'Dim diolch' to Welsh says the world's biggest travel website

The world's largest travel website has banned reviews in Welsh - even though it allows 28 other languages including Finnish and Slovakian.

Trip Advisor blocked a museum report by reviewer Emrys Llywelyn because using Welsh "violated its language policy."

The tour guide, from Caernarfon, North Wales, said he felt "insulted" at the decision, and called for Wales' national language to be added to the 28 different languages the website already hosts.

Mr Llewellyn had written a short review of the Llyn Maritime Museum in Gwynedd, North Wales, before being sent an email from Trip Advisor who said it "breached their guidelines".

Mr Llywelyn contacted his local MP, Plaid Cymru's Arfon Hywel Williams, who said he has written to Trip Advisor's London headquarters and urged them to update their policy.

Mr Williams said: "A review in Welsh would be particularly appropriate to this attraction, given its location in an area where Welsh is widely spoken and used.

"Trip Advisor say they represent the largest Travel community in the world. Clearly they exclude some members of that community, either deliberately or by default."

According to the 2014 Welsh Language Survey, 673,000 people speak Welsh in Wales, making up 23 per cent of the population.

Trip Advisor supports 28 languages in total, but has so far refused to include languages such as Welsh, Catalan, Icelandic and Gaelic.

A spokesman for the website said: