Misleading Travel Ads May Boomer-ang

If Niagara Falls is on your “bucket list,” Expedia may get you there. Photo from Niagara Falls State Park.

You may have seen the Expedia.com TV commercial in which a man stops random passersby, questions them about their dream trips and inquires, “If you were asked to drop everything right now, would you go?” and suggests that Expedia is ready to buy them a ticket and send them wherever they want — if they go now.

The ad is titled “Find Your Spontaneity,” a teaser for Expedia’s current “Trip A Day Giveaway” promotion.

Some say no, they just couldn’t do it today. But one man, whose dream is going to China, does agree to leave that night — and the next image we see is him standing on the Great Wall, not quite believing his good fortune.

The first thing that bothered me about this ad is that unless… Continue reading →