The good folks over at IgoUgo have just completed a revamp of their reviews section, allowing more customized search and display options and adding “Editor’s Pick” and “First Reviewer” features.

Minor details? Sure, you could look at it that way. But every change that gives travelers more options and more control over our own booking destinies helps more of us to get off the moving sidewalk that is, at times, the mainstream travel industry.

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Eva Holland

Eva Holland is a freelance writer, Senior Editor of World Hum and a longtime contributor to the Matador community. She lives in Canada’s Yukon Territory and blogs about Alaska and Yukon travel at Travelers North.

  • Tim Patterson

    igougo is a solid site indeed…trip advisor is sometimes good, though there's a lot of crap to sort through…I also like to use destination specific sites and expat forums for local knowledge – like http://argentinastravel.com for Argentina and http://talesofasia.com for Cambodia.

  • http://www.matadortrips.com Tim Patterson

    igougo is a solid site indeed…trip advisor is sometimes good, though there’s a lot of crap to sort through…I also like to use destination specific sites and expat forums for local knowledge – like http://argentinastravel.com for Argentina and http://talesofasia.com for Cambodia.

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