Travel Influencers Share Media Kits and Tips to Score Free Hotel Stays

Eric Stoen, @travelbabbo (332,000 Instagram followers)

Eric Stoen, 50, of @travelbabbo has accrued over 332,000 Instagram followers within the eight years he is been touring and logging his journeys on-line full-time. As his one-page media equipment states, he is been to 62 nations throughout seven continents in that point.

Stoen instructed Insider that 90% of the time resorts will pitch him a free keep first. Nevertheless, he nonetheless workout routines the muscle to pitch resorts now and again the place he is perhaps staying for an prolonged time period so he can get a greater charge. 

„I would estimate one-third of the time I am rejected, one-third I obtain a free keep, and one-third I am supplied a reduced media charge,“ he mentioned.

For individuals who are nonetheless breaking into the trade, and will save much more cash upfront with comped resorts, he suggests pitching to chains that may afford to surrender a room for promotion. And, most significantly, decide to selling the resort authentically.

„Attain out to resorts the place that there is a match together with your followers and the place you are assured your posts can ship income,“ mentioned Stoen. „And do not take a look at something as a free keep; it is a advertising partnership the place you are anticipated to supply actual worth in alternate for a keep.“

„Ensure that it’ll be a good partnership,“ he added. „I often do not attain out to smaller resorts – they want the income. Chains is usually a higher technique to go, particularly as you are beginning out.“