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UK agency tells TripAdvisor not to claim all reviews are by independent, reliable travellers

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By The Associated Press

LONDON - Travel planning website TripAdvisor must stop claiming that all the reviews on its British site were written by independent travellers — and therefore reliable — a U.K. regulator said Wednesday.

The Advertising Standards Authority said the claims on TripAdvisor.co.uk, including "reviews you can trust" and "more than 50 million honest travel reviews and opinions from real travellers", were misleading.

The agency said it was possible that some reviews on the website could easily have been submitted by people who were not real travellers but just trying to influence customers' choices.

TripAdvisor, based in Newton, Massachusetts, claimed it had invested in systems, processes and resources to identify and minimize fraudulent content.

It said the number of fraudulent reviews was negligible, that research showed the average traveller read dozens of reviews before making a booking and tended to discount reviews that were significantly out of line with others.

But the U.K. advertising agency indicated that even the risk of a small number of fraudulent reviews means the website cannot claim they are all trustworthy.

"Because we considered that the claims implied that consumers could be assured that all review content on the TripAdvisor site was genuine, when we understood that might not be the case, we concluded that the claims were misleading," the agency's ruling said.

The ruling came in response to complaints from two hotels which were not identified and KwikChex Ltd., based in Bournemouth, England, which offers services to companies for protecting their reputations.

In a statement on its website, KwikChex said TripAdvisor does have the capability of authenticating reviews but that a "substantial number" of reviews on the site, both positive and negative, are fraudulent.

"It is small businesses that suffer most as they tend to have few reviews and so the impact is much greater," KwikChex said, "although any business with a recent very bad review does suffer, particularly if it is for example a false accusation of something such as food poisoning, bed bugs or criminality."

TripAdvisor was set up by Expedia, Inc., but was spun off as a separate NASDAQ-listed company in December.

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Bed bugs on a box spring.mov – Video

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03-02-2012 23:20 Severe bed bug infestation in Houston, Texas eliminated by ThermaPure Texas and their heat treatment process. Howard Franklin, General Manager is the person who filmed these bugs and it's the worst case many experienced technicians have ever seen. We are the bed bug experts! Bed bug heat treatmets are all we do... we're not just some pest control company doing heat on the side.

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Toronto woman recounts vacation nightmare in Cuba

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A Toronto woman has nothing but sympathy for Canadian travellers who recently returned from a disastrous trip to Cuba.

Sasha Hernandez told CityNews she returned from a birthday vacation to Holguin covered in bed bug bites, and required medical attention that cost her hundreds.

Hernandez and her boyfriend took a Nolitours vacation to Blau Costa Verde beach resort earlier this month. She said bed bugs at the resort are to blame.

The couple flew Air Transat, the same airline where 14 passengers fell ill on a flight from Cuba to Toronto on Friday.

Hernandez didn’t have any problems with the flight. Her problems, she says, started at the hotel.

“On the second night I got my first few bites. I assumed they were mosquito bites [but] they swelled up and burned my skin with water bubbles surrounding the core bite which [had pus],” Hernandez wrote in an email to CityNews.

By the third day, Hernandez needed medical attention. She was charged for her gauze and Band-Aids.

The bites were so bad she couldn’t sleep at night, and she couldn’t sit in the sun during the day.

Finally, she and her boyfriend checked their beds: Hernandez said there were around 25 dead bed bugs on her bed, and five on her boyfriend’s bed.

A maid came to change the bedding, and Hernandez went to the doctor again. She was charged for calamine lotion and an anti-histamine shot.

By the next morning, they were ready to leave. A representative from the hotel offered Hernandez a massage, which she declined because of the numerous bug bites. He then offered her a lobster dinner, which she also declined.

She and her boyfriend returned to Canada on Jan. 12. By the time the flight landed, Hernandez said, her body was so swollen she had to go the hospital immediately.

Once again, she was charged for her medication.

“A lobster is not going to cut it,” Hernandez wrote.

Hernandez said travellers to Cuba need to be extra cautious.

Another Toronto woman, Denise Robertson, says she contracted the Norwalk virus shortly after landing in Holguin Cuba recently.

"It just came on very quickly, vomiting really badly, diarrhea, fever, and they asked me if I would stay in my room and be quarantined so no one else got it," she said.

Despite the bad press, travel expert Robert Townshend doesn't think tourists will stop vacationing in Cuba.

"It seems that the deals and the prices you get to go to Cuba, outweighs the chance of any kind of illness you could get," he said.

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