Is parachute journalism ethical?

Steph examines one of travel writing's biggest moral quandaries

Cast your mind back to 2020. It’s not a time many of us want to revisit, but bear with me. When borders closed and we learned to accept that the distance from our sofa to our beds was as far as we’d be travelling anytime soon, publications began switching up their commissioning processes.

Press trips had vanished alongside air travel, so editors began t…