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Why Market Your Hotel on Social Media?

Of travelers rely on social media for travel inspiration., of all travelers visit their social media accounts at least once per day, every day., of consumers have used a company’s social media for customer service., social media for hotels.

• Inspire travelers with captivating social media and video content.
• Grow engagement through custom, personalized social media posts.
• Heighten hotel and brand recognition through boosted social campaigns.

Custom Social & Video Content Creation For Hotels

Social posts shared and counting, posts shared per month on average, experience the tmg difference.

• Consistent and timely presence on a global stage with the ability to scale
• Curated content that supports guest engagement and influences traveler booking decisions
• Strengthen brand loyalty initiatives

• Tracking and oversight of social presence across the portfolio
• Collaborative experience with full content ownership and credential security
• Enable social media excellence for your hotel teams

• Engage travelers and guests with inspiring content and relevant updates
• Reach more travelers with boosted posts
• Interactive content calendar allows for full transparency and input

All About Social Media

Which social media sites do you post content to?

We post social media & video content on Facebook, Instagram, X, & LinkedIn. Users also gain access to video creation tools for Instagram Reels & TikTok.

How often do you post content on our behalf?

It depends. We offer social media packages that include up to 5 posts per week. We schedule & post content according to a content calendar provided to you through TMG OneView®.

Who is responsible for creating the social media content?

Our in-house team of TMG social media experts curate and publish all social media and video content. We closely collaborate with each hotel partner to understand what type of content they want to post on their social platforms.  Users also gain access to various social content creation tools.

Is the content unique?

Yes, all the content is expertly crafted for each individual hotel to highlight the guest experience to prospective travelers. Unique social content includes property features, local events & attractions, and much more.

What is the price of the social media digital solution?

Pricing is based on the number of social posts for your hotel, so the cost can vary by property. Hoteliers can customize their packages by post frequency or content type. Social Media plans begin at $355/month.

Does Travel Media Group provide social media analytics?

Yes, we ensure that your social strategy is performing optimally, connecting at least once a month to share data and analytics from your hotel’s social content and ad campaigns included in your package.

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Our mission is to serve the 50+ traveler who's ready to cross a few items off their bucket list.

My Favorite Social Media Travel Groups

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Social media is how travelers connect. And according to a Pew Research study, some 62 percent of internet users ages 65 and older use Facebook — and 72 percent of 50–64-year-olds report using it.

A few months before COVID isolated millions in their homes, Ann Marie McCarthy launched a meetup for people who participated on her Facebook site, the Over 60 Woman Travel and Meetup Group . It was a first for her — she had arranged for speakers, food, and lots of socializing at a hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey. And she knew right away that the direction she was taking hit a nerve in the over 60 women’s travel cohort because her site expanded rapidly, with online discussion and Zoom meetings offering speakers and presentations. There are now more than 5,000 members in her group on Facebook, and a sister site recently posted on Instagram . 

I was a speaker at that first meeting. I had only just begun to write articles about my travels, and this Facebook group made me feel like I was part of a community that has provided me with travel information, great advice, and life-enhancing friendships. 

Facebook And Social Media

Although travelers also use other social media platforms — like Instagram , YouTube , Pinterest , Twitter , and WhatsApp — Facebook outnumbers them all (and most of the large Facebook groups also have sites on other platforms). With some 2.85 billion users in 2021, Facebook is now the largest social media platform in the world. 

There has been much negative criticism of Facebook, but studies have shown that baby boomers seem to have more positive emotions associated with it than do millennials. Perhaps that’s because the 50+ cohort largely uses it for reconnecting with old friends and finding new ones, as well as for family updates. 

One of the most powerful aspects of Facebook is that it can offer travel groups very specific audiences: by gender, age, interests, and activity levels. Most of the groups below thrive on diversity — of race, religion, sexual preference, ethnicity, and country origin. There are groups for solo trips, small groups, bus tours, hiking trips, and cruises. Other travel-related groups include home exchange, international pet sitting, finding a travel partner, and meetups in cities around the world. 

My Favorite Groups (Mostly) For Women 

Over 60 solo women travelers group (17.9k members).

With members ranging in age “from 55 to 95,” some members of this group are experienced solo travelers, some are newbies seeking advice and encouragement, and some are in between. Because there is much discussion online about what solo travel means, this group demonstrates its inclusivity by noting that it “can mean taking a backpack and hitting the road with no plan, or joining day trips in cities that you visit, or joining a tour of other single travelers.” The group is administered by One Woman Traveler, which also administers the website One Woman Traveler, the Global Community for Older Independent Women Travelers, a presence on the Mighty Networks platform.

Over 60 Women Travel And Meetup (5.5K Members)

I joined this group at its inception and have enjoyed meeting some wonderful women over the past 2 years. The Over 60 Women Travel and Meetup group shares travel plans, travel photos, and information about everything from the best medical insurance to getting refunds on airline cancellations to emerging new bucket list destinations. Under the aegis of Anne Marie McCarthy, the group’s individual members have created in-person meetups everywhere from New York City to Birmingham to Annapolis to Philadelphia to Phoenix to Orange County, California, and even abroad. A large meetup scheduled for Savannah in November of 2021 sold out in days. 

Solo Travel Groups For All Ages

The solo female travel network (466k members) .

Claiming to be the largest solo female travel group online, SoFe Travel also offers sister groups that focus on some of the most popular conversation topics, such as LBTQ+ Travel , Over 40 , Free Accommodation , and others. They also offer meetups in countries around the world.

Solo Travel Society (264K Members)

The Solo Travel Society is a community where people who share a passion for traveling alone exchange tips, suggestions, and encouragement. They offer discussion of the how and why of solo travel and feature weekly posts on solo travel destinations. Dramatic photos are contributed by readers. 

Girls Love Travel (1.1 Million Members)

Girls Love Travel calls itself “a global community of aspiring women travelers providing resources and empowerment to one another to explore the world fearlessly through safety, socializing, and support.” The site reports that its members range from age 13 to 91, with different backgrounds and from all walks of life. 

Groups Connected To Travel Companies And Magazines

Some travel companies and magazines have specific Facebook pages for women. All have active discussions, photograph posting, and shared advice about the joys and challenges of travel. The following are some of my favorites:

• Women of Road Scholar
• EF Go Ahead
• Overseas Adventure Travel
• Intrepid Travel  
• Women Who Travel ( Condé Nast Traveler® ) 
• Travel + Leisure

Groups Offering Practical Help For Travelers

Host a sister (156k members).

Host A Sister is a global community in which women around the world find accommodations or share their homes for free as part of a worldwide cultural exchange. 

Home Exchange (65K Members)

Members may exchange their homes in 187 countries around the world. Home exchange stories and photos are posted on Facebook. The site’s slogan is: “Travel anywhere. Live like a local. Stay for free.”

Couchsurfing (895K Members)

Couchsurfing provides a way to inexpensively travel the world by staying with locals. Folks in various countries offer their homes and share their lives and cultures with travelers. Couchsurfers organize regular events in cities around the world. 

Trusted Housesitters (242K Members)

This is a British-based group that enables its members to find house and pet sitting opportunities in countries around the world. It also provides vetted and trustworthy folks to care for pets and/or homes for travelers, for a fee.

Some Caveats And Rules 

A major criticism of Facebook and other social media is that they do not oversee hostile conversations. That’s why most groups listed have established rules for their members, including banning hate speech and bullying, rejecting promotions or spam, and respecting the user’s privacy and cultural traditions. Many sites have caveats to “be nice.” I’ve noted bickering over everything from the politics of COVID shots to arguments over what countries people should avoid. Sometimes these arguments include name-calling, but happily, sometimes participants establish a truce.

Privacy And Membership

A number of these groups are open only to members. Those who want to join must offer basic facts about themselves and their interests and perhaps give an email address. They must assure the group that they are not a business or marketing company trolling for sales.

What I Love About Facebook And Other Social Media

I know that I have made some lifelong connections and have found funny and smart friends on several of these travel groups. I have also found that users largely trust others like them for advice — especially people in their own cohort — more than they do organizations or marketers. And even if one is not a fan of Facebook, it is difficult to deny that digital technology and social media have and will affect the travel behavior of our cohort. 

For those who have the ability to weigh opinions, recognize valid information, and take an enthusiastic leap when opportunities present themselves, social media can certainly inform and inspire our connections to each other and to the world. A growing number of women are watching, reading, waiting, and then changing their life paths by taking that leap.

Other sound travel advice:

• Considering A Home Exchange? 8 Tips To Make It A Success
• 6 Savvy Tips For Navigating Unexpected Travel Risks In 2021
• 10 Safety Tips For Women Traveling Solo

Barbara Winard of The Baby Bloomer has earned degrees in English literature, journalism, and, later in life, gerontology. For 25 years, she was a senior editor of two online encyclopedias and wrote thousands of articles about literature, film, the fine and performing arts, and more.

She began her solo travels in college, and after returning from a 6-month trip to Asia, she wandered off the street and was hired by the Asia Society in New York City to produce films and print materials for adults and children about Asian culture. She also worked as a film programmer and traveled to film festivals around the world. Barbara got her start in film production and writing with New York City’s public television station, WNET/13. After writing an article about historic New Castle, Delaware, for TravelAwaits in 2021, she was inspired to move to Delaware several months later.

Expedia Group Media Solutions

Social media for travel marketing.

By Expedia Group Media Solutions

October 28, 2022

These days, much of our lives are documented online. Baby pictures, birthdays, holidays and, of course, picture-perfect sunsets or mouth-watering plates of food from far-flung locations can be found on any number of social media channels.

Travel, by its very nature, has always been about social networking. Whether it’s having a spontaneous conversation at an espresso café in Italy or deciding to sky dive in Abu Dhabi with a group of like-minded thrill seekers, the experience of travel has taken on a new dimension. It’s grown from sharing the experience of your vacation upon your return to sharing these experiences as they happen. Social media is what has made all this possible. And now, it’s about more than experiencing a new adventure, a different country or meeting a new group of people, it’s about sharing these experiences with the world at large.

Why social media marketing is important for your campaigns

There’s no denying the pull and influence social media has when it comes to travel marketing. If you’re a hotelier looking to fill rooms , an adventure company promoting unique activities or a destination , getting your message out to the masses via social media is essential. This messaging should be on your branded social channels and include partnering with other social creators, influencers and brands to spread your message to a highly qualified audience of travelers.

Every travel marketing campaign should include a social media component. Whether you’re looking for a full-blown custom campaign or a finely tuned and targeted approach , using Expedia Group’s social media channels can help you grow your reach exponentially.

Travelers are social: 87% of millennial travelers consult social media as one of their first stops for travel inspiration. This is your opportunity to build awareness around your brand, destination or experiences. And it’s important to grab travelers’ attention early in their search journey – 45% of social media’s influence on booking occurs at the beginning of their exploration.

Word of mouth is also integral to capitalizing on the benefits social media offers. Travelers looking to book a trip trust their friends, and with 97% of millennials sharing travel photos on social media there is a valuable amount of user-generated content that you can use to your advantage.

How to use social media for travel inspiration

With our social media solutions, you can take advantage of the social following and highly targeted audience of travelers across our brands like Expedia, Vrbo and Hotels.com to socialize your brand in ways that intrigues travelers. What we offer:

• Social integration packages let you transform standard ads into a native social experience across traveler’s social feeds.
• Instagram stories motivate travelers who are seeking inspiration and increase engagement with your brand.
• Co-branded videos capture traveler interest with compelling video content. Videos generate more engagement than static posts: 58% of consumers trust brands that have video than those that do not. Destination marketers have found that 75% of social media users take action after viewing video content.
• Custom social promotion lets you unlock the full potential of social storytelling across multiple platforms to create the most engaging social experience.

When you use our social media solutions, you also gain the benefit of tapping into loyal communities across all our brands. Expedia Group has more than 200 travel brand sites and Vrbo is our vacation rental brand – all of this provides an established entryway into engaging the right traveler.  

Since users on social media are so active and provide you with a vast amount of user-generated content, it’s equally important that you manage your social media accounts in a manner that uses best practices while also consistently engaging travelers. To help you build your social media brand, here are some tips to follow:

• Be authentic. There’s no need to treat your social posts like ads – that will simply turn travelers off. Being genuine will help you connect with more travelers and inspire them to book.
• Use video. “ Consumers, on average, spend about 323 minutes per week watching video content , and that is on mobile phones alone,” Mackenzie Bromley, director of social media at MMGY Global, says. It’s important that videos are short and succinct for social media – save longer-form videos for your website, presentation or events.
• Encourage travelers to use hashtags for your airline, hotel or destination – it’s an easy way for them to show off where they’ve been and what they’re doing, and it helps expand your social reach.
• Understand the value of user-generated content – our research shows that 32-39% of millennials won’t book a hotel without seeing some source of user-generated content and 95% of travelers read reviews before they book.
• Use your social channels as a customer-service tool. Comment on posts that applaud your brand, but also remember that it’s important to respond quickly to any issues travelers report. While you can’t prevent an ice storm from delaying a flight or a hurricane from hitting the coast, how you respond to travelers when they post about a less-than-ideal travel situation will show that you pay attention to travelers’ needs, no matter what the situation.  
• Know the differences between social channels and create content specific to each. Facebook isn’t like Instagram and TikTok isn’t like Twitter. Each platform is different, and your posts should reflect how users interact with the channel.
• Promote things that are unique to your brand, like loyalty programs. Encourage people to post to your channel or tag your brand and let them earn extra loyalty points.
• Share broad info about your destination, hotel or experience. For example, if you’re a hotelier, focus on more than rooms or hotel amenities and cast a wider net to include information about the area. Bonus: If you tag businesses in your area, they may return the favor and tag you in their social posts.
• Be funny. Humor can go a long way in inspiring travelers.

Hotel advertising that can reach any traveler, anywhere

Travelers looking to book a hotel use multiple channels to find their ideal place to stay, from social media to travel websites, and more. This is why it’s imperative that you know when — and where — to reach the right traveler. Whether you’re trying to reach early-bird or last-minute bookers, our targeting capabilities can help you connect with the right traveler at the right time.  

Social media is here to stay

Social media isn’t going away – and neither is travel. Travelers still have bucket lists, and they search and gather information about different destinations and experiences from the videos, photos and reviews they see across various social channels.

Our social media solutions can help you stand out with our highly engaged travel community. As travel demand continues to increase, and social media plays more of a role in inspiring, engaging and converting travelers to book travel, make sure that your brand is taking full advantage of what social media marketing can offer.

Contact us to learn more about our social media solutions and how we can help you reach your travel marketing goals.

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50+ Travel Questions That Will Increase Engagement on Instagram Stories

It is no secret that the Stories feature on Instagram can really drive your engagement. Not only that, but it allows you to get to know your followers better and what type of content they respond to.

The Questions sticker on Stories is my go-to to interact with followers, and I love to ask engaging questions about my favorite subject…TRAVEL! Within 24-hours of posting a travel question, I start reposting responses, tagging the account that answered. In turn, the follower I tagged may acknowledge the repost with a heart, a thank you, or even repost the answer on their stories, usually tagging my account as well.

Occasionally, a follower will send a direct message saying how much they enjoy answering the questions I ask and sometimes even state so in their own story repost of their answer. Since this is a popular way to interact and make people think about their own travels, I figured I would compile a list of my highest-performing questions that you can use!

Here is my top 50 travel questions list for you to use:.

1. What is the most memorable road trip you’ve been on?

2. Do you have a dream road trip you would like to do? If so, where?

3. What road trip snacks do you love to bring/buy?

4. If you are planning a road trip this year, where will you go?

5. Name a touristy place/tourist attraction you’ve been to that’s worth visiting.

6. Name a touristy place/tourist attraction you’ve been to that’s NOT worth visiting.

7. What’s the best thing you’ve brought back from your travels? (souvenir/other)

8. Name a strange/unusual tourist attraction where you live.

9. If traveling was back to normal, where would you go?

(This question is one I asked during the coronavirus quarantine and received dozens of responses.)

10. Name a travel-related film/tv show you enjoy.

11. What is your favorite hotel brand/chain or hotel in general?

12. What are you doing this weekend?

13. Where did you go on your last trip?

14. What holiday is only celebrated in your country?

(I love questions like this because it is one we can all learn from. Maybe it’s a holiday you and your followers have never heard of and want to learn more about. This is a great question to find out more about another country and its culture.)

15. Name a dish/dessert you keep dreaming about after having it in your travels.

(People love talking about food, so be prepared for a lot of engagement on this one!)

16. What’s the most incredible natural phenomenon you have witnessed?

( This about your own experiences. Have you seen the northern lights, a geyser, or Niagara Falls? Chances are your followers have seen some pretty amazing things too, some things you may not have ever heard of. This question can help grow your bucket list as well as those of your followers.)

17. What is the most dangerous/adventurous thing you have done in your travels?

18. What is your favorite website/app to book travel?

19. If you won a trip to go anywhere, where would you go?

20. What is your favorite place to go in the city you currently live?

21. Where did you go on your first international trip?

22. Where did your family take you for vacation when you were a child?

23. What is your favorite body of water?

24. In what place have you seen the best night sky? (i.e. stars, northern lights, etc.)

25. What is your favorite beach?

26. Where is the most memorable trip you’ve been on so far?

27. What is your favorite travel accessory/gadget?

28. What is your drink of choice on an airplane?

29. What is the strangest/most interesting thing you’ve eaten in your travels?

30. What has travel taught you?

31. What is your favorite travel quote?

32. Name a place you feel has been affected by over-tourism.

33. Where is the best hike you’ve ever done?

34. Where have you seen the best sunset?

35. Where is the most environmentally-conscious place you’ve visited?

36. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?

37. Why do you travel?

38. What tour company have you used in your travels?

39. What is your favorite airline?

40. Where were you born? Where did you grow up?

(A great question to get to know your followers better.)

41. Where do you wish you were right now?

42. What is your favorite city for architecture?

43. What is your favorite city for food?

44. What do you do for exercise when you travel?

45. What camera equipment do you bring with you when you travel?

46. In how many cities have you lived?

47. How long was your longest trip?

48. What is your favorite airport you’ve traveled through?

49. Who is your favorite travel companion?

(You can take this one a step further and have them tag the person. That way, when you share, you can tag both your follower and their travel buddy who may end up following you if they aren’t already!)

50. Respond with a travel-related emoji & I will repost a photo from your feed.

(This one is my absolute favorite and I use it often. Why? Well, everyone wants to get their account seen, gain more followers and increase engagement on Instagram. Sharing is a fantastic way to showcase some of your followers’ amazing travel photos and, oftentimes, they will repost one of your photos in return. I have had followers message me to say thanks and that they received several more followers because I shared one of their photos. It is a win-win!)

Bonus: Polls!

Using the poll sticker is another fun way to help drive engagement, and they are quick and easy for people to scroll through your Stories and answer as there are only two choices.

Here are a few high-engagement travel-related polls I have used in my own stories with the “This or That” theme:

• Solo Travel vs. Group Travel
• Travel by Car vs Travel by Plane
• London vs. Paris
• Beach vs. Mountains
• Adventure Trip vs. Relaxing Trip
• Plan It vs. Wing It
• Sightseeing vs. Shopping
• Tourist Spots vs. Hidden Gems
• Airbnb vs. Hotel
• Local Street Food vs. Fancy Restaurant

If you use Instagram questions, it is always a great idea to repost answers and tag the account that answered. If you reshare others’ content, yours will most likely be reshared as well, increasing followers and engagement. Remember, Instagram is a community and sharing is caring! Check out my Instagram page here .

Feel free to bookmark this list for your future travel-related Instagram questions and polls. And please share any other travel-related questions you have had great engagement on in your social media posts in the comments.

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On social media, the content you post is critical to engaging your audience and creating a solid fan base. Yet, many travel professionals struggle with knowing what to post. Whether you are wondering what to say on Twitter, Facebook, blogs or any other channel, here are some travel content ideas to help get the creative juices flowing:

I’ve said it many MANY times : travel is an experiential product and the best way to get people thinking about travel is to show them fun places to go and fun things they can do while they are there. If you can, share personal or client photos of destinations you want to sell. They don’t need to be professional shots and often work even better if you’re in the photo doing something silly! I’ve had many travel agents report that they sell at least one or two packages they wouldn’t have otherwise every time they post photos of a trip they took.

If you don’t have photos of your own,  Flickr  is a great spot to find amazing shots of every type of destination around the world. Do a quick search and link (don’t steal!) to particularly amazing photography that you think your audience would enjoy.

Videos are also a great way to inspire customers to travel and usually works even better than photos because of their interactive nature. Once again, you don’t always need a professionally shot video to attract attention. A home video of a particularly memorable moment, useful information (like the view of a new cruise ship cabin), fun activities or footage of a new resort will do the trick. Got a knack for humor or publicly humiliating yourself without worry? Great! Use it to your advantage when you create your videos. The funnier the better!For those who are a little camera shy, don’t despair!  YouTube  is a great resource for videos of all kinds.  With a little imagination you can search and find some pretty amazing clips.

3. Useful links

The latest traveler alerts, a list of recommended items to pack, articles about the hottest trends in travel – think about what would be useful for your readership to know and you’ve got some sharable content. This is your chance to show off your expertise as a travel professional and provide your potential customers with information that they may not find otherwise.

Not sure where to find this information? Blogs, news sites, and trade press have articles that can fit the bill. You can also use  Google Alerts  to monitor the web for articles on just about any topic.

4. Blog posts

This one should go without saying, but too many people don’t think about it. If you publish regular blog posts, PLEASE remember to post links to them on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc if you have accounts there. Most blog platforms will allow you to connect your blog to other social channels automatically if you have trouble remembering to post.

5. Destination fun facts

Everyone loves a good bit of trivia or little known facts! It’s entertaining, informative and can again help position you as an expert in your field. Many tourist boards and hotel properties have fun facts available through their marketing department. Just ask to see if they can help you out.  Otherwise, the web is always a good alternative!

Engage your audience by asking them questions about things like their favourite vacation spot, what type of perks they like to get from their agent, what makes their holiday a perfect one, etc. Get them talking to you AND use the opportunity to do a little behind-the-scenes market research to find out what you can do to win and keep their business.

7. Event announcements

Are you attending your local travel show or hosting a consumer evening? Let the world know where you will be and when! Invite your fan base to come see you.  You might be surprised by how many of them show up…and bring a friend!

8. Top 10 lists

Quick, useful and always a good way of giving quick recommendations on destinations to see, things to pack, attractions to visit and more. You can either compile your own top 10 or link to someone else’s. Bonus points if you create your own with photos or video!

9. Community work updates

People like to know that you care about your community.  If you or your team partake in community service or charitable work, share information like updates about your latest donation, photos of your team volunteering, or news about your favourite charity.

10. Contest announcements & updates

Contests are ALWAYS a popular thing. If you choose to run one, you can build anticipation and buzz by posting regular updates. Whether you talk about the prizes, highlight funny entries, countdown the days until the winner is announced or something else, you’re sure to get attention (and probably new followers/fans/readers) really quickly.

11. Travel updates

Here’s another great opportunity to showcase your expertise as a travel expert. Share updates about your favourite suppliers (new bathtubs in every cabin? Service upgrades at a resort? New designer bag with every purchase? Ok…maybe not the last one, but you get the point) or important travel updates about specific destinations (everything from new passport requirements to travel warnings).

12. Ship inspection information

If you are a cruise expert and visit ships while they are in port, by all means, share pictures and reviews with your fans.  They WANT to hear your expert advice to know which ships are worth sailing.

13. Fam trip reports

I know too many agencies who require these reports from staff and then stuff them in a folder where they will never be seen again. You are experiencing travel while on these Fam trips and NEED to share those experiences with your fan base. This can be in the shape of photos, videos or blog updates. It doesn’t really matter. Either way, tell them what you liked, didn’t like, recommend and find amazing. If you do a good job, you may get a booking or two out of the experience.

14. Client stories

Ever get an email from a client who tells you how GREAT their trip was or wants to let you know about something funny that happened? If so, ask for their permission to share it with everyone. It acts as a testimonial for you and can be entertaining all at once.

15. Answers to common questions

If there are travel questions you get regularly, use the opportunity to share the answer with a wider audience. It may even prompt your fan base to ask you more questions and start engaging. Again…show everyone that you know your stuff and the bookings will follow!

16. Opinions

If something is happening in the travel community and you have an opinion to share, you can use your social channel to do so.  However, I would caution you to think twice about being excessively controversial or political as it may turn some people away. Some controversy is ok, but too much can be hard to handle for some people.

17. Travel tips

These can be quick tips or longer blog posts about your recommendations. Just like the fun facts, top 10 lists, and other ideas listed here, they help position you are the expert that your are while being useful.

18. Behind-the-scenes updates

If your teams is planning an event or preparing something big, there is always interest in seeing you have fun behind-the-scenes.  Be creative here with photos, videos, stories and staff comments.

19. Favourite quotes

Inspiring travel quotes are fairly easy to find (Google to the rescue!) and quick to post. If you are out of inspiration for the day, a quick quote can keep the engagement going with minimal effort.

20. Staff picks

Get your whole team involved in recommending hotels, resorts, cruises, activities or whatever else you can think of. This can be really fun for everyone and helps showcase your agency as a whole.

21. Interviews

Think written or video interviews with people on your team, a destination representative, hotel partner, etc.

22. Funny Stories

Whether it’s a cartoon, a funny video, an anecdote or the joke of the week, humor always goes a long way!

23. Updates from the road

This is where you bring out your inner journalist.  If you have access to an internet connection or a smartphone while on the road travelling or attending events, you can provide live updates.  This works particularly well on Twitter or Facebook where updates can be quick and short. Blog posts take some thought, but you could still provide one update per day once you have a chance to slow down a bit in the evening.

24. Milestones

Did you just get a new specialist certification? Did your agency win an important award? Maybe you got featured in the local newspaper. It’s time to let everyone know so they can share in the joy and find out how fabulous you really are!

25. Travel deals

I saved this one for last because it seems like the most obvious choice, yet it’s not always the best one. Depending on your sales goals, you may not want to attract the bargain hunters looking for the best deal. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if deals are a good choice for you.

It’s not as hard as it may seem. Many of the ideas above are already available within your agency or on the web.  A simple Google search or using  Google Alerts  can help you stay in the loop and find interesting content quite easily and without gobbling up your precious time.

Now it’s your turn…

Have you had success with any of the ideas above? Or perhaps I’ve missed a few good ones that you’d like to share?

How Social Media Has Changed Travel

What kind of impact has social media had on the travel and tourism industry? Find out 14 ways social media has changed travel.

To say that we, as a global culture, are obsessed with our phones and scrolling through social media is a vast understatement. It’s a worldwide addiction that you need only lift your head and look around to verify. Social media has changed the way we shop, date, communicate, work… and social media has changed the way we travel! 

As an intrepid traveler, I’ve roamed the world with my husband for over 15 years. We’ve spent the last three of those years as full-time travel writers and videographers, and the change in the travel sector is glaringly obvious to me in my personal travels. Social media has changed travel in just about every way imaginable, or so it seems. But, what do the numbers say? Is it really what it appears? Let’s take a dive into all the ways social media has impacted the travel industry—the good, bad, and the ugly.

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Social Media Impact on Travel

According to an article by Forbes Magazine , there are more than 300,000,000 posts just on Instagram that are hashtagged with the word “travel.” That breaks down to over 100,000 posts every single day for more than 8 years. That doesn’t even come close to the true amount when you take in those who don’t utilize hashtags or those who chose one of the thousands of other travel-related tags to use. Now, given that 4.76 billion people are social media users as of 2023, according to a new study by We Are Social and Hootsuite , that’s a whole lot of people looking at travel-related material. 

Millennials, or those who were pretty much born and raised with the ability to Google, are now the most populous group on the planet , and YPulse puts their spending power at 2.5 trillion dollars in a 2020 survey . Given that millennials also travel more than previous generations and that 97% of millennials use social media while traveling, the effects of social media platforms on the travel industry are no-brainers! Let’s take a look at a few specific ways that social media has changed the landscape of the travel industry.

Ways Social Media Has Changed Travel and Tourism

1. social media has increased general travel knowledge..

There’s no doubt about it; we now have the travel world at our fingertips. With Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok basically operating as image and video search engines, we can look up any place in the world and see it in detail in seconds. Plus, the more you look at travel, the more social media sites know that you like travel, and the more pictures and videos they flood your feed with… brilliant how that works!

With hundreds of thousands of travel influencers out there (plus regular folks sharing their vacations), the amount of information on specific destinations now on your everyday scroll is mind-blowing! According to a study done in Economics journa l, a whopping 91.35% of people surveyed were turned on to a travel destination by pictures or information they saw on social media. Long gone are the days of booking a vacation to your parent’s favorite spot or a place that is famous in your region. Now, travelers are privy to detailed information about faraway lands, complete with edited photos to lure them to wander. 

2. Social media has increased accessibility to travel.

With so many social media influencers, marketing ads, and budget-travel experts helping us out now, worldwide travel is much more accessible to most people. It still blows my mind how many older people in my life assume that travel is exorbitantly expensive or that they would never be able to see the world. I hear it all the time! Those in the age group that routinely uses social media know better. 

Budget tip websites, travel hacking blogs, and YouTube travel gurus have taught us how to see the world on a dime, and for that, I’m very grateful. On a personal note, I can attest that I spend approximately half the amount of money traveling the world full-time as I spent living in the United States. I am able to do this based partially on lessons learned from years of travel, but it’s also heavily based on the information that I glean from social media and the internet in general. 

3. Social media has helped change the travel demographic.

Until the Millennial generation and the rise of social media, big travel experiences were mostly reserved for special occasions—a yearly family vacation or honeymoon, for instance. Travel was seen as something you could do (hopefully) when you retired. That’s no longer the case. Millennials, who are currently right in the heart of their career and rearing families, are traveling more than any other generation. Gen Z isn’t far behind. We’re traveling as much during the busy years of our lives as Boomers are during their retirement. 

Research shows that while millennials do travel more, they are also more likely to travel for different reasons than just leisure. Bleisure travel, or the mix of business and leisure, has become a huge part of the tourism industry in recent years as more and more jobs go remote. Social media certainly helps fuel this phenomenon with countess profiles touting the perks of the digital nomad life and how to make money while traveling. 

4. Social media has increased travel FOMO.

Oh, FOMO, the fear of missing out… social media has created an envy and a desire to experience what we see on our screens for ourselves. We see our friends and family and all those influencers on some remote beach, enjoying a local film festival or trying exotic foods in a street market, and it causes many viewers to wish they were doing the same. This obviously doesn’t apply to everyone who sees the images. My own father and sister have zero desire to travel the world despite my career. They couldn’t care less. But for many, this knowledge that these amazing experiences are out there and that they are missing out on them is a primary driving force to travel.

5. Social media has created a false travel universe.

Speaking to that travel envy… is it really what it seems? The simple answer is no! A study by Alliance Global has shown that 36% of Millennials surveyed confessed to posting misleading and false information to glamorize a destination or trip. Why? Why would you deliberately mislead your followers? When asked, 65% of the deceivers stated that they did it to make friends and family envious. Fifty-one percent said they also do it to compete with other social media posters. The latter stat is probably the influencer crowd speaking. 

With TikTok and YouTube providing monetization to large accounts, there is a push to present the most eye-catching content, and that involves cropping out graffiti, editing the water color with Lightroom, only photographing certain aspects of a city or location, and, sometimes, outright lying about an experience. This especially goes if you’re representing a hotel or tourism board, which many influencers are being paid to do. According to stats provided by Stackla , social media users do say they make travel decisions based on user-generated content (UGC) far more than content by travel influencers. So, there’s an awareness that people are being paid to present this info, and people do take that into account. However, according to the numbers, your friends and family might be fudging the facts, too!

6. Social media has increased location targeting.

Social media has changed the locations that people travel to. Let’s take a look at the Riviera Maya in Mexico as an example. Cancun has been a top tourist destination for decades, and Playa del Carmen is popular with cruisers, but most people, until recent years, would not have heard of little Tulum. Now, you’ve undoubtedly seen scores of couples on bikes posing in front of the “Follow that dream” street sign or the Ven a La Luz sculpture outside Ahau Hotel.

According to Travel Pulse , Tulum received around 250,000 visitors in 2017. This was after being listed as an up-and-comer with TripAdvisor in 2016. In 2022, after those couple of spots became Instagram sensations, the Cancun Sun reports that Tulum has had years with more than 2 million visitors. That is quite a growth spurt! 

7. Social media has caused socioeconomic changes due to tourism.

While the uptake in tourism dollars certainly increases the overall GDP of popular destinations, it has also caused some difficulties. Now, social media is not the only reason there has been an increase in travel across the board, but it plays a huge part. Some of the negative effects we’ve seen from this include locals being driven from affordable housing so that Airbnbs can be created for tourists and the increase of poverty in popular tourist destinations. Many of the destinations that are hashtag-targeted blow up in popularity much faster than the local population and infrastructure can support.

Let’s take a look at Mexico again. There have been several online articles written about disputes and frustration within Mexico City. Locals are reportedly being evicted from their apartment complexes because owners are turning them into more profitable vacation rentals and homes for digital nomads. According to Euronews, the number of legal evictions increased by 27% from the year 2020 to 2021, and that doesn’t even include non-legal rental agreements. Tulum too has seen an uptake in poverty levels attributed to migrant workers coming in to build luxury hotels and vacation rentals. These workers are reportedly living in poverty in temporary (and illegal) squatter villages. According to the Cancun Sun , between the years of 2015-2020, at the height of its tourism surge, Tulum’s poverty rate almost doubled, the highest numbers recorded for the Yucatan region.

8. Social media has changed travel motivation.

Not only has social media contributed to more people traveling, but it has also changed the reasons why people travel. According to an article by Travel Pulse and statistics by Jet Cost , a survey of 4,000 Americans aged 22-37 stated that 21% admitted their primary reason for travel was to get snaps for their social media page. Sixty-one percent said they would not consider a vacation destination where they could not take and post pictures. That means approximately 1/5th of Millennial travelers are doing it for the Gram.

9. Social media has changed the travel planning process.

It’s a rare occasion these days that a perspective traveler busts out a traditional travel guidebook (although you should). Travelers use Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as search engines, pulling up and following hashtags and accounts that specialize in their intended destination. We save posts that give pertinent information, create Instagram albums with all the specific attractions we want to see, and take notes from YouTube listicles. Before long, the whole trip is prepared in photo form, all logged on our smartphones.

According to YouGov’s 2022 Travel and Tourism Report , 39% of Gen Z tourists state that their primary source of information when planning a vacation is social media. Many more use it as a secondary source or for inspiration. This is an increase over previous generations, so it looks like the future of travel will rely even more heavily on the influence of UGC on social media. 

10. Social media has changed customer service.

Diana Trowbridge, vice president of marketing for Marriott, via an interview with Travel Pulse states that customer service is much more difficult than it used to be. Hotels must not only rely on the in-person experience, but they must provide a comprehensive social media profile, increasing their burden. 

Customer service agents must respond quickly to complaints submitted via Twitter, WhatsApp, or Facebook in order to avoid negative reviews that impact their future traveler’s perceptions. Hotels are increasingly responsible for not just shelter and a pleasant stay but a profile-pic-worthy, envy-inducing experience. It’s no longer good enough to be a great hotel; you must present as a great hotel. 

More Than Hotels

Hotels aren’t the only ones that must adapt. Tour companies, restaurants, and attractions that don’t utilize social media in a savvy way will likely struggle, at least with international travelers. Having a social media account is no longer enough, either. Social media strategists are constantly evolving, researching, and adapting their strategies to target the needs and interests of travelers. This might include featuring posts on your business’s environmental footprint, your ethics around animal tourism, and what you’re doing to be inclusive of all cultures and people groups. All of these aspects (and many more) and how they are presented to the public via social media affect the bottom line. 

11. Social media has decreased the element of surprise.

Since the rise of social media, it’s hard to travel to a destination that you haven’t seen before. As we’ve proved, most travelers are choosing destinations based on what they’ve seen online or on social media, and they’re researching these places thoroughly before making a decision to travel. Since there’s a known problem with influencer exaggeration and heavily doctored photos, smart travelers are digging for the truth, so by the time they actually visit the destination, they likely know much more about it than they would have if they had taken this trip 20 years ago. 

There’s a balance to traveling wisely—finding the best deals, experiences, and locations and having some sense of spontaneity. I often fight this battle myself. In essence, I’m a budget traveler and believe that I get more out of the experience when I’ve researched the culture, traditions, local restaurants, and authentic experiences. However, it’s always a balance between a detailed itinerary and leaving room for spontaneous day trips and evenings spent with new local friends. Sometimes, the amount of information I know about my destination takes away from the wanderlust and awe of stumbling upon the unknown. 

12. Social media has changed the actual travel experience.

I can speak to this one personally, and you probably can, too. When I first started traveling heavily, around 2009 or so, there were definitely places where you waited in line, and there were tourists with camera phones, but nothing like today. Recently, my husband and I took a road trip through Turkiye, and two specific spots were glaring examples of this change.

The number of photographers with giant angel wings ready and waiting to photograph young girls along the white limestone cliffs of the natural pools at Pamukkale was staggering! We sat in the blue water pools as TikTok influencers performed sexy dances around us, and women in flowing gowns and wings posed at our backs to get that perfect shot. 

From there, we visited Cappadocia, and as we soared over the incredible landscape in a hot air balloon, dozens of women and couples were shooting with local photographers below us. There are businesses that specialize in renting elaborate, flowy dresses and vintage cars just for these Instagram photoshoots. That is certainly something you would not have seen ten years ago. 

It’s quite common now to wait in long lines just to get that Insta-snap at places like Norway’s Trolltunga, the Ahau Hotel sculpture in Tulum, or sunrise pics at Angkor Wat. It’s common for us to be walking down a cobblestone street in Europe (probably vlogging) and catch a TikTok dance being filmed in front of us. In short, waiting and taking turns to get the shot is now an everyday part of travel in many parts of the world. 

13. Social media has created new travel industry jobs.

Social media has undoubtedly created a whole new arena of jobs, including digital marketing specialists working with hotels, professional UGC creators, and YouTube video makers. We aren’t just talking side hustles, either. Social media influencers are pulling in massive paydays. The most successful ones have retirement funds, investment portfolios, and multiple properties all funded by their lucrative social media contracts. 

Hotels, resorts, and tourism boards now have social media managers who work with the traditional marketing team to handle their public appearance. A realm of photography has developed that focuses solely on producing professional-looking staged photos for Airbnb properties. Tourism boards are hiring influencers to produce content that draws visitors to their cities. It’s a huge business. 

14. Social media has increased awareness of travel downfalls.

Social media has helped raise awareness of questionable aspects of the travel industry. Multiple accounts, for instance, have called out and shamed animal tourism businesses that do not treat their animals with care and love. Social media has assisted in massive beach cleanups in India and many other locations, organizing efforts for the masses who came out to help. Social media has shone a light on the sometimes unacceptable behavior of influencers as well. Whole accounts are dedicated to embarrassing travelers who treat the environment flippantly or are unsafe in their attempts to capture photos. While some of these accounts can be a bit harsh, hopefully in the long run, social media spotlights will lead to more culturally, environmentally, and socially responsible travelers. 

Keep Scrolling!

Whether you love it or hate it, there’s no doubt that social media has changed travel in just about every way possible. While some of the effects are certainly negative, social media has also opened up swaths of opportunities for whole new generations to travel the world their way. With the amount of information now at our fingertips, it’s possible for every kind of traveler to find the trip that suits them perfectly and aligns with their ethics, too.

Have you ever found your next vacation destination from a social media post? Let us know in the comments! 

Social media isn’t the only way to find a great trip! We happen to love providing you with amazing options via our travel blog. Our writers are avid travelers and experts in their crafts. Check out our travel section for tons of amazing trip ideas! 

Looking for a more meaningful way to travel? Take some cues from “ Travel With Purpose: Long-Term Volunteer Opportunities .”

Frequently Asked Questions

Social media impacts travel negatively by overrunning popular destinations that don’t have the infrastructure to support the masses and by presenting false information about destinations .

Yes! According to Economics Journal, 91.35 % of people say they have been inspired to travel because of a social media post . Now, the sky seems to be the limit when it comes to traveling.

With millennials traveling more than any other generation and 97% of them using social media , daily scrolling exposes millions of prospective travelers to inspiration each day.

Social media apps like Instagram are used for travel inspiration and planning . Google Maps and Translate are wonderful for directions and language, and Let’s Roam has amazing scavenger hunts!

Technology has positively impacted travel by increasing knowledge and accessibility . Travel apps provide inspiration, directions, language help, and local guides for food and attractions .

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More than 50 Active Facebook Travel Groups to Join in 2024

Facebook groups are valuable forums for connecting with others in your local community or around the globe. Being in the travel niche especially I've found Facebook groups great places to ask locals questions, meet up with friends when I'm traveling solo, vent about travel mishaps, and generally have a good laugh.

I've met up with over 500 women from travel Facebook groups in countries such as Canada, the Netherlands, the UAE, the US, and more!

Here are the top active Facebook groups of every travel niche that you can check out and join:

Travel Facebook Groups anyone can joinn

• Bucket List Beasts  – “We share tips, articles, personal stories, photos, videos, and plan bucket-list meet-ups! But whatever we do, we’ll make sure you don’t end up with a life full of “coulda, woulda, shouldas!” Your new life starts NOW! The only question is – Are you ready?! YOLO, baby!”
• Conscious Travel Community – This group is for self-aware, positive travelers to come together to connect, discuss, ask for advice and inspire each other around all things travel related!
• Travel Community – This travel community is a place for like-minded people to engage with others that love to discuss travel.

Gen Z/Young Travel Facebook groups

• Young Travelers Network  – A global community of Gen Z, 20-somethings, college students, teens, and Zillennials, who love travel! Whether you've never left your home town or you've been to 40 countries, this is your tribe. Connect with other young travelers, share stories, engage in discussions, and meet up around the world!

Female Only Travel Facebooks Groups

• Global Girls United  – Global Girls United is for girls alike who eat, sleep, breathe t ravel! Share travel tips, deals, stories, etc. A very casual, off-the-cuff, fun group. We have zero tolerance for assholes.
• The Solo Female Travel Network   – A space for all female solo travelers to be able to come for not just travel advice and reliable hostel recommendations. Ask if that local was being creepy or if it was cultural, get support for homesickness, show off the amazing photos from your last trip, tell stories, and share whatever is on your mind. 
• Solo Women Travelers   – This is a fun, supportive group of diverse, wonderful women who love to travel alone whether by plane, train, RV, boat, bicycle, backpacking, motorcycle or car … or dreaming about traveling solo. I want this group for everything we women want to talk about… from leaving behind old lifestyles and embracing new ones, to travel wardrobes, music, travel plans, gadgets, tips and tricks, families, our fears, and our triumphs!
• Solo Women Travel Tribe  – We are here to LEARN, INSPIRE, SHARE & CONNECT with fellow Solo Women Travellers from all over the world.
• Girls Who Travel  –  Girls Who Travel is an education and empowerment network for travelers who identify as women, trans, and/or genderqueer. Our mission is to empower women travelers to explore beyond their boundaries and to create a more inclusive world.
• Curvy Girls Travel Guide  – This group was founded to provide a space for curvy and plus-size women to collaborate and connect on all things travel. Please feel free to dive in and introduce yourself, ask questions, share experiences and meet new friends.
• GirlsLOVETravel   – Girls LOVE Travel is a global community of active and aspiring female travelers providing resources and empowerment to one another through safety, socializing and support. 
• Conde Naste's: Women Who Travel   – a place where all self-identifying female travel lovers can join in the conversation about what it means to travel as a woman today. 
• We Are Travel Girls  – We Are Travel Girls is a global travel community created to inspire, connect, educate and empower female travelers around the world.
• Over 60 Solo Women Travel – This group is for Over 60 Women who like to travel on their own, solo, without a travel companion. The majority of members enjoy the solo experience or are novices seeking advice and encouragement to travel solo.

Male Only Travel Groups

• Guys LOVE Travel   – Guys LOVE Travel is also a place to share your adventures and gain extra exposure for your travel photography, filmmaking or blogging by sharing your social media links with your posts.

Family/Mom Travel Groups

• Families Who Love to Travel – This page is a safe space for parents to exchange travel ideas, itinerary suggestions, questions, concerns, and experiences.
• Traveling with Kids Worldwide – This group is for parents who love to travel with their kids and who want to share their experiences, tips, and tricks, to ask questions, and to be inspired to go on more adventures! I share travel deals and do giveaways!
• MOMs (Girls LOVE Travel ®) – #gLt MOMs is an official SubGroup of the Girls LOVE Travel Facebook group community. This is a space for moms to discuss all things travel and how to travel with your family!
• Wandering Moms – Women who want to literally give their children the world. We are a group that provides support and resources for women who are interested in traveling the world or living abroad with children in tow.
• Tiny Globetrotters: Travel The World With Kids – Have kids and still want to travel? This group is for you! Let's share destination ideas, tips for traveling with tiny humans and trip reports. We all have one thing in common, the love of travel which now includes kids!
• Travel The World With Your Kids – This is a group for anyone who wants to travel the world with kids. Long term, short term, full time, part-time, fast, slow… Whatever works for you. Ask your questions, meet other travel families who travel and get advice.
• Dreamers, Drifters, and Diapers: Have Kids, Will Travel – This is a group for people who LOVE to travel and are looking for helpful tips, tricks, and hacks to make for a more pleasurable experience all-around. It caters specifically to parents and soon-to-be parents looking to brave the friendly skies, roads, rails, or seas with little ones in tow.

Cheap Flight Deals Facebook groups

• Secret Flying – Finding your cheap flights around the world.
• TravelFree group – cheap flights and more – Just the hottest travel deals, error fares.
• TravelPirates Community  – Do you want to travel the world and not spend a fortune? Do you want to explore the places where tourists don’t go? Want to meet other travelers? Like rum? Our group is to be used for travel research and recommendations.
• Travel On A Budget Official – On A Budget is a social community for problem solvers and money savers. Here at On A Budget we help members to save time and money, offering a safe space to learn and share new ideas.
• The Best Travel Deals – Here you’ll find travel deals discovered and shared by Travel + Leisure editors. This is also a safe space for sharing your own travel deals and connecting with fellow travelers.
• TravelFree group – cheap flights and more – Just the hottest travel deals, error fares!!!Feel free to ask tips, suggestions 🙂

Travel Bloggers/Entrepreneurs & Digital Nomads groups

• Female Travel Bloggers   – We are a supportive online co mmunity for travel blogging women to expand their reach, learn about blogging, and make meaningful connections in the travel blogging world. If you’re looking for a tribe of badass women who want to help each other make their blogs a success, you found it! 
• Female Lifestyle & Travel Bloggers  – A fully inclusive blogging group for female lifestyle bloggers a nd female travel bloggers aimed towards open discussions, a supportive community, and sharing blogging resources. 
• Black Travel Movement Travel Blogger Community   – The Black Travel Movement Blogger Community is a dedicated space  for travel Bloggers of color to post links to their TRAVEL BLOGS and articles to share with the Black Travel Movement Community.
• Digital Nomads Around the World – This is a place for digital nomads to share advice and tips rela ted to living the digital nomad lifestyle.
• BLOGGERS AND TRAVELERS   – A worldwide group of travel lovers, blo ggers, photographers, and writers. Some of us also write and maintain blogs on a wide variety of subjects. Join our new travel forum 
• Digital Nomads – The Solo Female Traveler Network   – This grou p is a sub-group of The Solo Female Traveler Network, specifically for connecting solo female travel who work on the road to trade links, social share circles, get advice, advertise for jobs, and share experiences.
• Female Digital Nomads  – This group was started with the goal to unite, inspire and inform us digital babes that are wandering the globe. Do you have any questions about setting up an online business? How to run your travel blog? About where to travel next? This is the place to come and ask them.

Black Travel Groups

• Black Travel Movement   – Black Travel Movement is a community of friends and family who s hare an interest in cultivating new friendships and epic experiences through international worldwide travel. As a member of the BTM family you have a connection to a wide range of new and seasoned travelers who are anxious to join and share travel experiences.
• Nomad•ness Travel Tribe   – NOMADNESS is an award-winning travel lifestyle brand. They represe nt the underrepresented demographic in mainstream travel through NOMADNESS Travel Tribe.  
• Black Elite Travelers – B.E.T.'s mission is to create networking and travel opportunitie s, as well as professional, meet up, dating/non-dating vacation opportunities for like individuals looking to enhance travel knowledge, travel partners or network worldwide in the dawn of a new century celebrating African American freedom to move around the globe.
• Melanin Globe – Mela nin Globe ® is a global travel group founded upon the basis of bringing individuals from all walks of life, regardless of cultural difference, together. Here you are encouraged to immerse yourself into “all things travel!”. 
• Black Folks Travel Too! ᵀᴹ   –  A forum to share travel photos, videos, information, and recommendations. So whether you've traveled internationally, domestically or are just discovering the treasures near your home, please share.
• Black Travel Lounge – Black Travel Lounge is a space for Black travelers, black owned travel companies, and travel agents to share their experiences and knowledge.to find inspiration, share experiences and travel tips/hacks.
• Black People Travel & Network – This group was created for the love of traveling and networking. Meeting new people and learning new cultures. Supporting each other/ Black businesses. Let us share and inspire each other.
• (AA&M) African-Americans and Minority Travelers Backers and Road Trippers – Encouraging African Americans to Travel the world cheaply. With a Back Packing, Road Tripping and local travel. See the world. From international to nation.
• Black Travel Experience, Group Trips and More – This group is to help travelers find group trips, travel agents, and share experiences.

Black Women Only

• Black Women Travel – Bringing black women who travel the world together.
• Black Girls Travel Too – A unique and dynamic travel club with a fervent belief that women, specifically black women, being deserving of a seat at the table. Whether that table is at a street side café in Morocco or just off the coast of Zanzibar in the tiny fishing village of Stone Town, WE have the POWER and PRIVILEGE to choose.
• Black Girl Travel Movement   – Empowering * Inspiration * Sisterhood * Travel. Black Girls On The Go is an international organization dedicated to exposing black women to the healing power of travel. 
• Black Women Who Love To Travel – I enjoy seeing women of color celebrating life to the fullest and seeing their travels. This can also give others a chance to get ideas and share their traveling memories in a group. 

Black Men Only

• Black Travel Movement Men's group   – The BTM Men's Group is a place where the brothers and men of the Black Travel Movement can meet to discuss travel issues from a Black Man's perspective. Feel free to discuss any and all topics freely.
• The Black & Abroad® Man: A Group for Black Men Who Travel the World   – Welcome to Black & Abroad MAN, a group where black men with a common interest in international world travel can share their travel goals, experiences, recommendations, travel hacks, and more. Connect with other like-minded brothers by becoming a member.

LGBT Travel Groups

• LGBTQ Travel – Welcome to LGBTQ Travel. This group is for everyone who loves to travel any chance you get. From flying to another city for a pride celebration to traveling across the world for an adventure. A place to network and share your travel tips, advice and maybe find a couch to crash on.
• Man Expeditions ( Community Travel Group for Guys)   – The primary goal of this club is to help bring like-minded guys together through positive adventure travel initiatives and to build new meaningful friendships while giving back to wildlife & environmental conservation projects through our participation
• Lesbian Travel   – Welcome to Lesbian (& GBTQ) Travel This is a place where we can all connect. This is a safe haven if you are looking for travel tips, advice, or just want to meet some of your fellow queer travelers.
• Pride (Girls LOVE Travel ®   – #gLt Pride is an official subgroup of Girls LOVE Travel to have everyone have a place to talk and gab about experiences while traveling the globe and either being directly part of the LGBTQ community or supporting as an ally.
• Lesbian Travel Club   – This group is for discussion of Lesbian Travel.
• O&A Gay Travel   – A new gay travel web site with vacation options never before targeted to the gay and LGBT consumer; National Park Tours, California Wine Country, Pacific Coast bike tours, culinary vacations, Alaska adventure cruises, and so much more coming soon.

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Is there a good group for travelers (both male and female in one group ) over 50?

I’m not an expert in that arena, my audience is recent grads and 20’s, so I don’t know! I’m sorry!

Thanks, these are so helpful! I am curious if you have ever come across any legit, alive Brown/South Asian travel groups, would love to know some. 🙂

I’m looking for a Facebook group for individuals traveling on a safari to Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar or something close. All groups that I find are companies promoting their travel tours.

I’d recommend maybe looking for expat communities in Kenya or Tanzania. What’s your goal with the Facebook group?

Great list, I would also recommend the Travel Fashion Girl group, awesome for packing tips.

Thanks for the great list. Can you recommend any working holiday face book pages? I’m thinking of starting one.

I don’t know of any! If you make it, I will add it to the list 🙂

Great list! You should include Black Travel Lounge! https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlackTL

I ran across your web site. I loved it. I’m a 68 married female. I want to travel different states in the United States. My husband does not want to travel real bad. I would like to meet women who loves to travel also. What is the best Facebook travel site for that.

I think Girls Love Travel, and Solo Female Travel Network will be great for what you’re looking for!

Excellent suggestions!

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23 Travel Groups That You Need to Join On Social Media That Will Make Your Solo Trips Magical!

Having said that travelling with family, friends or bae can be fun, not all live by this mantra. Travelling solo gives a kind of liberty to explore offbeat places or try an adventure sport which is otherwise a mighty “no-no” when travelling with friends, family or even with bae. Although the thought of travelling solo is alluring, it comes it with its set of disadvantages. And that is where these backpackers come to your rescue. They will create a customized itinerary, have been known to ensure the safety of solo women travellers and some even cater to “only women” travellers!

Here's the list that will help you plan your next solo trip:

1. wovoyage.

Type of Travellers: Exclusive all-women travel community

Type of Trip: The World is our oyster

Motto: “We want to empower solo female travellers and bring together female guides, drivers and entrepreneurs.”

2. The Backpacker Co – “travel junkies and travel addicts who have personally backpacked to the locations”

Type of Travellers: Anyone can join

Motto: “FOMO no more! We, at The Backpacker Co, LOVE what we do. We have been there, done that, witnessed the touristy things, and also experienced it like a local. Let us take care of the planning whilst you fall in love with the places. Experience it like a local, break free from the mundane because #whydoboring.”

3. The Land of Wanderlust

Type of Trip: Desi

Motto: “Your Search Ends Here! Cover The Earth Before, It Covers You”.

4. Treks and Trails

Motto: “Eco Tour Agency”

Contact: 088280 04949

[email protected]

Location: Mazgaon, Mumbai, India, Maharashtra

5. WOW Club

Motto: “We help you travel the world”

Contact: 080 2665 1135

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

6. Indian Solo Travelers

7. HikerWolf

Motto: “We do whatever makes people happy, mostly Travel😊”

Contact: Whatsapp: +91 9699514240

8. Homestays of India

Motto: “The largest Indian platform to find authentic, family run homestays across the country.”

Contact: 081783 35056

Location: New Delhi, India, Delhi

9. Travel Tribes

Type of Trip: Desi - Treks | Camps | Backpacking Trips

10. Trekkers United

Type of Trip: Desi - Himalayan Treks, Beach Treks, Backpacking Trips

Motto: “Life Changing Experience ✨”

Contact: 077109 63353

Location: Dombivli, Maharashtra, India

11. Bhatakna Tours & Travel India

Motto: “India's Coolest #travelcommunity”

12. Tag Along Backpackers

Type of Trip: Desi - Northeast

Contact: +91 7602082768

+91 7679245505

Location: Tag Along Backpackers, Near Punjab and Sind Bank, Development Area, Gangtok - 737101, Sikkim, India.

13. Backpackclan

Motto: “Is all about travelling, exploring and sharing your experiences.”

Contact: 097118 77111

Location: Padma Tower II, 507, Rajendra Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110008

14. Solo Travel India

Contact: +91- 8448817629

Location: Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand

15. Wander Womaniya

Motto: “Affordable group trips for #solofemaletravelers Best Offbeat Itineraries”

Contact: +91 9971820462

Location: Delhi & Pune

16. Chindi Safar

Motto: “For every chindi wallet, we have a chindi solution!”

Motto: “Solo women tours are carefully curated to suit the taste of an adventurous traveler.”

Contact: 098114 54591

Location: Delhi, India, Delhi

18. Wandering Jane

Contact: 91-9986565263

19. Women On Clouds

Motto: “Only Women Travel Club🌏”

Contact: 9650844470 / 9810033630

Location: Delhi

20. Ladakhi Women’s Travel Company

Motto: “The first female owned and operated travel company in Ladakh”

Contact: 094691 58137

Location: Leh, India, Jammu and Kashmir

21. The Flapper Life

Motto: “Focused on #SustainableTourism in India.”

Contact: + 91 98922 29782

22. F5 Escapes

Motto: “Redefining #WomenTravel In #India”

Contact: 080-47091759, 7892705102

23. Solo Traveller Meetup

Type of Travellers: Anyone can join but only solo

Contact: +91 9979362906 / 9825063664

Phew!! I think it is a rather well-curated list that will help you to choose the travel group that best caters to your needs – be it solo, group, friends or couples but one thing is for sure, all these groups cater to solo travel and ensure safety of the guests too.

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The 20 Best Travel Social Media Groups for 2020

When it comes to travel, there’s so many little things you may not know about that someone who’s been there, done that may be able to give some insight on. That’s why even the experienced travelers are active on social media pages- There’s always something more to learn, and some of my favorite travel inspirations often come from the groups and pages I follow on social media. So, I wanted to share my favorites on Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter with you in hopes of giving you some extra travel inspiration for 2020!

While there are newer social media platforms, I still prefer old faithful. Facebook is still one of my favorite platforms to get my inspiration with pages such as these!

Travel Bug Tribe

While this is a brand-new page I personally launched for 2020 I’m expecting it to grow quickly! Here anyone in the group can share their travel stories, tips for the places they’ve visited, travel memes, or ask questions to learn more great things about an upcoming trip. I’m hoping this page becomes an inspiration and support network for new travelers!

Girls Love Travel

This may be one of my favorite groups and have almost a million members! They also have several other groups such as GLT 35+ and GLT Foodie. Their topics range from recommendations, advice, travel stories, but it’s mostly just a place where women can come together and share their experiences and receive support from fellow travelers. I’ve seen more than one person share a personal story of being afraid to travel and crediting the group for helping them achieve their travel goals. They also host events where fellow GLT members can meet in person.

Solo Women Travel Tribe

This is a private group with over 35k members. This page offers lots of answers to different concerns, recommendations, and a chance to share their views on travel.

The Solo Female Traveler Network

This group has a little over 300k followers. You’ll find lots of travel photos and experiences from people who travel a lot and just a little sprinkled in with some travel advice as well. You can always get some extra inspiration and motivation from this group! 

The Travel News Network

While it is a smaller public group, this page allows you to post links to your own blogs as well as share you travel stories and photos! Even for being a smaller page the people following it are pretty active within the group. Great place to find new blogs to follow as well!

Supernatural Travel Group

Are you a fan of the supernatural? Maybe just a little curious? This private group allows its members to post the strange and mysterious all around the world to discuss or even to help plan a trip to visit! While they don’t post regularly, you can still find some creepy inspiration to get you motivated to see the strange and mysterious.

Girls That Scuba

As a diver, I love this private page so much! This is a good size group that shows off amazing photos and stories from dive sites all over the world! If you are curious about diving and would like to get into it you will receive the support and motivation here! They also have another group called Girls That Free Dive.

Travel Passionistas

Super cute private group with a good beginner following! Page followers can post questions and fun articles about travel and travel-related topics. (I just saw the cutest world map lamps!) It’s a very cute group that I’m looking forward to seeing become even more popular in 2020!

Tiny Globetrotters

Have children and still want to travel? This is the PERFECT page to find all the resources you will need to get on the road and show your kids the world! This is a private group and you will need to answer member questions to be accepted but its worth taking the couple minutes to do so.

All Women All Trails

This is a fantastic page for any woman wishing to experience the great outdoors! Packed full of supportive followers and interesting information, if you have been looking for hiker groups this is the one to follow.

Girls Who Travel

A super cute private group with 63000+ followers, girls who travel lets its members ask any question they like without worrying about feeling stupid.

Full-time RV Family Life

While I am not an active RVer I have been thinking really hard about doing it for a couple years now. This page has helped me learn what it really takes to live the life of a full time RVer.

Its especially a great place for beginners!

Most people still don’t think about searching twitter for travel advice, but the truth is, if you get involved with a few key pages and hashtags you will open a whole new world of travel information in real time! While I will admit, I’m not as active on Twitter as I should be, you can find some great pages to follow by using the #traveltribe to search for your own, and you can check out these pages!

Traveling Moms Club

This is a great page to follow to find unique articles and travel deals!

Travel Food Atlas

Calling all foodies! This is a great one to follow for all things food while traveling.

Victim of the Travel Bug

A little of this, a little of that, but always travel related.

Hi, my name is Amber… and I’m addicted to traveling.. and Pinterest.

I still fall down the rabbit hole on Pinterest after having it for all these years. But, in my defense, these group boards have a lot to offer! Looking for tips, travel deals, inspiration? These boards have it all and then some!

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Would you like your page to be added to the list? Feel free to shoot me an email! Are you already involved in some of these groups? Leave your comments below!

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21 Travel Social Networks for Avid Travelers

Travelers have the ability to connect with other travelers through a wide variety of social media and social networking websites. While major social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter get most of the attention from the media, the travel industry includes sites that can be incredibly helpful and fun for those who want to connect with like-minded people.

Whether you want to share your photos and stories, meet up with someone while you’re traveling, connect with your friends, make new friends, or find reviews from other travelers, the travel social networks and tourism apps mentioned here will prove to be highly useful.

Tripadvisor

TripAdvisor exists to help travelers book the perfect trip or vacation by providing reviews from other travelers. You can search for hotel reviews, restaurant reviews, and you can compare and find deals on all kinds of travel.

It’s one of the best and most reliable resources for researching businesses and locations. You can read honest and unbiased reviews from other travels, view their photos, get suggestions, and more. And of course, you can also participate by leaving reviews and helping others with their trip research and travel planning.

Matador is an online community of travelers, photographers, and adventurers. At Matador you can share your own experiences, get tips and meet other travelers with similar interests. There is a wealth of information on this social media site, including guides to destinations, a podcast, and more.

Trippy is an incredibly useful road trip planner that allows you to tap into the knowledge and insight of others in the community. Ask questions, get answers, and find the best places to stop on your own road trip vacation.

To use Trippy, you’ll simply enter your starting point and your travel destination, and it will quickly provide you with a suggested itinerary. It will provide you with all the suggested stops along the way, with suggestions from other users. Thanks to Trippy, you’ll never miss interesting places without knowing about them. It’s easily one of the best social media resources for planning a road trip.

Off Exploring

Off Exploring allows you to create your own free travel blog to share photos and content from your journey or vacation. Of course, you can share your blog with friends and family so they stay updated with your travel, or simply connect with others using the social platform.

If you like to experience travel destinations like a local rather than a tourist, you’ll love Showaround. It’s a travel social network that allows you to connect with tours by locals. You can get a more genuine and authentic experience anywhere in the world, thanks to the help of someone who lives there. No need for a travel agent!

Some tours are free and others come with a cost. You can read reviews from other travelers and learn all the details before deciding on a tour.

Of course, you can also offer tours to people who are visiting your hometown on vacation.

GAFFL (Get a Friend for Life) is a travel brand and one of the best social media networks for connecting with people in cities around the world. You can select a destination you’re traveling to, find other users who are planning trips to that location and connect. You can meet up at the destination or plan your trip and travel together to save on costs.

Backpackr is a mobile social network for connecting with others who are part of this backpacking community. Add your trip details, meet up with other users who are in the same area, and find details about the places you’re visiting. As a traveler, you can also find special deals and discounts at pubs, hostels, and more. They also list free events so you can have fun without spending money.

Steller is a social media mobile app for telling your travel stories. It includes some features that are similar to Instagram, but it’s specifically designed for travelers. You can find cool places and things to do, curate your own adventures, and connect with other travelers. Overall, Steller is one of the most popular travel apps and definitely worth checking out.

CouchSurfing

CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. You can create an account and find hosts in other locations where you will be traveling, or you can host other travelers.

Travellerspoint

Travellerspoint is an online community that provides blogs, photos, forums, and tourism and travel guides. You can create an account and share your own experiences with others, or browse through the information provided by other travelers.

FlyerTalk is a community for frequent flyers. There is a forum for communicating with other frequent flyers, and information on travel-related loyalty reward programs. You can also find news headlines, information on airports, and more.

BeWelcome is a culture-crossing network that lets you share a place to sleep, meet up, and help others on their way. As a social network, BeWelcome focuses specifically on accommodations so you can find a place to stay or provide lodging for other users.

Withlocals is a great resource if you appreciate small, intimate tours rather than large group excursions or activities with a travel company. You can find tours and events led by individuals in their hometowns. Just enter the location you’ll be visiting and browse the tours and activities that are available.

If you’re interested in hosting tours in your local area, Withlocals can be a great way to make some extra money while showing visitors a great time.

Overall, Withlocals is an excellent resource within the travel industry.

TravelLibro specializes in visual travel journeys. Enter your destination and see visual journeys from others. It’s great for finding travel inspiration and things to do. Of course, you can also create your own visual journeys to share with others.

Travello ( Android , iOS ) is a popular and highly-rated social media mobile app for connecting with fellow travelers. It features a Facebook-style feed so you can see what others are up to and find inspiration. You can also learn about places to visit and get exclusive discounts on things to do.

MeetUp is a platform for connecting with people. It’s not exclusively about travel, but it certainly offers plenty of potential for travelers. You can view planned meetups in any location to find things to do wherever you’re going. If you enjoy connecting with new people and trying new things, you’ll love MeetUp.

Foursquare ( Android , iOS ) is a popular location-based social media network. It serves as a city guide you can use to research any location you’ll be visiting. You can see what other people are doing, find places to eat and things to do, make travel plans, and keep track of where you’ve been.

Spotted By Locals

Spotted By Locals ( Android , iOS ) provides city guides with expert insight from locals. The platform currently offers guides for 80 cities with more to be added in the future. You can find the best things to do with detailed guides, all provided by locals who want to share their insight.

Travel Buddy

Travel Buddy ( Android , iOS ) is a social media network exclusively for travelers. You can connect with people wherever you’re going, connect with people in your local area and plan a trip, research destinations, and more. It also includes a Facebook-like feed your stories and photos, or to see what other users are sharing.

Of course, Instagram is an incredibly popular mainstream social media network. While it’s not exclusively for travelers, it is a great resource for sharing photos, videos, and stories from your journeys. Since so many people are already on Instagram, it’s a great choice if you want to connect. You don’t need to be an influencer with millions of followers and lots of engagement to get a lot out of Instagram.

Pinterest is another mainstream social media platform that is ideal for travel. You can create your own boards for planning your trips, use Pinterest’s search engine to find things you might want to do, and pin the interesting ones from your board. Many people share photos and links to blog posts or articles from their journeys, so you can easily tap in to that collective wisdom by using Pinterest for planning your own trips.

Final Thoughts

Whether you’re planning a trip or vacation or looking to connect with other travelers, social media content can be incredibly helpful. The platforms and apps covered in this article are the best available options for connecting with like-minded people. Using the information you find from locals and travelers, you can avoid travel industry and tourism details like a travel agency and large group tours.

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Tallahassee Foodies, a prominent social media group, is helping local recovery efforts

W hat started off as a fun way to keep in touch with lunch buddies from work has transformed into an initiative that seeks not to only share reviews of local restaurants, but to support them as well.

With over 89,000 free and active members and 542 paid members, the public Facebook group known as Tallahassee Foodies , spearheaded by Jennifer Leale, aims to maintain the vibrancy and energy that not only their entrées, but locally owned establishments, add to the capital.

Reviews of some of Tallahassee’s food favorites circulate all over the channel, while also illuminating hidden gems that can easily be overshadowed by the growing number of chains. 

Now, with many locals still reeling from the May 10 storms and tornadoes, the group is looking to bolster the homegrown restaurant industry.

“If we come together as a community, we can magnify the impact,” Leale said in an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat on how community members have the power to save and grow local establishments. 

Leale, a Florida State alum and avid blogger, is recognized far and wide for the influence she's had on the Tallahassee food scene, all while working as a web developer for her alma mater. The foodie's background in web development coupled with her passion for community has fostered a growing social media group.

Leale said her vision for the channel was to unite and engage the community through food. People have shown their gratitude and support in many ways that drive Leale, but the warm embraces she receives when visiting local restaurants, even as she tries to stay out of the spotlight, are especially touching.

The platform serves as a resource for both consumers and businesses. The group's most recent efforts have been to support local restaurants with a giant "Rally for Tally" promotional list and hosting a fundraiser for the food bank, Second Harvest of the Big Bend. 

Most recently, the city has witnessed how the aftermath of the tornadoes and storms were the final strike for some local favorites, like City Dogs Cafe and Burrito Boarder.  

To combat the ripple effect of closures the city has endured, the “Rally for Tally” promotional list, which names 71 local establishments that were closed because of the storm, has circulated on social media platforms.

Leale is hoping these lists will encourage people “to support those restaurants that need it the most.” 

The list, composed with the help of the foodies community, came together as Leale and the group’s members who help her vet the channel and interactions, sought information on what restaurants could use some extra support after missing critical days of service. 

Bakeries, bars, restaurants, cafes and other hospitality businesses were named in the hefty list with hopes that these places will serve as venues for future lunches and dinners during a time of recovery.

Leale noted that keeping afloat is already hard for the mom-and-pop restaurants in the city, but with the brunt of the storm, the community’s support has become critical. 

Establishments on the list have responded with posts like, “Thank you for your support this really helps!!”

The food group’s "Rally for Tally" lists originated during disruptive times like the COVID-19 shutdown. To help local restaurants that were shut down, the promotional list was created to garner consumer support.

Other examples of the promotional list's functions were to help promote Black-owned and Asian-American-owned restaurants during the peak of the Black Lives Matter movement, and when Asian Americans were met with xenophobia, all during the pandemic. The lists were used as a tool to bring people back together and provide these businesses with local support. 

Leale and her followers are not only focused on filling dining rooms. They also want to help fill food pantries to assist those who just don’t have the luxury of going out to eat. 

Every September, the group hosts a fundraising event for the Second Harvest of the Big Bend which supplies fresh produce and goods for up to 16 counties in the Big Bend. 

The group is currently holding a fundraiser to replenish the food bank that has served as a great resource for those hurting from the storms. The group has raised $3,800 as of May 31, with a goal to reach $5,000.

“It just feels good," Leale said of the fundraiser. "It feels like even though I'm not out there with them, through our volunteer efforts at the facility or monetary donations, it helps feel like you're part of that rebuilding effort."

Kyla A Sanford covers dining and entertainment for the Tallahassee Democrat. She can be reached at [email protected]. New restaurant opening up, special deals, or events coming up? Let me know!

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CBP Reminds Summer Travelers to Stay ‘Travel Ready'

WASHINGTON — As summer approaches and families prepare for their international trips, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reminds the traveling public to use the agency’s official mobile applications to secure and streamline their travel and expedite their reentry into the United States.    

Throughout 2023, CBP expanded use of its technology, processing over 394 million travelers at ports of entry in fiscal year 2023, a 24-percent increase over last year, and has already reached almost 100 million travelers in the first quarter of FY2024, totaling more than 527 million travelers to date using biometric facial comparison technology at entry, exit and Preclearance locations, with a match rate of more than 98 percent.     

Additionally, memberships in CBP’s Trusted Traveler Programs in FY2024 has reached 14 million. For those looking to complete an interview before their summer travel, CBP currently has more than 158,000 interview appointments available within the next 90 days. Enrollment on Arrival (EoA) remains the best option to complete a GE interview. Applicants can complete their interview without an appointment and with just the entry documents they would normally carry when arriving from international locations.   

CBP has also introduced a complement of mobile applications with technological enhancements to help speed up the travel process when entering the U.S. via air, land, or sea. Global Entry, for example, launched a new mobile app in September 2023 that allows members to complete their entry processing on their phones before even leaving the plane. The app can be downloaded from the Apple App store and Google Play, and is currently available for use at 47 airports, with more locations coming soon.  To date around 348,000 Global Entry users have processed their arrival using the app.    

International travelers who are not Global Entry members can take advantage of the Mobile Passport Control app, which allows travelers to submit their passport and travel information in advance with a mobile device, resulting in less congestion and more efficient processing. MPC is available at 51 ports of entry, including 14 Preclearance locations and four seaports. It can be used by all U.S. citizens, U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents, B1/B2 Canadian Citizens, and returning Visa Waiver Program travelers. The app was used by 4.1 million travelers in FY2023, and has already had over 4.2 million uses in FY2024.   

Non-U.S. citizens planning travel into the U.S. also have the option of using the Electronic System for Travel Authorization mobile app or the CBP One mobile app. The ESTA Mobile app was implemented June 1, 2023, and has been used almost 422,000 times to submit an ESTA application for authorization to travel to the U.S. In the first quarter of FY2024, the app has been used almost 338,000 times to apply. The CBP One™ app may also be used by visitors to the U.S. to apply and pay for the I-94 online. In FY2023, visitors used the CBP One app more than 458,000 times to complete a provisional I-94 application and almost 195,000 times in the first quarter of FY2024.    

Additionally, U.S. citizens who are required to declare agriculture and biological products upon arrival into the United States may also use CBP One to provide advanced notification that they will need an agriculture inspection. Categories for declaration include:    

• Biological materials that may require permits issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  
• Pets, specifically birds and dogs, accompanying travelers in various capacities that carry the potential of introducing foreign animal diseases to the U.S. or other public health concerns   
• Cleaning and disinfection of shoes  
• Hunting trophies    

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Trump Media stock falls after Donald Trump convicted in criminal hush money trial

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group fell as much as 15% as investors took stock of Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial.

The after-hours slide was the latest turbulent turn for Trump’s namesake social media company, which rises and falls with the former president’s fortunes . Trump owns 65% of the shares in the parent company of the Truth Social app. 

The stock, which trades under the ticker “DJT,” recovered as trading continued, but remained down about 4% in the early evening Thursday.

Volatility has been the stock’s governing principle since it began trading after the merger with shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. in  March. It has swung wildly from a high of $79.38 a share at the close of March 26 to its lowest close of $22.84 on April 16.

Trump Media’s market cap of more than $9 billion rests almost entirely on the Trump brand and his loyal following, including small-time investors who’ve shown their support for him by propping up the stock. 

Trump Media reported a first-quarter net loss of $327.6 million on less than $1 million in revenue.

A New York jury convicted Trump of falsifying documents ahead of the 2016 presidential election to cover up a payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels. 

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, right before the Republican National Convention where he’s expected to be formally nominated for president.

Trump Media stock drops 9% after Donald Trump becomes a convicted felon

• Trump Media and Technology Group stock fell as much as 9% after Donald Trump became a convicted felon.
• Trump Media stock has been volatile since the conviction, having risen 7% in premarket trading.
• Trump was found guilty on 34 charges related to falsifying business records in the hush-money trial.

Trump Media and Technology Group experienced a rollercoaster ride of trading in the aftermath of Donald Trump becoming a convicted felon.

Trump Media, which is the parent company of Truth Social, saw its stock decline as much as 9% on Friday.

The stock was initially down as much as 15% after Trump's guilty verdict was announced on Thursday in after-hours trading. From there, the stock erased all of those losses and rose about 7% in the pre-market hours on Friday, only for the stock to sell off again during regular trading.

The shares have since pared back some of those losses and is trading down about 5% as of Friday at 10:30 am. 

Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges related to falsifying business records in the hush-money trial, which was centered on him paying off Stormy Daniels a few weeks before the 2016 Presidential election.

"This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt," Trump said following the guilty decision. "We will fight for our Constitution. This is long from over. The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people. They know what happened, and everyone knows what happened here."

Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 and faces up to four years in prison, though he is largely expected to appeal the verdict.

Trump Media Group has largely become a meme-stock with a fervent base of supporters who are politically aligned with the former President. While the company sports a valuation of nearly $9 billion, its underlying business is almost non-existent.

The social media company, which was founded in 2021, reported revenue of just $770,500 in the first quarter and losses of $327.6 million. 

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Trump Media shares swing wildly and then tumble a day after former president was convicted

Former President Donald Trump returns to the courthouse moments before hearing that the jury had a verdict in his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)

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Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group closed lower Friday after swinging wildly over the course of the day following the conviction of former President Donald Trump in his hush money trial.

After the U.S. stock markets closed Thursday, a New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.

After rising more than 2% at the opening of trading Friday, the shares ended the day down 5.3%.

Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts marks the end of his historic hush money trial. But the fight is far from over. Here’s what to know.

• How did Trump respond? Trump falsely blasted a ‘rigged trial’ and attacked star witness in a speech on Friday. Follow the AP’s live coverage .
• When is the sentencing? July 11, just days before Republicans are set to pick Trump as the 2024 nominee.
• Can Trump vote? He may be convicted and reside in Florida, but can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state.
• Will this impact the election? It’s unclear whether Trump’s once-imaginable status as a person convicted of a felony will have any impact at all on voters.

The stock, which trades under the ticker symbol “DJT,” has been extraordinarily volatile since its debut in late March, joining the group of meme stocks that are prone to ricochet from highs to lows as small-pocketed investors attempt to catch an upward momentum swing at the right time.

The stock has tripled this year, in the process frequently making double-digit percentage moves either higher or lower on a single day. It peaked at nearly $80 in intraday trading on March 26. For context, the S&P 500 is up almost 10% year to date.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission before going public, Trump Media warned investors of the potential pitfalls faced by the former president and the adverse affect it might have on the stock.

“President Donald J. Trump is the subject of numerous legal proceedings, the scope and scale of which are unprecedented for a former President of the United States and current candidate for that office. An adverse outcome in one or more of the ongoing legal proceedings in which President Donald J. Trump is involved could negatively impact TMTG and its Truth Social platform.”

Earlier this month, Trump Media reported that it lost more than $300 million last quarter , according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company .

For the three-month period that ended March 31, the company posted a loss of $327.6 million, which it said included $311 million in non-cash expenses related to its merger with a company called Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC was an example of what’s known as a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, which can give young companies quicker and easier routes to getting their shares trading publicly, but with much less scrutiny.

Trump Media & Technology fired an auditor this month that federal regulators recently charged with “massive fraud.” The media company dismissed BF Borgers as its independent public accounting firm on May 3, delaying the filing of its quarterly earnings report.

Trump Media had previously cycled through at least two other auditors — one that resigned in July 2023, and another that was terminated by its board in March, just as it was rehiring BF Borgers.

Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records at his company in connection with an alleged scheme to hide potentially embarrassing stories about him during his 2016 Republican presidential election campaign.

The charge, a felony, arose from reimbursements paid to then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen after he made a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to silence her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. Trump was accused of misrepresenting Cohen’s reimbursements as legal expenses to hide that they were tied to a hush money payment.

Trump’s defense contended that the Cohen payments were for legitimate legal services.

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Trump Media shares swing wildly and then tumble a day after former president was convicted

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group closed lower Friday after swinging wildly over the course of the day following the conviction of former President Donald Trump in his hush money trial.

After the U.S. stock markets closed Thursday, a New York jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.

After rising more than 2% at the opening of trading Friday, the shares ended the day down 5.3%.

The stock, which trades under the ticker symbol “DJT,” has been extraordinarily volatile since its debut in late March, joining the group of meme stocks that are prone to ricochet from highs to lows as small-pocketed investors attempt to catch an upward momentum swing at the right time.

The stock has tripled this year, in the process frequently making double-digit percentage moves either higher or lower on a single day. It peaked at nearly $80 in intraday trading on March 26. For context, the S&P 500 is up almost 10% year to date.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission before going public, Trump Media warned investors of the potential pitfalls faced by the former president and the adverse affect it might have on the stock.

“President Donald J. Trump is the subject of numerous legal proceedings, the scope and scale of which are unprecedented for a former President of the United States and current candidate for that office. An adverse outcome in one or more of the ongoing legal proceedings in which President Donald J. Trump is involved could negatively impact TMTG and its Truth Social platform.”

Earlier this month, Trump Media reported that it lost more than $300 million last quarter , according to its first earnings report as a publicly traded company .

For the three-month period that ended March 31, the company posted a loss of $327.6 million, which it said included $311 million in non-cash expenses related to its merger with a company called Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC was an example of what’s known as a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, which can give young companies quicker and easier routes to getting their shares trading publicly, but with much less scrutiny.

Trump Media & Technology fired an auditor this month that federal regulators recently charged with “massive fraud.” The media company dismissed BF Borgers as its independent public accounting firm on May 3, delaying the filing of its quarterly earnings report.

Trump Media had previously cycled through at least two other auditors — one that resigned in July 2023, and another that was terminated by its board in March, just as it was rehiring BF Borgers.

Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records at his company in connection with an alleged scheme to hide potentially embarrassing stories about him during his 2016 Republican presidential election campaign.

The charge, a felony, arose from reimbursements paid to then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen after he made a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to silence her claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. Trump was accused of misrepresenting Cohen’s reimbursements as legal expenses to hide that they were tied to a hush money payment.

Trump’s defense contended that the Cohen payments were for legitimate legal services.

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