Do you think social media has changed the way people experience travel.

Sometimes it feels like people travel to experience places, while other times it feels like people travel mainly to capture content from those places.

I’m curious how others see this shift.

Do you think social media has genuinely improved travel inspiration and discovery, or has it made travel feel more rushed, performative, and less authentic?

Would be interesting to hear different perspectives from frequent travellers.

Not only social media is changing our travel behavior, but also media themselves.
When Madonna made her video to the son "Like A Virgin" where she was standing on a gondola in Venice, people suddenly went crazy and everybody wanted to go there. People were posing like Madonna on gondolas and the hospital were full of tourists banged their head into one of the bridges.

So nothing new here.
I want to create my own path and I feel comfortable in East Europe. Therefore I love countries like Slovakia, Romania and Hungary. I know that Cluj-Napoca in Romania ain´t giving me the same stunning pictures as Paris would do. But significant for me is to have a good time and I had a awesome time in Cluj-Napoca among very friendly Romanians. I wouldn´t have the same experience from Paris. I would just have some nice pictures, but in the end it´s not worth anything if you lack the nice experience.

Kollar du på influencers så får du också den typ av bilder.

Kollar du på agnes som är på mallis får du gamla familjebilder.

Förstår du?

I think you raise a valid point!

People seem to have an almost obsessive need to share their travel experiences with others.

My wife and I have traveled extensively, to every continent except Antarctica, and over the years we’ve taken countless photos. However, we only share them privately with our own family, since neither of us uses social media.

In contrast, we have friends who start flooding their feeds with pictures almost before the plane has even landed. In those cases, I tend to wonder whether traveling is part leisure and part bragging rights.

people who actually doesnt enjoy the trip and/or the company can make videos where they seem happy about it. that's easy. and tragic, and well documented where couples like that end up going separate ways eventually. the videos on ig indicated something else.

i dont get people who go on trips with their kids as if they were going alone or are the first to ever do that, and then complain that everything wasnt easy.

how stupid can you get?
you dont go for yourself, you go for the kids and the memories.