TVtrip

TVTrip, an online platform, provides its users with video guides to assist them in locating, reviewing, and rating a range of locations.

TVtrip is [a video guide for hotels](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/07/tvtrip-the-second-video-guide-for-hotels) to launch. Founded by four former managers of Expedia Europe and financially backed by former Expedia CEO, TVtrip broke into the Travel scene with an impressive pedigree. With its most notable feature being videos of hotels and their surroundings, TVtrip also includes reviews from [TripAdvisor](http://crunchbase.com/organization/tripadvisor), maps and nearby hotels and their rates. To book hotels users must navigate to one of its partner sites which include Expedia, Venere and Booking.com TVtrip has [relaunched](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/14/tvtrip-brings-a-fresh-new-look-at-video-guides-for-hotels/) its hotel search engine and now includes over 1500 hotels. (March 2008). TVtrip has 10046 destinations, 45362 hotels, 1278743 reviews, 8854 videos (TVtrip HP, October 2008)