Kimberly Pierceall
Palm Springs scores big on TripAdvisor.com
Admittedly, I didn't think much of the e-mail I got from a local Palm Springs tourist attraction excited that they landed in the top ten for attractions in the United States and in California on TripAdvisor.com.
I had gotten these e-mails before from hotels and attractions about various travel web site ranking and it usually turned out to be some sort of paid advertising. But then I checked TripAdvisor.com and discovered three of the top ten most popular U.S. hotels based on traveler reviews and rankings were from Palm Springs (the Desert Riviera Hotel, Old Ranch Inn, El Morocco Inn and Spa) and the city's travel company Elite Land Tours which takes tourist-filled Hummers through Joshua Tree National Park ranked number ten in the U.S. and number one in California.
Doing a quick review of the reviews didn't reveal any overly corporate sounding PR posts to puff up the properties or attractions. Most sounded like legitimately real people and real travelers, something TripAdvisor.com, a subsidiary of Expedia, espouses.
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