How far would you go to market Wales?
Monday, September 14th, 2009
You’ve probably heard about this video already, if not the idea is simple. Take a young attractive Danish women who likes to drink, add a one night stand with a visiting tourist and the ‘inevitable’ result 9 moths later. The women of course is an actress and the video a hoax, but enough people believed it to be real to now feel very annoyed and cheated - OK they’re really pissed off with the Danish Tourist Board.
We know this sort of thing happens ‘all the time’, in-fact (in Wales) you don’t even need to be tourist to have a drunken one night stand; but should a country use free unprotected sex to market itself?
The two questions that come to mind: “How far would you go to market Wales?” and “Was there a Danish plan to deal with the fallout when this blew up in their faces?”
UPDATE: Between starting this blog entry and posting it the YouTube video was removed. The video link now goes to Mashable.com where I first saw this article. You can still see the original YouTube video here.
