Originally Posted by
sbm12
Or honest about the idiocy of how marketing organizations target their comp'd trips and why trusting what you read about a destination, especially from a press trip, is a questionable move.
I suppose possibly all of the above, too.
I'll be honest: reading through her faux-bohemian snobbery, I found myself thinking that I'd really enjoy staying at the Sea Horse. Enough that I googled the place, anyway. In a way, more so than if she had simply followed the standard travel writer line of pumping the hell out of the place the way P&M bloggers pump the hell out of Chase cards.
So maybe pudgy American co-owner Jennifer, her
The Help-loving sister in law Melody and the Tourist Board of the DR are crazy like a fox for inviting pretentious and ungrateful bloggers!
And maybe Sarah there did more harm to the cause of anti-exploitation and neo-colonialism than good with her screed.
In any case, thanks for sharing! It did indeed give some terrific insight into the mind of a travel blogger on the verge of/dipping her toe into 'selling out.'