Originally posted on October 20, 2015 @ 1:30 am
In the past, looking for travel destinations was often a matter of searching through travel brochures or talking to family members about where they just got back from. After that, the internet became a great place to search for specific places based on certain criteria. But now, the best way to find your travel destinations is probably going to be through social media accounts!
There are several reasons for this, including the fact that real people with real reviews are way more reliable than advertisements, and since data is integrated so firmly within social networks, reality becomes a perpetual loop when it comes to entertainment.
Look Through Facebook Pages
There are social Facebook pages, and there are company pages, and there are group pages, and pages of all different sorts. So if you’re looking for travel destinations, you might as well search through travel destination Facebook pages! Some of them are very simply and realistically laid out to give you the most information possible while giving you contact information in order to be able to talk to company representatives quickly and easily.
Find Instagram Pictures
Another great way to find travel destinations is by checking out popular Instagram travel accounts. People take beautiful photos of different places, and it can help you decide what kind of environment you want to travel to. You can get a little more detailed by specifying things like urban, green, city, country, or what basic geographical area you want to travel to as well. Because hashtags work so well as search terms, you can really narrow in on what types of things you’d be most likely to enjoy.
Read Through Tweet Reviews
Twitter is another place to find inspiration for travel ideas. You can either look through the slightly more commercial tweets that wander through from companies, or you can see the snippets, photos, and videos that people post when they are out and about on their own vacations. The more you learn to use searches and lists, the better you’ll be able to explore other people’s thoughts on their own travel experiences.
Snapchat Stories Are Getting More Refined
One of the new features of Snapchat is the ability to see stories of certain areas. This can be quasi-promotional for certain types of events, or it can be news-related. Either way, the aggregate of information from people can be extremely helpful if you’re looking for new places to explore, or, to a certain degree, avoid, if there are bad things happening there. For example, footage from North Carolina was featured recently that showed people’s snaps of the damage caused by the latest storms to go through the area.