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 A still from an advertisement from a travel company that will offer prizes to Danish couples who get pregnant while on vacations. 
 
 A Danish travel company on Thursday claimed it could boost Denmark's dwindling birth rates by sending more couples to romantic cities like Paris, in an advertising campaign titled "Do it for Denmark!" 
 
 In a two-minute video clip featuring abandoned playgrounds and sombre-looking pensioners, Spies, the Danish unit of Britain's Thomas Cook Group, lamented that the country's birth rate was now at a 27-year low. 
 
 "At Spies we're concerned. Fewer Danes mean fewer to support the ageing population - and tragically, fewer holidaying with us," the travel company said. 
 
 While a recent UN survey said Denmark was the happiest nation on earth, the campaign argues that it may not be the sexiest. 
 
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 In the clip, a decidedly grey and depressing Scandinavia is contrasted with the City of Light, where a young Danish couple can be seen drinking in front of the Eiffel Tower, dancing in front of the Moulin Rouge and shopping for sexy underwear. 
 
 "Meet Emma. She is Danish, but even though she was born and raised in Denmark, she was made in Paris. Right up there, in that hotel room," says the advert's voiceover. 
 
 The commercial goes on to claim that Danes have 46 percent more sex while on holiday, resulting in 10 percent of the population being conceived then. 
 
 "We are prescribing a romantic city holiday to save Denmark's future," the group said in the tongue-in-cheek commercial. 
 
 "After all, it will also help our future business," it added. 
 
 In 2012 Denmark's birth rate was down 17 percent since the turn of the millennium to 10.4 births per 1000 residents, making it the lowest in the Nordic region, according to official figures 
 
 To shore it up, the company offered an "ovulation discount" to women who entered the start-date of their latest menstruation period when booking, allowing the company to calculate the best time for them to travel. 
 
 Those submitting pictures of a positive pregnancy test and a pregnancy journal after their holiday also had the chance to win gifts including a three-year supply of nappies and a family holiday. 
 
 Elderly people and gay couples were also invited to participate since "it's not just about winning, all the fun is in the participation." 
 
 On Thursday, the video clip had received 350,000 views on YouTube in less than a day. 
 
 "We have received feedback from around the world," company spokesman Torben Andersen said. 
 
 AFP 

 Published on Mar 26, 2014 
 
 No one has found out how to help Denmark's falling birth rate. Until now. Spies Travels announces a competition where you have to make a baby to win. 
 
 https://do-it-for-denmark.dk 
 
 
 
 Link to the danish travel agency Spies: https://www.spies.dk 
 
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 Ingen har fundet løsningen på Danmarks alarmerende faldende fødselstal. Før nu. 
 
 Spies står bag en konkurrence, hvor du skal undfange en baby for at vinde. https://do-it-for-denmark.dk 

 Denmark has a lot of things going for it. Last year, the UN’s World Happiness Report crowned it the globe’s happiest country, citing the nation’s commitment to maternity leave, gender equality, biking, and drinking lots of wine when it’s cold outside. 
 
 Its economy is also tops, chugging out $211 billion in annual GDP despite its relatively small population of 5.6 million. Economic inequality? Not a problem. Income distributes more evenly there than most places. 
 
 But Denmark has a sex problem. (Re-evaluating that happiness ranking already?) 
 
 Well, it’s not exactly a sex problem, per se. It’s more like a baby problem. According to government statistics, Denmark posted a birth rate of 10 per 1,000 residents in 2013 — its lowest in decades. The nation’s birthrate was 9.9 in 1983. 
 
 Denmark’s perennially low birth rate places it with Germany (8.33), Japan (8.39) and Singapore (7.72). And the downward trend has left people worried in Denmark. Most couples say they want two or three kids, according to the Copenhagen Post, but one in five couples wind up childless. 
 
 On Wednesday, a bold — and hilarious — campaign emerged in Denmark to reverse the trend. For the salvation of the country, a travel company-organized movement called “Do it for Denmark!” wants Danes to act and act now — without precautions. “Denmark is facing a crisis,” the company, Spies Rejser, says. “We are concerned. The fewer Danes means fewer people to support the aging population — but sadly, also fewer Spies travelers.” 
 
 Warning: Mildly NSFW video. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Source: Statistics Denmark. Graphic: Tobey – The Washington Post. 
 
 But don’t fret, Denmark! There’s a solution. 
 
 “Studies show that Danes have 46 percent more sex on [vacation], and because more sex increases the chances for more children, we [call] for a romantic break to save the future of Denmark.” 
 
 The Post was unable to independently confirm that Danes have 46 percent more sex on vacation, but the claim that people generally make more whoopi while on vacation does appear plausible, especially if they don’t have kids along. According to a 2004 National Leisure Travel Monitor study, one third of people reported they had more sex while on vacation, and Psychology Today agrees. 
 
 So can vacation sex save the Kingdom of Denmark? 
 
 Spies thinks it can, so the company has sweetened the deal. According to its promotion, the company will give prizes to couples who get pregnant while on vacations purchased through them. First, the couple must select a “romantic” city — it recommends Paris and Rome — then “let yourself be seduced by the city pulse.” 
 
 
 
 Afterward, upon successful sex, the couple is to shoot off a positive pregnancy test and medical records to the company. Then they may win three years worth of free diapers. 
 
 And just in case Danes are confused by this whole pregnancy thing, the company has offered a helpful how-to. “Use your cycle to identify the most likely time to conceive,” it explains. “Avoid stress. Get a massage. Try yoga. Take advantage of gravity. Lie down for at least 15 minutes after sex.” 
 
 “And men,” Spies admonishes, “avoid tight pants. Even if you think it looks good.”
– A travel company in Denmark seems to have struck PR gold with a campaign to jump-start the nation's falling birth rate. Spies Travel is generating lots of headlines for its "Do It for Denmark!" promotion, in which it laments that so few babies are being born in the country and offers incentives to couples to fix the problem, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. If couples book a trip and get pregnant—proof is needed, including a photo of a positive test—they can win prizes such as three years of diapers. Denmark had a birth rate of 10 per 10,000 residents in 2013, its lowest in decades and among the lowest in the world, reports the Washington Post. "We are concerned," says the travel company. "The fewer Danes means fewer people to support the aging population—but sadly, also fewer Spies travelers.” Its tongue-in-cheek campaign floats stats such as one claiming that couples have 46% more sex while on vacation.