Saturday Essay: The Naked Corruption of Travel Journalism

Of which I was happy to be a part.

Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash

If there’s one part of a newspaper I invariably skip over, it’s the travel section.

Because have you noticed there is never ever a bad review of anywhere?

Have you also noticed the ‘best places to live’ sections? ( The recent Sunday Times survey put Crouch End as the best place to live in London. Really?)

The reason thes…