Log on to titanicawards.com for funniest travel mishaps
June 19th, 2010 - 6:28 pm ICT by ANILondon, June 19 (ANI): Alternative travel website The Titanic Awards has uploaded a video on YouTube which shows vomiting air travellers and urinating sculptures among other funny travel mishaps.
The site’s editor Doug Lansky trawled through hours of online footage to create the montage.
Lansky started the site because he was tired of travel writers presenting an idealised view of destinations.
He says on his website that travel writers “often feel obligated to sell a destination. Either they believe that making the reader want to go there is a sign of literary success or they have taken free trips,” reports Sky News.
He adds: “If you eliminate all critical reviews for one reason or another.
“Travel is getting an exemption from journalism and what you’re left with can be hard to distinguish at times from travel brochures.”
Readers of The Titanic Awards website are invited to send in pictures, footage and nightmare travel stories for entertainment.
Amongst the funny scenarios the public can vote for are the most annoying tourists, the rudest waiters and the worst airports. (ANI)
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