and restaurants can have of their
online
identity through the agreement with TrustYou.
TrustYou, the official supplier for the star classification in Switzerland and Germany, was named the “Most Innovative European Travel Company” at EyeForTravel’s Travel Distribution Summit 2011, and won among tight competition at PhoCusWright’s Travel Innovator Summit 2010 with its TrustYou Analytics application. Offering reputation management through a complex semantic review algorithm, TrustYou Analytics aggregates reviews and postings for more than 400,000 hotels, uniquely reporting on the sentiment of reviews. This distinct value-add has attracted customers like Best Western and Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. “Through our shared resources, ReviewAnalyst and TrustYou will offer the industry’s most seamless and advanced online reputation management in more than 10 international languages,” said Mike Wylie, founder of ReviewAnalyst and president of Standing Dog Interactive. “As the social media landscape has diversified, it is our obligation to keep pace with solutions that make social media work harder for our hotel customers. TrustYou is the right global partner to help us tackle this important task.” ReviewAnalyst is used by major chains like Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Omni Hotels & Resorts to monitor and respond to online reviews. Most recently, Hard Rock International tapped ReviewAnalyst for both its hotels and restaurants in 14 countries. “Combined, we will service over 5,000 hotel customers, all of which will benefit from significant enhancements to our user-friendly dashboard like sentiment analysis that allows even greater insight into customers and their motivations,” added Wylie. TrustYou and ReviewAnalyst together monitor all of the world’s top travel review and social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, FourSquare and blogs, for user-generated content pertaining to a particular hotel. By tracking customer interactions over all of the key social media networks, customers receive a comprehensive overview of their hotel’s perception, allowing vigilant companies to seize business opportunities. TrustYou’s sentiment analysis through semantic search will enable hotels to more easily identify positive, neutral or negative guest experiences. Additionally, properties can sort by category, such as room, service, food, or amenities, to understand strengths they can leverage in sales and marketing, or weaknesses that may require attention. “Social media has become everyone’s favorite buzzword and top priority, but true optimization requires the right tools to dig through the information chaos,” said Benjamin Jost, CEO and Founder of TrustYou. “Our collaboration with ReviewAnalyst provides an efficient and integrated solution with the proven scalability and depth to support the multi-lingual requirements of international chains with both technology and in-market presence.” Wylie is a veteran of online hospitality marketing. His venture, Standing Dog Interactive, has provided online marketing to hotels since 2005, before which he managed e-commerce initiatives in senior roles for Wyndham International and Hilton Hotels Corporation.  About
ReviewAnalyst LLC
ReviewAnalyst LLC is an online social media monitoring tool originally developed by Standing Dog Interactive. ReviewAnalyst is a TripAdvisor Authorized Partner, and provides services to more than 2,000 brands, management companies and individual hotels, including Starwood, Marriott, and Hard Rock International. For more information, visit www.reviewanalyst.com. About TrustYou  TrustYou gathers and
semantically structures online reviews, posts, and comments. TrustYou
Analytics
allows hoteliers, destinations, and travel companies to analyze and
react to
the quality and reputation of their hotels. Further, TrustYou
Analytics is
the official supplier for the star
rating agencies in Germany and Switzerland. TrustYou applications and
data
are embedded into the star rating IT
systems of more than 16 countries in Europe. Current customers and
partners
include hundreds of hotels and travel giants such as InterContinental
Hotels, Best Western Hotels, Maritim
Hotels, Worldhotels, Trust International, Micros-Fidelio, HolidayCheck
and many
more. For more information, visit www.trustyou.com. |