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Initial remark[edit]
Needed some editing, but now satisfactory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGG (talk • contribs) 03:11, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
What's the name mean?[edit]
where did the name come from?
And what about "trivago guy" in the TV ads? Wasn't there quite a bit of web chatter about his appearance?Feldercarb (talk) 23:48, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
I think the name is German for "We claim to check over a million hotels even though there are not a million hotels in the entire world." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:A000:C68C:A300:E4DB:D33B:9E3C:8300 (talk) 20:34, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
The article reads like company-sponsored and company-edited advertisment[edit]
A lot of the content is either low quality and/or reads like advertisement coming straight from one of the company's "social media managers". Looking at the article History, others have noticed this before. A shame that Wikipedia continues being limited in its usefulness as long as such self-serving actions by these companies are not being restricted more effectively. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:CA1:7B00:BDE1:9F69:98A0:1E73 (talk) 20:11, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
trivago Wikipedia edits[edit]
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I am writing on behalf of trivago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us/Article_subjects) to request a series of edits and updates to the profile. The legal team at trivago closely reviewed the content and made factual corrections throughout. I've detailed these below. Please let me know if you would consider applying these changes to the page and if so, what the process/timeline looks like. Many thanks for your help. Kthomps89 (talk) 13:50, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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trivago N.V., marketed with lowercase styling as trivago, is leading global hotel search platform focused on reshaping the way travelers search for and compare hotels and alternative accommodation. The American travel company Expedia Group owns a majority of the company's stock. Trivago was the first hotel search engine in Germany.[2] It became one of the fastest growing companies in Germany,[3] with profitability doubling from 2008 to 2012.[4] History The company was founded in Düsseldorf, Germany, in January 2005. Seeing an opportunity in the hotel search space, the founding team developed Germany's first hotel search engine. Shortly after launch, Stephan Stubner decided to pursue another passion of his, becoming a professor (where today he still sits, as rector of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management), but Rolf Schrömgens remains as CEO. Initially, trivago received €1.4 million from investors, including the Samwer brothers,[who?] Florian Heinemann, and Christian Vollmann.[5] In 2010, Insight Venture Partners acquired 27.3% of the equity ownership of trivago for €42.5 million. Expedia acquired 63.0% of the equity ownership in trivago in 2013, purchasing all outstanding equity not held by founders or employees of trivago for €477 million and subscribing for a certain number of newly issued shares. Expedia subsequently increased its shareholdings slightly in the second quarter of 2016 through the purchase of shares held by certain employees who had previously exercised stock options. In December 2012, Expedia, an American travel company, announced that it would acquire a 61.6% stake in Trivago for $632 million.[8][5] The deal was completed in 2013. In December 2014, trivago acquired 100% equity interest in mobile app product and development company Rheinfabrik. After the acquisition, Rheinfabrik remains independent from Trivago in its work. In 2015, Andrej Lehnert[10] and Johannes Thomas (Hotel Sales, Business) joined trivago as part of the management team.[11] In 2015, trivago reported more than US$500 million in revenue,[12] and said its revenue had doubled every year from 2008 to 2015.[4] In August 2015, trivago completed the acquisition of a 52.3% equity interest in base7booking.com Sarl (“base7”), a cloud based property management service provider based in Switzerland. trivago integrated Base7Booking’s property management system which provided access to the company’s workforce and the “know-how” regarding base7’s all-in-one property management system which creates opportunity to enhance trivago’s direct marketing. In July 2015, trivago completed the acquisition of a 61.3% equity interest in myhotelshop GmbH (“myhotelshop”), a marketing manager, for total purchase consideration of €0.6 million consisting of cash and the settlement of pre-existing debt at the closing of the acquisition. The acquisition provides trivago direct relationships with independent hotels through the myhotelshop portal. myhotelshop has since been deconsolidated at the end of 2017 In August 2017, trivago acquired the assets of tripl (winner of ITB's Start-Ups Battle 2016), a machine learning travel start-up from Hamburg. The acquisition enhanced trivago's product with personalization technology which uses both Big Data and a customer-centric approach. In May 2018, trivago announced the acquisition of TripHappy, a US travel startup that leverages artificial intelligence to highlight relevant location and neighborhood information during the hotel search and discovery process. This acquisition follows trivago's continued efforts to improve the traveler search experience by delivering personalized results through technology and product innovation. In April 2016, Trivago reached 1,000 employees and began building a new campus in Düsseldorf.[14] The campus opened in 2018. On December 16, 2016, trivago became publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol TRVG.[15][16][17] At the closing of the offering, Expedia retained 64.7% of voting rights and 59.7% of economic rights in trivago.[18] Operations trivago is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany where the international operations are conducted and 90% of the company's employees work.[5] In 2013, trivago opened new offices in Leipzig and Palma de Mallorca. There are also offices in Amsterdam and Shanghai.[5] Business model Products and features trivago app trivago Hotel Manager Hotel Manager Pro Rate Connect Indices and rankings Trivago Rating Index (tRI) Marketing Work environment Employees New campus Legal issues |
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kthomps89 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Reply 19-AUG-2019[edit]
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In the collapsed section below titled Request edit examples, I have illustrated two: The first shows how the edit request was submitted; the second shows how requests should be submitted in the future.
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Regards, Spintendo 01:26, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
Request edit[edit]
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Hello all,
Thank you in particular to user Spintendo for providing us with additional context around proposed changes. We have uncovered the following errors in the article and have proposed corrected statement and clarifications with citations. Please note that we have a Conflict of Interest since we are writing on behalf of trivago. However, we feel that these edits are necessary to maintain accurate and more exact information on the page. Please let us know if these updated changes are in a better format and if you are able to use these sources to make the edits to the article. Thank you again for your time.
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"In December 2010, Trivago sold a quarter of the company for US$52.86 million to a US investment fund, Insight Venture Partners." Should instead be corrected to: "In 2010, Insight Venture Partners acquired 27.3% of the equity ownership of trivago for €42.5 million." The source to cite these updated numbers can be found in the following Nasdaq SEC filingCite error: There are "In December 2012, Expedia, an American travel company, announced that it would acquire a 61.6% stake in Trivago for $632 million. The deal was completed in 2013." Should instead be corrected to: "Expedia acquired 63.0% of the equity ownership in trivago in 2013, purchasing all outstanding equity not held by founders or employees of trivago for €477 million and subscribing for a certain number of newly issued shares." The source is in the following Nasdaq SEC filingCite error: There are "In December 2014, Trivago acquired mobile app product and development company Rheinfabrik." Should instead be corrected to: "In December 2014, trivago acquired 100% equity interest in mobile app product and development company Rheinfabrik. Source is the following trivago SEC filingCite error: There are "In March 2016, Trivago announced it had acquired 52.3% of Cloud-PMS company Base7booking, after taking majority control of the Switzerland-based company in the third quarter of 2015. Should instead be corrected to: "In August 2015, trivago completed the acquisition of a 52.3% equity interest in base7booking.com Sarl (“base7”), a cloud based property management service provider based in Switzerland." Source is in the following SEC filingCite error: There are We'd also like to propose adding the following new company acquisitions in order to maintain an updated picture of the significance of the company in its industry: "In July 2015, trivago completed the acquisition of a 61.3% equity interest in myhotelshop GmbH (“myhotelshop”)), a marketing manager, for total purchase consideration of €0.6 million consisting of cash and the settlement of pre-existing debt at the closing of the acquisition. The acquisition provides trivago direct relationships with independent hotels through the myhotelshop portal. myhotelshop has since been deconsolidated at the end of 2017." Sources:
SEC filing to note the amount of equity interest acquiredCite error: There are Separate SEC filing noting that myhotelshop deconsolidatedCite error: There are "In August 2017, trivago acquired the assets of tripl (winner of ITB's Start-Ups Battle 2016), a machine learning travel start-up from Hamburg. The acquisition enhanced trivago's product with personalization technology which uses both Big Data and a customer-centric approach." Source:
News article in eTurboNewsCite error: There are "In May 2018, trivago announced the acquisition of TripHappy, a US travel startup that leverages artificial intelligence to highlight relevant location and neighborhood information during the hotel search and discovery process. This acquisition follows trivago's continued efforts to improve the traveler search experience by delivering personalized results through technology and product innovation." Source:
StreetInsiderCite error: There are And here are a few other existing sentences/stats that need updating: "On December 16, 2016, trivago became publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol TRVG. Expedia retains 64.7% of voting rights and 59.7% of economic rights." Suggested change to: "On December 16, 2016, trivago became publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol TRVG. At the closing of the offering, Expedia retained 64.7% of voting rights and 59.7% of economic rights in trivago." Source:
Expedia annual reportCite error: There are "Trivago claims to be the world's largest online hotel search site, comparing rates from over 1 million hotels and more than 250 booking sites worldwide. The site includes over 190 million hotel ratings and 14 million photos, and reports over 120 million visitors per month." Suggested change to: "As of March 31, 2019, trivago offered access to more than 3.0 million hotels and other types of accommodation including over 1.8 million units of alternative accommodation, such as vacation rentals and private apartments, in over 190 countries." Source:
News article from FinanznachrichtenCite error: There are "The tRI aggregates all ratings for destinations listed on Trivago and ranks them between 0 and 100. The index includes criteria such as location, price, food, internet, room and facilities, and is used to create annual Trivago rankings and awards such as the Reputation Ranking, Island Ranking, Ski Ranking, the Top Hotel Awards, and the Best Value Destinations (based on an algorithm combining the tRI with price)." Should be corrected to: "The tRI is a comprehensive and reliable index of hotel ratings. The tRI takes available rating sources from across the web and uses an algorithm to aggregate them, providing a dependable and impartial score." Source:
Article in 4hoteliersCite error: There are References |
Thank you for your time! Pmerchan (talk) 19:00, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Reply 12-SEP-2019[edit]
Unable to implement
- Thank you for providing references with the request. That was much appreciated.
- Unfortunately, your request still cannot be reviewed because the provided references are not formatted correctly.[a] The citation style predominantly used by the Trivago article is Citation Style 1 (CS1). The citation style used in the edit request consists of bare URL's.[b] As I stated in my previous reply, any requested edit of yours which may be implemented will need to resemble the current style already in use in the article – in this case, CS1. (See WP:CITEVAR.) In the extended section below titled Citation style, I have illustrated two examples: one showing how the edit request was submitted, and another showing how requests should be submitted in the future:
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In the example above there are three URL's provided with the claim statements, but these URL's have not been placed using Citation Style 1, which is the style predominantly used by the Trivago article. Using this style, the WikiFormatted text should resemble the following:
In the example above the references have been formatted according to Citation Style 1, which shows the author, the source's name, date, etc., all information which is lost when only the links are provided. As Wikipedia is a volunteer project, edit requests such yours are generally expected to have this formatting done before the request is submitted for review. Notes
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- Kindly resubmit the edit request below this post at your earliest convenience, taking care to ensure that it makes use of CS1. If you have any questions about this formatting please don't hesitate to ask myself or another editor.
- Additionally, if the COI editor receives, or expects to receive, compensation for any contribution they make, they must disclose their employer, client, and affiliation to comply with Wikipedia's terms of use and the policy on paid editing.
Regards, Spintendo 20:51, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, Thank you again to user Spintendo for providing us with instructions around citations for our proposed changes. We are writing again to request the following changes, cited in CS1 (corrected from above). Please note that we have a Conflict of Interest since we are writing on behalf of trivago. However, we feel that these edits are necessary to maintain accurate and more exact information on the page. Please let us know if these updated changes are in a better format and if you are able to use these sources to make the edits to the article. Thank you.
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"In December 2010, Trivago sold a quarter of the company for US$52.86 million to a US investment fund, Insight Venture Partners." Should instead be corrected to: "In 2010, Insight Venture Partners acquired 27.3% of the equity ownership of trivago for €42.5 million[1]" “In December 2012, Expedia, an American travel company, announced that it would acquire a 61.6% stake in Trivago for $632 million. The deal was completed in 2013.” Should instead be corrected to: “Expedia acquired 63.0% of the equity ownership in trivago in 2013, purchasing all outstanding equity not held by founders or employees of trivago for €477 million and subscribing for a certain number of newly issued shares. [2]” “In December 2014, Trivago acquired mobile app product and development company Rheinfabrik.” Should instead be corrected to: “In December 2014, trivago acquired 100% equity interest in mobile app product and development company Rheinfabrik. [3] “In March 2016, Trivago announced it had acquired 52.3% of Cloud-PMS company Base7booking, after taking majority control of the Switzerland-based company in the third quarter of 2015. Should instead be corrected to: “In August 2015, trivago completed the acquisition of a 52.3% equity interest in base7booking.com Sarl (“base7”), a cloud based property management service provider based in Switzerland. [4]” We’d also like to propose adding the following new company acquisitions in order to maintain an updated picture of the significance of the company in its industry: “In July 2015, trivago completed the acquisition of a 61.3% equity interest in myhotelshop GmbH (“myhotelshop”)) [5]”, a marketing manager, for total purchase consideration of €0.6 million consisting of cash and the settlement of pre-existing debt at the closing of the acquisition. The acquisition provides trivago direct relationships with independent hotels through the myhotelshop portal. Myhotelshop has since been deconsolidated at the end of 2017. [6]” “In August 2017, trivago acquired the assets of tripl (winner of ITB’s Start-Ups Battle 2016), a machine learning travel start-up from Hamburg. The acquisition enhanced trivago’s product with personalization technology which uses both Big Data and a customer-centric approach. [7]” "In May 2018, trivago announced the acquisition of TripHappy, a US travel startup that leverages artificial intelligence to highlight relevant location and neighborhood information during the hotel search and discovery process. This acquisition follows trivago's continued efforts to improve the traveler search experience by delivering personalized results through technology and product innovation. [8] "On December 16, 2016, trivago became publicly traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol TRVG. Expedia retains 64.7% of voting rights and 59.7% of economic rights." Suggested change to: "On December 16, 2016, trivago became publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol TRVG. At the closing of the offering, Expedia retained 64.7% of voting rights and 59.7% of economic rights in trivago.[9]" "Trivago claims to be the world's largest online hotel search site, comparing rates from over 1 million hotels and more than 250 booking sites worldwide. The site includes over 190 million hotel ratings and 14 million photos, and reports over 120 million visitors per month." Suggested change to: "As of March 31, 2019, trivago offered access to more than 3.0 million hotels and other types of accommodation including over 1.8 million units of alternative accommodation, such as vacation rentals and private apartments, in over 190 countries. [10]" "The tRI aggregates all ratings for destinations listed on Trivago and ranks them between 0 and 100. The index includes criteria such as location, price, food, internet, room and facilities, and is used to create annual Trivago rankings and awards such as the Reputation Ranking, Island Ranking, Ski Ranking, the Top Hotel Awards, and the Best Value Destinations (based on an algorithm combining the tRI with price)." Should be corrected to: "The tRI is a comprehensive and reliable index of hotel ratings. The tRI takes available rating sources from across the web and uses an algorithm to aggregate them, providing a dependable and impartial score. [11]" References
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Agrund2 (talk) 21:09, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Partially implemented I've removed the inaccurate percentages from the prose. The other information which is requested to be changed cannot be omitted because it is referenced. If the information no longer holds true, then the claim should be added to by stating that a different system/operation/way of doing things occurs (and as of when should be stated). Regards, Spintendo 19:22, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
ownership confusion[edit]
The information box on the right says a it is publicly trader firm True), and then later says it is owned by Expedia.
Expedia owns a stake, as explained in the main body, but it does not own the entire firm.
Suggestion: Remove Ownership: Expedia from the right side panel.
68.174.144.191 (talk) 14:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, Spintendo, for your help on the edits we have suggested. We were hoping to correct two remaining inaccuracies on the page. Please note that we have a Conflict of Interest and appreciate your help maintaining the integrity and accuracy of the page. 1. We would like to request the edit to the following text, as the current reference listed does not match the value of the sale in USD. We have a link with the correct reference in euros.
"In December 2010, Trivago sold a quarter of the company for US$52.86 million to a US investment fund, Insight Venture Partners."
Should instead be corrected to: "In 2010, Insight Venture Partners acquired a percentage equity ownership of trivago for €42.5 million [1]" 2. We would like to request the edit to the following text which includes outdated site numbers. We have referenced the correct text and included “as of when” to reflect when these number changes.
“Trivago claims to be the world's largest online hotel search site, comparing rates from over 1 million hotels and more than 250 booking sites worldwide. The site includes over 190 million hotel ratings and 14 million photos, and reports over 120 million visitors per month."
Suggested change to: "As of March 31, 2019, trivago offered access to more than 3.0 million hotels and other types of accommodation including over 1.8 million units of alternative accommodation, such as vacation rentals and private apartments, in over 190 countries. [2]"
Agrund2 (talk) 19:41, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
References
- ^ "trivago N.V." 2018. p. 37.
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