We Ruined Travel for Instagram Likes

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Let's escape December's darkness with a mental vacation to some exotic travel locales. Tulum! Bali! Lisbon! Millions of people visit these popular tourist destinations, but why? Is it for personal growth and discovery, or are we just chasing social rewards by notching another iconic photo on our Instagram page? Maybe it's both!

The idea that "social media has ruined travel" gets brought up a lot by grumbly Internet curmudgeons, but is it true? Bridget took a look at what social science has to say about it and discussed what she found with Producer Mike.

Read the research article by Drs. Lauren A. Siegel, Iis Tussyadiah, and Caroline Scarles

https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2022.2086451

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