Skift Take
We’re working on a finding a traveler that’s already snagged one of these gigs to find out if a diet of foreign food, Facebook, and Twitter is all it’s cracked up to be.
A city in China is seeking a “Modern Day Marco Polo” to discover the city’s most tourism-worthy places and tweet about them.
It’s the latest of various envy-inducing job alerts over the last two years… The “job,” offered by Hangzhou Tourism Commission, apparently demands nothing more than broadening one’s cultural experiences over the course of a year and spreading them via social media.
A paycheck of €40,000 (US$51,870) will be provided.
Tags: china, labor, social media
Photo credit: A man stops on his bicycle to take a photo in Hangzhou, China. Sai Ande / Flickr