Trip101 Local Expert: Guidelines & Content Policy

Local Expert Guidelines

As our local expert, you can:

1. Endorse the article
2. Add Tips
   1. Add text: mostly positive & useful tips
   2. Upload photos: clear & attractive photos
   3. Format the text
3. Email contentsupport@trip101.com for outright negative feedback for any listing that is featured on our article. See Content Policy below for more details.

Endorse:

Click on ‘Endorse’ button to vouch for the existing contents of the article, in capacity of a local expert.

Once you ‘Endorse’ the article, your profile will get added alongside the writer’s.

It is not mandatory to ‘Endorse’ the article.

Add Tips:

You’ll find the ‘Add Tip’ button below each and every listing for your city articles.

Note: You need not add a tip for every listing, only the ones that you can add value as a local resident.

Clicking on ‘Add Tip’ will open up an editable box that allows you to add, as well as edit, your text. You can select your text to format.

Add Photo:

Upload your original photos, using this button. Maximum photos per listing is 3.

Fill the mandatory fields to upload the photo.

Some important notes:

1. You’ll only be able to view and access the local expert functions for the published articles for your city. These buttons will not be visible or accessible for other articles.
2. Due to compatibility issues, some of our older articles do not support the ‘local expert’ function. For these, you’ll see message flash that says ‘Adding tips and endorsing is not supported for this article’. This means, even if it’s an article for your city, it’s not available for you to endorse and add tips and photos.

Content Policy

Just by adding useful and relevant local tips and photos, you’re eligible for our amazing cashback benefits through some of Trip101’s top partners, including Booking.com, Klook, Viator, among others. By inviting you to join our pioneer community, we trust that you will provide high-quality content and photos that will be useful for our global readers.

We expect your content to be:

• Original and unique: Your text and photos should be completely original that reflect your own thoughts and should not be plagiarised from any other source.
• High quality: Both text and photos should be at par with Trip101 standards. Please make sure your text is grammatically correct. The photos should be clear and attractive, preferably in color (not black/white or heavily filtered).
• Factually true: Please ensure your content is factually correct, and does not depict a false image to mislead the readers.
• Appropriate: Please make your content - both text and photos - appropriate. Do not use inappropriate words or local slangs in your text, or upload photos that contain inappropriate content.

What kind of tips are considered ‘useful’?

• Specific facts, with names and directions, and includes your personal experience
• Helpful tips that prepares the traveller for cultural protocols, language, and regional customs, if any
• Information that aids differently-abled, families travelling with infants and small children, or elderly

Avoid:

• Outright negative remarks that dissuades a reader from visiting the attraction altogether
• Vague or generic comments that don’t add much value
• Content that’s already reflected in the description provided by our curator

For any negative comments, email contentsupport@trip101.com with a request to remove a listing on account of:

1. Bad local reviews, and should not be listed in our articles
2. Not worth visiting, with reasons
3. Permanent closed, as verified by your local knowledge
4. Any other cause, with your reasons

Disclaimers:

Trip101 reserves the right to monitor and remove any content (text and photos) as they deem fit.
Trip101 reserves the right to end all collaborations if you spam the articles with irrelevant and inappropriate content.