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I've been using Tripit for years to keep track of my travel plans. Then I use TripAdvisor for figuring out what to do in places I"m visiting. Not seeing anything really interesting here, other than it being in one place. But judging by Google Reviews on maps which are significantly worse than Yelp reviews, I doubt their travel advice will be remotely close to TripAdvisors'.

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Tripadvisor is much better in Europe and yelp is better than Tripadvisor in the US in my limited experience.

+1 this - I have been to London recently and Tripadvisor has much more reviews about restaurants/POI than Yelp.

Foursquare is worth checking out (over Yelp or complementary to Yelp) in a lot of US cities too, definitely in SF and NYC.

TripAdvisor is fine for touristy places and the major "must sees" in a lot of cities. Once you get into more specifics than that, I've found the combination of Foursquare + Yelp + Google Maps / Places way more helpful for specific queries. Also the constantly mixed in sponsored posts on TripAdvisor for tour booking companies are something that bothers me.

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