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"  Some of us go to deal sites to travel cheap. Others sign up for five different airline-affiliated credit cards every year (not that I&amp;#039;d know anything about that\u2026). And then there&amp;#039;s MissTravel.com, touted as &amp;quot;the only online dating website for travelers.&amp;quot; Here&amp;#039;s how it works: Users fall into one of two categories\u2014Attractive Travelers and Generous Travelers. The former are defined as &amp;quot;beautiful people&amp;quot; who want to travel for free. Because really, why should pretty people have to figure out a way to fund their own trips? And then there&amp;#039;s the Generous Travelers, a.ka. Sugar Daddies, who are happy to shell out the dough to cover all vacay expenses in order to have a pretty young thang hanging off their arms in first class. Said Generous Traveler then proposes a trip to the destination of choice, be it Tanzania, Budapest, or a visit to one of the traveler&amp;#039;s home towns. The site recommends one of these home visits to get to know your date before traveling possibly thousands of miles away, but there aren&amp;#039;t actually any rules instructing how to play the game. We&amp;#039;d think the home visit would be advisable, given the number of creepy/terrifying cases of beautiful women vanishing into thin air on cruise ships and tropical vacations. Not to mention, if he&amp;#039;s paying for your four-week stay in Paris, he&amp;#039;s probably expecting you to put out after feeding you the fanciest caviar on the menu. And if you&amp;#039;re not interested, it&amp;#039;s not exactly an easy\u2014or cheap\u2014trip home. As for safety, it&amp;#039;s like your average dating site. The only actual precautionary measure the site takes is offering men the chance to pay more for a background check so that if approved, the guys can tack a special safety badge on their profile. (Bonus: You know your date isn&amp;#039;t a criminal!) Otherwise it&amp;#039;s up to the ladies to do the checking. The questionable safety factor hasn&amp;#039;t stopped people from joining. Since its launch last year, the site has attracted hundreds of thousands of members. Clearly founder Brandon Wade\u2014a serial entrepreneur who also started the dating sites SeekingArrangement.com (young women seeking sugar daddies), SeekingMillionaire.com, and WhatsYourPrice.com (members bid for dates)\u2014is onto something. Still sounds kind of creepy and more like an escort or prostitution service than any old dating site, doesn&amp;#039;t it? Sure there&amp;#039;s a disclaimer at the bottom of the site explicitly stating it will remove professional escorts from the site. And no money is exchanged (well, except for that fat bill he paid to fly you across the pond, cover your hotel room, etc): The site is free for users, and Attractive members aren&amp;#039;t paid to travel. But when the premise of the date is traveling for free because you&amp;#039;re a hottie, it&amp;#039;s hard to buy the idea that anyone here is really looking for a love connection. Would you travel with a stranger? Want more from Jessica? Follow her on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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