Insta Butlers- Instagram’s Impact on Travel

Sunday 16th of February 2020

Insta Butlers- Instagram’s Impact on Travel

Instagram is one of the biggest platforms to show off the world’s best destinations. In fact, there are many in the world that makes a living from being an Instagram influencer. These attractive posts helps us build our travel dreams, but what’s the other side of it?

To get those to-die-for shots, daredevils are living on the edge of cliffs, trespassing, roof topping, perching on train tracks and taking volcano selfies resulting in a number of fatalities. Between 2011 and 2017, there were over 250 selfie-related deaths.

Geotagging allows desirable sites to be identified and saved in folders, like curating one’s own holiday brochure. Reports show that Instagram is part of travelers’ decision-making process with people choosing locations based on potential likes. This leads to over tourism, destroying the destination.

Instagram Butler is now a real job at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island and hotel chain Ibis trialed a service of Instagram Sitters who’d manage guests' accounts during their stay so they could be fully present and actually enjoy themselves.