The Titanic Awards Lets You Say, 'Yes, This Travel Experience Is The Worst'

June 23, 2009 at 6:11 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Over here at Jaunted, we see all kinds of travel surveys on nearly every part of the travel experience. There are surveys about the worst airline food and the meanest flight attendants and the hottest destinations and so forth. Heck, we've even created some of our own. But there's a new sort of survey site on the scene called The Titanic Awards. Here is the site's mission statement in its own words:

If you�ve ever wedged yourself into an airplane seat, checked your luggage or checked into a hotel, you know there are few perfect trips on this planet. Something invariably goes wrong. At times, very wrong. It may be a computer scheduling glitch you can almost understand. Or something bizarre, but entertaining. Even outright incompetence at almost incomprehensible levels.

The Titanic Awards seeks to take a different approach to these often spectacular underachievements in the travel industry� by celebrating them.

Thus the surveys you see on this site have nothing to do with window vs. aisle or OnePass vs. AAdvantage. No, instead you can learn something like The Top 10 Worst Countries at Giving Directions. France wins with 19.5 percent majority of the vote. The U.S. is right behind China in the #3 spot with 6.4 percent of the vote.

You can also learn which cities have the worst public transport. Los Angeles is the winner here, but Sydney, Melbourne, Cairo and Delhi all round out the top five.

Here's another type of survey you can find on Titanic Awards---Which is the lamest of The Seven Medieval Wonders of the World? The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the winner here but is closely followed by Stonehenge. Man, you travellers are really jaded huh?

Still, in a climate such as today's where speaking out on a travel service, experience or product could get you hate mail from PR folk and tourism boards alike, it's refreshing to see the power put back in the hands of the travelers who can say, "Yes, the United States makes the worst beer." (That's according to the Which Country Makes the Worst Beer survey.)

Another fun part of the site is reading other travel experts "World's Worsts" such as Joe Sharkey's worst meal. (Pigeon pie in Casablanca.) And of course, you can participate in a survey as well. That's what we'll be doing right here for the next few minutes. (*Evil cackling.*)

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