Originally Posted by
estnet
Just saw this
"Marriott has sent out invitations to various writers last week offering a paid trip to Hong Kong to showcase the brand in exchange for a pair of posts in two major publications. " quoted from live and lets fly blog.
https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea....rogatory-verb/
Is this really true? Shameful if it is - and maybe they're starting to see some effects of all their incompetence ?
To be fair, this seems fairly and squarely aimed at the mainstream media, eg travel supplements of national newspapers. You can tell that by the way they try to convince you that you'll be 'living the Titanium Elite lifestyle'.
(In my case, based on Berlin last week, that would mean being given the keys to a room which is occupied and then quietly downgraded when you are reassigned another room.)
Most journos on such publications would get several offers like this each week. Note that flights are not covered.