Holiday Watchdog bought by TripAdvisor

Travel news is always interesting to me, seeing as I'm always keen to fit in travel writing when the opportunities present themselves.

I use HolidayWatchdog a lot to check out package tour hotels (it has saved me from a Faulty Towers experience on many occasions!), as well as TripAdvisor for my independent travel, so I was intrigued to read on Travolution that TripAdvisor have bought HolidayWatchdog.

What is most interesting is that Chris Clarkson (though HolidayWatchdog was also owned by Chris Brown) started out as a simple affiliate marketing blogger - knowing nothing about the topic - four years ago. In fact, on his blog HWTechie.co.uk Chris has written this intriguing post illustrating the financial history of one of his sites!