'In the era of #MeToo, this company is not taking violence against women seriously,' the petition reads.
A petition launched by a tourist who was raped while on a guided tour listed on the TripAdvisor website is gathering steam, with tens of thousands of people demanding the travel review website strengthen its user safety policy.
The Guardian recently published a report claiming to have found at least 40 other examples of reviews describing sexual assault, rape and groping committed by staff members of hotels and other businesses listed on the TripAdvisor website. Only four were flagged with a safety notice, the newspaper said.
Brian Hoyt, the senior director of communications for the company, told Newsweek that TripAdvisor had always sought to be an “information portal” where users can see “the good, the bad and the ugly” of all local businesses. He added it “has always been a part of our policy” not to promote individual companies, but rather to list them so users get an unrestricted picture of what is available.
She called on supporters to “join me in demanding that [Tripadvisor] act as a leader within the industry, by taking action to protect its users and demand safety from the businesses it promotes. The company has already bent to public pressure on this issue by implementing a system to warn users about businesses with ‘health, safety, and discrimination issues.’ But the system is proving ineffective and insufficient.
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