So get this: there's an online dating community where you go on a vacation with someone you've never met. Odd? I thought so too. It's called MissTravel.com. Before seeing this Nightline segment, I had no clue this even existed. Here's a description from the website:
MissTravel.com is the only online dating website for travelers, and more specifically, we match Generous travelers who hate to travel alone with Attractive travelers who would love the opportunity to travel the world for free.
Traveling to exotic new places and experiencing new cultures can be so much fun especially when you have the money to travel, and you have someone attractive to travel with (especially when it is with someone you really like). MissTravel.com was built to solve the big travel dilemma, by matching Generous frequent flyers who have the money but lack company with Attractive travel lovers who don’t have the financial resources to do so.
Besides matchmaking, MissTravel.com does a whole lot more. The website provides an incentive system that allows Generous members the ability to gift frequent flyer points to Attractive members (hence gifting them the gift of travel). Attractive members who accumulate enough frequent flyer points may redeem them for free airline tickets and hotel rooms, allowing them the opportunity to travel the world for free.
Hooking up "attractive" travelers with "generous" people. Alrighty then...
As I mentioned, Nightline did a fascinating story on the site. They somehow got permission from two people to follow them on their trip to Miami...where they met for the first time:
As I mentioned, Nightline did a fascinating story on the site. They somehow got permission from two people to follow them on their trip to Miami...where they met for the first time:
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Kesslyn was getting ready to jetset off to Miami Beach for a romantic weekend getaway with her date Dave, who was paying for the whole trip, from salsa dancing lessons to fine dining.
The only thing is, Dave and Kesslyn had never met before.
“I am actually going on a date with a guy and we are traveling to Miami and we are going to meet up for the first time he’s paying for this entire thing,” Kesslyn said.
Dave, a 26-year-old outside sales representative from Santa Monica, California, and Kesslyn, a 21-year-old neuroscience major at Tulane University, are like a growing number of couples seeking spring break romance with the help of MissTravel.com, an online dating website that pairs "attractive" women with "generous" men willing to foot the bill for trips all over the world.
See? Fascinating! And that's all I'm gonna say about that.
Have you heard of MissTravel before? What do you think?
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