Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers

Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by zaarn on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:20AM (#17337319)

To my knowledge influencers rarely travel to "cool" places. They travel to family friendly, safe places. And safe in multiple meanings in both "people are safe here" and "this place is safe for me as influencer since noone will be offended".

My family used to travel a lot and we went to a lot of family-unsafe places at times (like in-the-wilderniss campsites in southern africa where you can't leave the RV because there is snakes and wild animals outside or climbing up several vulcanoes in iceland and I mean 'climb' not 'walk up a slope')

Those are actually cool places.

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by charlesdm on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:16AM (#17337968)

I'm not disagreeing with what you say, because I too think the places you describe are often cool. However, they're also very much outside of the comfort zone of most people.

For example, on average I would assume most women prefer a romantic getaway to the Maldives over climbing a volcano in Iceland. And most people with kids likely won't be going on a month long roadtrip through Africa or South-America.

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Re:Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self... by kchronic8 on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:00AM (#17338290)

> For example, on average I would assume most women prefer a romantic getaway to the Maldives over climbing a volcano in Iceland. And most people with kids likely won't be going on a month long roadtrip through Africa or South-America.

Because a romantic getaway is far cheaper than Iceland or Africa. It's not because it's outside their comfort zone, it's because they can't afford it. The average woman (or man) can barely take enough vacation days, let alone pay for it.

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