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You can also try asking for advice from fellow travelers in the Travel Forums. Just navigate to the destination of your choice and read questions from other travelers or ask your own.

TripAdvisor is not a travel agency, so we don't try to sell you specific hotels. Instead, TripAdvisor uses millions of reviews from travelers like you to rank the thousands of hotels in our database. To determine the best accommodation for you, check out your destination's hotels page, featuring our proprietary Popularity Index. Or you look at all the hotels in an area by using our interactive hotel maps. Search for your destination now or consult other travelers in the Travel Forums.

Looking for the closest hotel to your conference or just want to stay close to the action? Enter your destination on our interactive hotel maps and find out exactly where you'll be and how other properties in the area compare in ranking and in price.

Use My Trips to save any review, forum post or goList that you find helpful in your trip planning. Simply click on the button next to the item you're interested in, select a folder to file it under and you're done! Learn more by visiting our My Trips FAQ. Please note that you need a TripAdvisor account to access your saved items again, so be sure to sign in or sign up.

TripAdvisor is a travel research site, not a booking agency. We can't help you make or cancel travel reservations, and we never ask for your credit card information. However, if you're interested in booking a property that you've read about on TripAdvisor, it can be as simple as clicking on the button or link next to a hotel name to compare prices and book from our partners. If you want help planning your trip, check out our Travel Forums to consult fellow travelers.

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• Save hotels, attractions, reviews and more using My Trips. Customize and organize your trip, then print it and take it with you.
• Tell your stories. Share your vacation reviews and local insights on our Inside Pages.
• Join our community of nearly 5 million members. Connect with other travelers in our forums or by asking questions one-on-one.
• Stay in the loop: Get weekly deals, reviews and news on any destination you choose from our TripWatch newsletter or monthly updates on what's new at TripAdvisor from our Member Update newsletter (optional).

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The monthly Member Update keeps you informed about the latest TripAdvisor resources to help you plan great trips.

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Your public profile is how other TripAdvisor members get to know you: where you've been, what you've reviewed, where you want to go next, what compliments other TripAdvisor members have written about you. You can select the information that you want displayed on your public profile by going to your Member Profile.

Invite your friends and family to join you on TripAdvisor so that you can share your experiences (reviews, photos, videos and more!) on TripAdvisor and get travel advice from the people you trust the most. You can invite people by scanning your address book or manually entering their e-mail addresses. Add other TripAdvisor members to your list of friends to see their submissions about places you want to travel.

Whether it's picking a hotel, finding fine dining or deciding which activities to take on, you can use TripAdvisor's travel reviews to compare and contrast the experiences of travelers who have been there. Visit our FAQ or write a review of your own! Just be sure to check out our guidelines first.

Business representatives who wish to challenge reviews written by TripAdvisor members should start by reading our Owner FAQ and writing a management response. Alternatively, you can contact the Hotel Relations Team.

Whether you have photos from your most memorable vacation or the trip you would rather forget, sharing your photos helps other TripAdvisor members benefit from your travel experiences. Upload photos alone or add photos when you write a review. Photos will usually be published to your public profile within a day or two.

Get a sneak peek of what you might see on your next trip with our traveler videos of hotels, attractions and destinations around the world. Once you're back from your trip, upload and share your own videos with your friends, family and fellow TripAdvisor members by directing them to your public profile.

Looking to talk to other travelers familiar with your destination? If so, get answers to your travel questions in the Travel Forums, where you may encounter natives, Local Experts and other travelers who have been there. Get started by entering some key terms (for example, "snorkeling in Cancun") into the Forums search box to see if your question has already been answered. Check out our Forums FAQ and guidelines prior to posting.

Based on TripAdvisor's belief that the best travel information comes from real travelers, the Inside Pages are live travel guides written by travelers like you! They contain information that is:

• Relevant: Transportation, things to do, dining out and more
• Real-time: Created and updated all the time by real travelers
• Collective wisdom: Insights from our millions of travelers
• Current: Better than an outdated guidebook!

Get started by reading or contributing to the Inside Pages or check out our Help and FAQ page for more details about how the Inside Pages work.

TripAdvisor's goLists allow you to create compilations of places and activities around your chosen theme to serve as recommendations to other members. You can find information on how to make a goList in our interactive tutorial.

While most basic travel questions are better answered by the collective wisdom of our members on the TripAdvisor Travel Forums, TripAdvisor's private messaging feature allows members to connect one-on-one to ask more specific questions and share travel advice. The answers to most questions about this service can be found in our FAQ.

Want to keep track of all the cities you’ve visited? Create your very own Travel Map

Three options are available for pinning destinations to your map:

• Use the search field above the map to "Add a new location by city name," then click "add."
• Peruse the list of popular destinations in the right-hand column and click checkboxes next to the city names.
• Zoom in on the map to find and pin places visited.

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With Local Picks, you can quickly and easily rate the places where you've eaten and get helpful tips from other Facebook users. You can also share personalized recommendations with your friends and other people in your network.

Facebook is a social networking website that connects friends, family, and co-workers. To sign up for a Facebook account and get Local Picks, please visit http://apps.facebook.com/localpicks.

Use My Trips to save any review, forum post or goList that you find helpful in your trip planning. Simply click on the button next to the item you're interested in, select or create a folder to file it away and you're done! You can find your saved items in the My Trips section of your Member Profile, where you can e-mail your itinerary or print it and take it to go!

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TripAdvisor offers an open forum for members to share their travel-related experiences, but we want businesses to have their say as well. Business representatives of hotels, restaurants and attractions listed on TripAdvisor can respond to user reviews about their establishments by using our management response feature. Please read our guidelines before submitting.

If you feel that a published review does not meet our user review guidelines, please feel free to contact our Hotel Relations Team by following the link below.

Comments on the Travel Forums in violation of our guidelines can be reported by clicking on the "Report Inappropriate Post" links found next to individual posts; however, business representatives are encouraged to reply to posts prior to doing so. Please read our forums posting guidelines prior to submission.

Business representatives for hotels, restaurants and attractions listed on TripAdvisor can respond to user reviews about their establishment via our management response feature.

If you've found a post on our Travel Forums that you would like to respond to, simply click on the button shown with the topic post to submit your response.