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“Despite being in beta stage, confined to certain areas of the U.S., and without a full basket of direct supply, it is still something to get excited about,” Bloomberg quoted Clarke as saying about Tripadvisor Plus that month.Īt the time, big hotel chains were balking at participating in the program, which displayed substantial rate discounts to subscribers and, importantly, sometimes to non-subscribers prior to booking, and clashed with industrywide rate parity rules. In February 2021, Bernstein’s Richard Clarke raised his price target on Tripadvisor stock, in part because of the subscription plan, to $45, from $40, and rated the shares “outperform.” Financial analysts jumped on the Tripadvisor Plus bandwagon, and bought into the boasts. Subscriptions were - and still are - deservedly hot in travel and beyond. But 10 million sign-ups times $100, and obviously, the math works pretty nicely in a recurring subscription revenue.”

“And if - I have to say this carefully - but if it’s only 10 million that sign up for Tripadvisor Plus, that’s still less than 1 percent of our annual traffic. “You could think of it (Tripadvisor) as we serve 1 billion travelers a year,” Kaufer told financial analysts in February 2021. It was only a little more than a year ago that Tripadvisor co-founder and CEO Steve Kaufer touted the company’s fledgling - and since all but obliterated - Tripadvisor Plus subscription membership program for discounted hotel rooms as potentially a billion dollar business.

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