Browsing through your Instagram feed and feeling wanderlust from all the exotic places your friends are visiting? You are not the only one. I have found myself stalking the #Japan, #Prague or #Australia now and then, wishing I could go to that random Manju shop or thrift shop they bumped into – you know, the places travel books hardly mention. Sure, Instagram makes it easy as pie to see where they are with the geo-tagging but making that into an actual travel plan? Impossible.
Well, not anymore.
NTUC Income has launched Travel Made Different, an online portal for travellers by travellers. It forms a database from the biggest instant “travel-log” in social media, Instagram. Through its #TravelMadeDifferent hashtag, it has garnered over 15,000 photos (and counting), covering everything from famous landmarks to hidden gems only locals know about, across 94 countries!
The best travel resource is none other than those who love to travel as much as you do, the way you love to. People travel for all sorts of reasons; with family, on a honeymoon or simply just a chance to get away from the daily grind. Browse through the hashtags you love at their Gallery and +ADD the photo that piqued your interest into your Travel Log.
The travel log complies all your +ADDs into a quick itinerary – all that you want to see, do and eat. You can even share this specially made trip with your family and friends through email or sharing onto Facebook. You can continue to use #TravelMadeDifferent and #Country during the trip to contribute your very own experience, including, perhaps, that quaint mom-and-pop café where locals get their daily cuppa from.
We are already so busy with our daily lives and coming home to buckle down through travel books is a chore. A picture is worth a thousand words after all. So, why not start planning your next trip with #TravelMadeDifferent?
For more information, please check out their website or search for #TravelMadeDifferent on Instagram.
