don’t forget that if the influencer turns out to be shady/dis-favorable the places they praised could also suffer from the backlash.

Theres an unsaid element that very often the ‘influencer’ personality type is incredibly difficult to deal with. White Moose is a great example where part of the issue was the inherent issues of positive exposure in lieu of money, but a massive part was that the influencer themselves was hard to deal with and took…

Not all Instagram influencers are scammers, though life is technically one big scam, in which humanity tries to get one over on the forces that conspire against them on a macro and micro level.

it’s one of the reasons that they do it. So they can live a life they can’t afford and toss it into peoples’ faces. And maybe get some profit out of it.

“There is so little diversity in aesthetic.” This! That’s why I’ve been trying to market myself as a “Plus-sized, Gen X, ginger-haired, Mommy world traveler” myself. So far not much love beyond the fam and friends, but hope springs eternal.

The Maldives are crazy expensive. Someone else here looked it up, a week at that hotel is 20.000$. I doubt your sisters would spend that much.

I’m a photographer. I understand this completely. People want me to do so much work for “exposure”. Exposure does not pay the bills.

I went on a fancy desert safari in Dubai and our guide, a lovely German expat, told us that between celebrities and influencers, influencers are a nightmare. He said they are there just for the photo op, dson’t pay attention to any of the cool knowledge they share about life in the desert a long time ago, and one…

What seems odd to me is what a high end resort gains from having influencers stay at their hotels? They appear to be so exclusive and typically all booked up that they barely even spend money on traditional advertising. What’s to be gained by having someone come stay for free just to advertise to Instagram’s core…

Wow, I could plan an incredible 2+ week trip across Africa for less than that. But yes, this is a huge amount of money to give away and I am willing to bet that less than 1% of these Instagram followers could afford that or would want to spend that much on a vacation.

I did some numbers. 7 nights at that Dusit Thani resort with full inclusions at their ‘best rate, full board’ is $20,531.

Why would you hope they are buried? How about hoping the entitled fucks get shut down and quit asking people for free shit? That would help you too.

The problem is that many influencers have quite young followers who couldn’t afford travel/ would have to ask their parents.

The things that pisses me off about this is that travel “influencers” like this are almost always thin, attractive young women and fit, attractive men. There is so little diversity in aesthetic and look that I honestly can’t tell most of them apart. The pictures they take are basically the same exact promo shots that…

I couldn’t give any less of a shit. As someone in the creative field who always gets asked to work for free for “exposure” welcome to my world luxury hotel workers. Good luck and I hope you’re buried in requests for free shit for exposure.

How many of the followers of these “influencers” can actually afford to visit these luxury resorts themselves? The answer: none of them. Well, not without permission from mom and dad.

The nightmare of navigating through a sea of emails begging for free poolside cabanas at a resort in Tulum is a fate I would not wish on my worst enemy.

Presumably, the “bone” is an increase in reservations/custom for the ‘Destination’ since these influencers have followings that - I guess - want to be like them, do what they do? They just strike me as unskilled ‘actors’ who want to ‘advertise’ for a luxury location, and in payment they want goods and services instead…

I have a small day bike tour company in a heavily touristed city.

I have to tell most ‘influencers’ that our unmanned facebook page with 1200 followers gets more likes for our once every 6 month random post than anything they ever put up.

“6 people liked my picture of a hotel in Florida, can you imagine what I can do…

Listen, if I’m going to pay good money for a vacation the last I want is to find out the chick next to me is there for me so she can “influence” people on Instagram.