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Tony Cash

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  1. Regarding the listing-text, I think you´re right - but please do not forget the "Related Webpage"-link which also appears as part of the listing! And the "Related Webpage"-link directly refers to the official airport webpage.
  2. Well, to give my 5 cents regarding this topic: The cache which we are discussing about definitly has commercial content, because it uses a "Related Webpage"-Link to the homepage of the airport. Any cache relating to for example a restaurant via a "Related Webpage"-Link would not be published. But furthermore the same user has 4 Travelbugs running around Germany (Here are 3 of the TB-Codes: TB4JJR1 TB4JZO4 TB4KNVQ) Each of the Travelbugs not only is part of a commercial game where you can win a flight from Dortmund Airport to one of the goals mentioned in the TB-Listing, but also again is connected via a weblink in the TB-Listing to the Homepage of Dortmund Airport. The TB-Listing states the following: Keronimo is the official mascot of the Dortmund Airport. The Keronimo Travel Bug has the goal to visit the following destinations of the summer flight plan of Dortmund Airport: Egypt Hurghada Bulgaria Sofia, Burgas Germany Heringsdorf/Usedom, Munich Greece Thessaloniki Kosovo Pristina Croatia Split, Zagreb Lithuania Wilna (Vilnius) Poland Wroclawv, Gdansk, Katowice, Lodz, Poznan Romania Bukarest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara (Temeswar), Targu Mures Serbia Belgrad Spain Alicante, Almeria, Barcelona, Bilbao, Fuerteventura, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Las Palmas/Gran Canaria, Madrid, Mahon/Menorca, Malaga, Palma de Majorca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia ... An airport ist a commercial corporation: so why allowing a corporation using the Geocaching-Platform for marketing purposes ? As the cache itself only is of relevance for local cachers and the airport is highly discussed because of noise pollution etc. in the local area, Groundspeak and Geocaching will surely not gain positive image by this cache. Either Groundspeak is not aware of this fact or the airport paid for being allowed to use the Geocaching-Platform for marketing and therfore does not care about possible image-damage. From my point of view Groundspeak shold rather raise Premium-Member fees instead of "prostituting" themselves gaining money for commercial use of any business related company, because people will surely get annoyed by "marketing-caches" very fast!
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