BizTravelGuru.com Ethics and Associations
Being in the public spotlight I feel that it is my duty to keep both you my readers and the companies I write articles and reviews aboutinformed of the code of ethics of this site. If you have any questions or comments regarding this code of Ethics please free to email me [email protected]
As a leading aviation and business travel blogger at times I am provided free or discounted products and services for the purpose of writing a post or review, below is our code of ethics including disclosures and current Business associations:
We will never write a favourable post or review of a product, service or company because of a free or discounted flight, trip, product or service. All posts will always be our un-biased opinion, weather that be good, bad or average.
Companies and organizations offering free products or service for the purpose of review will always be informed of our code of ethics before the offer is accepted and resulting article written.
Acceptance of a free or discounted product or service does not mean we will write an article or post about the product or service. Future Articles and features are based solely on what we believe will benefit our readers.
Articles that have been produced as a result of a free or discounted product or services for the purpose of a post or review will be disclosed both in the table below and at the bottom of the article.
All products and services provided free of charge or at a discounted rate for the purpose of a review are listed below:
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Company |
Offer |
Date |
Accepted |
Blog Post |
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Singapore Airlines |
SIA A380 First Flight media |
16 October 2007 |
Yes |
The Business Travel Guru Gets up |
|
Emirates |
Free Emirates A380 Business Class Flight Sydney to |
21 May 2009 |
Yes |
Emirates A380 Business Class Flight Review Sydney to
|
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Qantas |
Qantas A380 arrival in Sydney |
Yes |
Various Posts |
|
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Qantas |
Qantas A380 Premium Economy Flight Singapore to Sydney |
Yes |
Qantas A380 Premium Economy Flight Review Singapore to |
|
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Quiet Comfort Platinum |
Free set of Plane QuietComfort |
NA |
Yes |
PlaneQuiet QuietComfort Platinum |
|
Sennheiser |
Free set of Sennheiser PXC 450 Noise Cancelling Headphones |
Yes |
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Lufthansa |
Lufthansa A380 press kit that |
Yes |
Various articles |
|
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Sennheiser |
Free set of Sennheiser PXC 250 Noise Cancelling Headphones |
Yes |
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Emirates Wolgan Valley Resort |
1 Night stay at Emirates Wolgan |
30 October 2010 |
Yes |
I currently have or have had associations with the following companies and sites:
Boarding Area site
– Articles from the Business Travel Guru are featured on the Boarding Area site, I am not paid or provided any free services for this association.
Revenue Earning
Affiliate and Ad Networks
Running a very popular Aviation and Business Travel Site costs money, website hosting alone costs a small fortune each month, not to mention site design and site maintenance, for this reason we are affiliated with the following affiliate and Ad networks in order to provide a quality articles that are hosted on fast and reliable servers. Below are the affiliate and ad networks we are associated with:
Expedia/Expedia
Affiliate Network – We are affiliated with Expedia Affiliate Network, operating an EAN white label site under the Business Travel Guru brand. See an example here.
Also separate section of the Business Travel Guru site (found here) contains EAN hotel listings, commissions are earned on Airline, Hotel, Car rental & Holiday bookings made via one of these pages.
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