Win a trip to Martinique

Way back before Christmas, I got invited to write about one of my favourite holiday places as part of a promotion for Martinique, to get more US visitors considering the island as somewhere for a holiday. 25 bloggers writing about holiday trips open for you to vote about for your favourite story. The winning story gets a holiday to the island as does one of the voters. There’s a catch though, you need to be based in the US to be eligible - which was not explained in the initial email; it is a group that do targeted marketing and they had correct information at the time. But now as I’m now back in the UK, I could not sign the release paperwork they sent through. However, they used my story anyway!!!! Which I’m not too happy with.

So I’m asking you all to vote - you may be able to win the prize yourself (I’m on page 2 at the moment). And I’d like to see what they do as I have not signed a release for them to use my content - permission was given in the email but they decided they needed to use legal terms for it.

Despite this faux pas, the idea itself it pretty good. Get bloggers to write about their holidays, get them to write about their campaign on their blog and drive the readers to the site - Color Me Martinque, The execution is problematic though - this press release from PR Week has got the wrong URL on it and when you do get to the main site us.franceguide.com I found it almost impossible to find the competition.