Pay for Our Travel: We Promise to Love it
The more bloggers there are, the more questions there become about their relationships with sponsors, the freebies they may receive, and the objectivity of their posts. Here’s a good New York Times summary of the ethics involved.
For our part, if you would like to provide us with airline tickets, free nights at a hotel, lodge, or even (gasp!) a resort, or anything else that some people might call a bribe, we assure you we will love whatever it is we get and write about it to a nauseating degree. We’ll break out the thesaurus and use every synonym for awesome we can find to describe your company/experience.
(Readers with nothing to offer us, please skip over this part.) We truly don’t care about our readers so we are happy to shill for you! Email us!
Readers? Are you back? Truthfully, we have never received money for any post (people would actually have to offer it first) so you have nothing to fear. All of our posts are completely objective – you’ve seen the good, the bad, and the snarky here and will continue to see more of the same.
Thanks for your support!
You’re missing out on the really big money, Shadia. A number of countries pay me NOT to travel there or write about them in my blog. Get a little more snark, and I’m sure you can make the same arrangement.
Ha! I love the graphic. I’m a professional booger as well
I think it’s okay to have travel paid for, I think it’s up to the write to provide their own take on the location, services, culture, etc.
These things need to be made explicit before the trip. Sure I’m going to your destination, but I will be forming my own options about the experience I am having.