What is a Junketeer?
The term “junketeer” can be used in two senses. In the first and most common sense, a junketeer is someone who takes junkets, but the term also comes up in reference to people who organize junkets, especially people who organize junkets for profit. Junkets are a growing business in many regions of the world, with numerous people from a wide variety of industries taking regular junkets, so it is perhaps not surprising that the idea of specialized junketeers who profit from their endeavors has arisen. A junket is a trip or journey taken largely for pleasure at the expense of the public. Politicians have historically gone on junkets to visit various sites of interest for self-promotional opportunities, and press have typically been invited to go along on such trips. The term is also used to reference trips paid for by companies with the goal of influencing people; for example, a company might pay for a trip to an exotic locale for a conference or discussion of its offerings, in the hopes
