U.S. News & World Report Cites "The HotelShark Effect"

The new issue of U.S. News & World Report calls the phenomena of hotels upgrading in response to online critiques "the HotelShark effect," after the maverick travel website.

PALO ALTO, CALIF. (PRWEB) May 12, 2003 - The new issue of U.S. News & World Report calls the phenomena of hotels upgrading in response to online critiques "the HotelShark effect," after the maverick travel website.

The term appears in the article "Reservations About a Room" in the issue dated May 19, which is on newsstands today. The online version of the article is available at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030519/misc/19tryitout.div.htm .

The article also notes that HotelShark has "been upgraded to help in the hunt for the perfect hotel," noting that it "has tripled the number of reviews over the past year." HotelShark is available at http://www.hotelshark.com .

Neither HotelShark nor its parent company SharkPage, Inc. is affiliated with U.S. News & World Report.

About HotelShark

HotelShark is the online hotel resource. Founded in March 2001, HotelShark is available free of charge on the Internet at http://www.hotelshark.com. HotelShark is owned by SharkPage, Inc., a privately held corporation based in Palo Alto, California. HotelShark and SharkPage are trademarks of SharkPage, Inc. Further press information on HotelShark is available at http://www.hotelshark.com/media.htm .

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