Stepping off the beaten path with TripAdvisor and GoNOMAD

Now in its tenth year, Massachusetts-based travel websites GoNOMAD.com has been publishing offbeat and alternative destination guides, feature stories and photo galleries about unique places to visit and enjoy around the world for ten years.

As part of a new partnership with travel review leader TripAdvisor – which offers more than 30 million hotel reviews and thousands of pages of information on restaurants, shopping, attractions and of course, hotels – GoNOMAD.com will now offer relevant and updated hotel reviews to its visitors.

Bringing mainstream tools to alternative travel

GoNOMAD defines alternative travel as moving beyond passive sightseeing; engaging travelers with the people, culture and environment of a destination. It is travel that brings travelers into close contact with communities and destinations, and returns them home changed by their experience: enlightened, challenged, rewarded.

With great emphasis on sustainable and responsible tourism, alternative travelers are concerned about the environments and cultures of the destinations they visit, and want to help preserve and conserve those resources for the resident communities and future travelers.

Last month, the pair launched a new website called http://gonomad.tripadvisor.com which provides the full range of hotel reviews to any GoNOMAD reader.

Since GoNOMAD provides the ideas of where to go, this new TripAdvisor site provides the next step….finding the perfect hotel, based on thousands of actual hotel guest’s own reviews.

TripAdvisor Media Group operates 14 popular travel brands including TripAdvisor, Virtual Tourist, Cruise Critic, Seat Guru, TravelPod, Airfare Watchdog, Booking Buddy, FlipKey, Holiday Watchdog, Independent Traveler, Onetime, Smarter Travel, Frequent Flier, and Travel Library. TripAdvisor is owned by Expedia, the world’s largest online travel booking site.

“We’ve always been the place to go to discover a new destination, but TripAdvisor is the best source for the more detailed information and reviews about hotels and attractions,” said Max Hartshorne, Editor of GoNOMAD.com. “Now our readers can click through to find relevant hotel reviews after they’ve decided where to go.”

For more information, visit http://gonomad.tripadvisor.com.