The website matching rich men who want to take 'attractive' women on free vacations... but is it safe?

A new dating website has launched which aims to pair rich men who don't like to travel alone, with attractive women who want a free vacation.
In what vaguely resembles an escort agency, although the site claims otherwise, MissTravel.com guarantees a mutually beneficial arrangement as 'the only online dating website for travelers'.
Similar to Sugar Daddy dating websites with a globetrotting theme, the Generous travelling member is expected to pay all travel expenses for Attractive' travelling members'.

Online-dating: A new website has launched which aims to pair rich men who don't like to travel alone, with attractive women who want a free vacation

'Attractive travellers' can either accepting a 'generous traveller's' proposal to visit his or her home town, or go on a trip together.

MissTravel.com also offers 'benefits' as a way to entice women to the site, providing a points based incentive system.

 

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The site explains: 'Generous members have the ability to gift frequent flyer points to Attractive members (hence gifting them the gift of travel).
It continues: 'Attractive members who accumulate enough frequent flyer points may redeem them for free airline tickets and hotel rooms, allowing them the opportunity to travel the world for free.'

Online-dating: The site matches 'Generous travelers who hate to travel alone with Attractive travelers who would love the opportunity to travel the world for free'

A writer at Jezebel signed up as an Attractive Female to see what the site was really like, and concluded that: 'It's pretty much exactly like a regular dating site'
They wrote: 'There are chiseled orange heirs on yachts who are probably liars, bewigged white executives looking for "black or mixed females only," faux-poetic blowhards spouting bullshit they think makes them sound sensitive ("You have been accused of having too much heart but you know in your soul this is the only way to be"), really really sad and lonely people who are painful to look at, and a [lot of] of gross married dudes.
Jezebel points out that while lonely people have the right to buy company if they so choose, and women are equally allowed to make their own 'possibly bad' choices, this particular site has the ability to facilitate a large amount of coercion.

Safety first: There is an obvious power imbalance swaying in favour of the Generous traveller, leading to possible coercion on the site

One could argue that it is mutually-beneficial, reasoning that the women are using and objectifying the men as much as the men are using and objectifying the women.
However there is an obvious power imbalance, swaying in favour of the 'generous traveller'.
As Jezebel points out: 'You're not just on a date with this person - this rich, powerful stranger - you're on a boat, you're in a hotel room, you're in fu**ing Thailand or some sh*t.'
The site also disclaims it does not do its own background checks on its members.
Which is a potentially scary position to be in for a girl who finds herself 5,000 miles away from home with a stranger, only to realise she doesn't want to 'put out'.