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The 5 Best Travel Brands on Instagram (and what you can learn from them)

What makes the best travel brands on Instagram “the best”? Why are they so successful? And what can your brand learn from them? In a world where people actually prioritize travel over apparel, you need to know how to get consumers to view and engage with your content over others. Here, that’s what we’re diving into, plus giving you new insights into their strategies, so you can learn from the actual best and ace your social media game.

Instagram is a constantly evolving platform. When used correctly, it can drive brand awareness, boost sales and build engagement. The channel’s primary advantage over other social media is its visual nature. Of course, visuals tend to be pretty intrinsic for travel marketing, but brands can’t rest on just taking good photos and reels to see results. 

You have to implement a relevant, working strategy based on your KPIs to start reaching your goals. Luckily, some brands are already doing that. So let’s take a look at each one, what we can learn from them, and how you can implement their methods into your own social media marketing . 

1. Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet has over 3.3 million followers on Instagram. Their feed is full of travel inspiration, tips, and destinations. But it’s clear they’re here for more than just vanity metrics. Lonely Planet has a highly engaged profile with people commenting on their posts and reacting to their content daily. The best part? A lot of these comments tend to be people tagging their friends. This is where word-of-mouth marketing turns digital. 

Why their content works

Lonely Planet has mastered the art of interaction with its content. They post guides, questions, and ideas so that their followers can write their own opinions. Posts like the one below, asking people to fill in the blank, will inevitably get lots of engagement (this post has nearly 400 comments). Lonely Planet has utilized highly engaging posts in its strategy in order to nail organic growth. They’ve combined this with valuable, interesting, and useful content to develop a trusting community that brings their friends with them too. 

2. Airbnb 

This travel brand doesn’t need much introduction. Airbnb changed the world of vacation accommodations and, with it, the way we view them. With a whole host of amazing homes to post about, it’s no wonder that Airbnb showcases what they offer. Quirky stays, one-of-a-kind buildings, and stunning interiors all make up the @airbnb feed. But where they really shine is their content through influencers. 

Airbnb has utilized the power of influencers in all aspects of its marketing. This isn’t just on the side of vacation goers; this is also on the side of hosts. They want hosts and guests to get involved, so why not create influencer-led content for both? Airbnb partnered with influencers like @laureen to build excitement over specific Airbnb homes – a clever choice since 84% of millennials say that they are likely to plan their own vacation based on someone else’s social posts. They also worked with micro-influencer @mariamanna_ to showcase how easy it is to become a host. This is a brilliant example of how brands can build a full-funnel influencer marketing strategy with multiple target audiences. Don’t just tag influencer partnerships in your marketing. Build them into the foundations for maximum results. 

Belmond’s experiences range from riverboat cruises and luxury train services to stays in opulent accommodations. But what makes Belmond’s social strategy work so well is its commitment to customer loyalty. 

To help build this trusted community, influencer marketing was a must. We worked with them to select seven influencers from the travel, photography, and luxury sectors to travel to the “Seven Wonders of Belmond” – Venice, Sicily, Peru, Brazil, Cambodia, and South Africa. Each influencer received a gifted trip and captured the astonishing experiences these destinations offer. The result was a treasure trove of content for Belmond to share across their socials.

Belmond’s approach to working with influencers led to significant engagement and built that all-important brand trust. The campaign drove 37K+ sticker taps to @belmond and the brand-specific hashtag. During the seven-week duration of the campaign, the Belmond Instagram following grew by over 22K. They also drove over 24K clicks via paid social media and produced 277 high-quality social assets for Belmond’s channels. This strategy shows the power of influencer marketing in creating appealing, authentic content, driving engagement and follower growth, and producing useful content for a brand’s social media channels.

4. Trending Travel

The clue might be in the name of this one. Trending Travel is a company that shares the best travel deals for its customers. Their feed is scattered with posts on destinations, flights, and inspiration. But the key here is they are always up to date on what’s trending (hence the name). From posts on barbie themed getaways to seasonal topics, they keep up with the times with every post they share. 

Staying on-trend has helped Trending Travel build 655K followers. Their posts are relevant and on point, but where they really shine is in their story-building strategy too. They ask people to tag @trendingtravel to feature and then share people’s Instagram stories on their own channels. This builds trust between them and their followers and keeps the content coming. It allows their customers to see the destinations that they are promoting through an authentic lens. Combine these daily updates from influencers with up-to-date trends and you have a winning feed. Make sure you’re creating regular stories on Instagram and use UGC to build more content. Not only will it make your content feel more authentic, but it will also boost brand awareness too through riding the viral wave of trends.     

Journee may not have the sheer numbers as other travel brands on Instagram. But their 70k followers keep coming back for more. Why? Because they use real faces. They share customers’ photos of each Journee trip they go on and have collaborated with nano-influencers on Instagram to showcase their product experience. This strategy is less about massive reach, but more about nurturing vacation goers who might be in the consideration phase.

All of the influencers that Journee has worked with are picked for a reason. @emmygoesplaces is a specific travel influencer, so it goes without saying that she has a loyal, close-knit following of travel enthusiasts. Kyra Brucek is a lifestyle influencer who shares her day-to-day, another creator reaching their target market of millennials. Take a leaf out of their book. Working with influencers doesn’t have to be on a grand scale. In fact, micro-influencers and nano-influencers have a much more engaged following than mega-influencers and celebrities. So pick the right talent for your brand, and don’t be afraid of thinking small. Depending on your goals, this might be the ideal plan for upping your engagement rates and, ultimately, sales.

Bonus brand – Ryanair

Instagram is a brilliant channel for travel brand marketing. But to get maximum results, a cross-channel approach can be the best way forward. Ryanair has nailed its humorous online presence on Instagram and TikTok. On Insta, they’ve rolled out relatable memes and image-based jokes, whereas, on TikTok, they’ve posted hilarious videos with funny filters and short sassy snippets. With 90% of consumers being more likely to remember funny ads, there’s a method to their madness. 

Knowing your channels is so essential when creating content. Instagram posts will inevitably need different creative approaches to TikTok videos. Nailing this is essential for your overall social media marketing strategy. The same goes for any influencer-led campaigns. These will need to adapt to the context of the channel they’re displaying on and, of course, the audience you’re targeting. 

What can you learn from these travel brands?

We’ve gone through each brand and why they work. But in all of this information, what do you really need to know to get ahead as a travel brand on Instagram? These are the key takeaways.

• Aesthetics are great, but authenticity is king

A lot of these travel brands have nailed the aesthetics on their channel. What haven’t they done? Come across as fake. Each brand here has trod the fine line between being real and still creating stunning visuals. This is where your brand can really take note. Build high-quality content, but don’t forget to ground it in reality. Show actual experiences through influencer collaborations and UGC. Build trust through these and wow them with inspiring travel content too. 

• Integrating influencer marketing

Influencer campaigns are great, but only if you integrate them within your overall social media marketing strategy. They shouldn’t be viewed as an “add-on.” They’re a fundamental part of some of these travel brands’ success on Instagram. Work out your target audience and create a robust influencer outreach strategy to build campaigns that work throughout the marketing funnel. 

• Bigger isn’t always better

Finding specific metrics to measure is essential for Instagram. It’s not just a place to try and get tons of brand awareness. It’s also a channel that’s great for building relationships, nurturing customers, and leading people through the consideration phase. Understand what it is your looking for first, before implementing massive ad spend or influencer marketing campaigns. You may want to work with nano-influencers like Journee or a mix of influencers with different audiences like Belmond. Making the most of your budget starts with the right strategy, so it doesn’t always have to be the bigger, the better. 

Gram with the right people

Nailing your Instagram strategy means working with the right people. Whether that’s the perfect influencer or the right agency. We help brands build winning influencer strategies on Instagram. So if you want to know if we’re the right people for you, get in touch.  

Insights Manager at The Goat Agency

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The Top Travel Brands on Social Media and How They Shine

Posted by Jackie Gualtieri on November 17, 2023

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Summer may have come to an end, but that doesn’t mean that we’re not still dreaming about vacations, and travel brands like it that way. From riverboat cruises to theme park destinations, everyone has a different dream vacation, and many of us spend a pretty good amount of time scrolling social media to see what’s new at the place we hope to venture to one day.

If you spend your lunch break scrolling through your favorite travel company’s social accounts, you’re not alone. According to our Social Media Industry Benchmark Report for 2023 , the engagement rates for the travel industry are fairly average and on par with other industries. Though travel isn’t the industry with the highest engagement rates, it’s pretty clear that social media users love to see what their favorite travel company is up to.

That’s especially the case for travel brands on TikTok. Although travel companies were in the middle of the pack for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, they scored third place in terms of engagement rate on TikTok. Perhaps there’s just something about actually seeing your favorite travel destination in action in TikTok’s short-form videos.

However, there are brands that are outliers and outshining other industries across all four of these major social media platforms. Let’s get into the travel brands doing best on social media and how they found success on social.

Takeaways From Top Travel Brands

Top travel brand on facebook : viking cruises.

What They Do Well : Understanding their demographic

Some brands play to their audience well, and one travel brand that shows they understand their target audience perfectly is Viking Cruises . The ocean and riverboat cruise line focuses on social media platforms that their customers are more likely to use. From September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2023, Viking Cruises posted more on Facebook than on any other platform. During this time period, the cruise line posted 615 times.

In comparison, they posted 331 times on Instagram and 188 times on Twitter. They do not use TikTok at all.

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According to Sprout Social’s research , a whopping 92% of adults aged 56 and up, often known as Baby Boomers, have a Facebook account. With Baby Boomers also reporting that their social media usage is going up, it appears to be a particularly ideal time for companies like Viking to focus on their Facebook strategy.

The Baby Boomer demographic aligns with Viking’s target audience. According to TripSavvy , Viking Cruises passengers are typically older adults, with many being retired and over the age of 60. Perhaps this alignment is why the engagement rate for Viking Cruises on Facebook during this time was 0.90%, which is just over 10x the average engagement rate of the travel industry on Facebook in 2023.

In addition to focusing on Facebook, Viking Cruises also made sure their posts were tailored toward the interests of their older audience. According to Sprout Social, 69% of Baby Boomers like to follow companies online to stay up to date on new products and services. Baby Boomers are also some of the hardest followers to keep. When they’re met with poor reviews of the companies or excessive ads, they’ll often unfollow. Viking may perform so well with this demographic because they don’t make their advertisements obvious.

One of their posts with the highest engagement during this time period included a blurb from a former passenger talking about the incredible castles they saw on their trip. The post earned an engagement rate of 6.09%, nearly 70x the average engagement rate of the travel industry on Facebook in 2023. The comments section is filled with people talking about having taken this particular cruise themselves, which is even more likely to convince Baby Boomers to be interested in what Viking is offering.

Top Travel Brand on Instagram : Dollywood

What They Do Well : Leaning into their brand image

Dollywood , the theme park nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains named for its famous songstress founder, wasn’t always Dollywood . The theme park actually changed hands three times before it became Dollywood in the 1980s. Now, it’s hard to believe it was ever not tied to Dolly Parton and her beloved music. Parton is an integral part of the theme park’s brand.

Dollywood knows that, at least according to their social media presence. Dollywood is inextricably linked to Parton. For many of its fans and visitors, it’s one of the biggest reasons why they make plans to venture on through the park’s gates. This love for Parton is what Dollywood capitalizes on when putting together their Instagram strategy. This theme park earned an Instagram engagement rate of 1.61%, about 3.5x the average engagement rate of the travel industry on Instagram in 2023.

While some of Dollywood’s top posts for the year keep their audience updated on upcoming rides, many more posts simply celebrate all things Dolly. One of the park’s top posts by engagement wasn’t in celebration of Dollywood but instead honored 50 years of the hit song “I Will Always Love You.” The post earned a 4.86% engagement rate, more than 10x the average Instagram engagement rate of the travel industry in 2023.

A post that performed even better in terms of engagement was even simpler. With a picture of Parton herself riding down the streets of Dollywood and a caption saying, “Hi, Dreamer-in-Chief,” the post was just a shoutout to the woman who started it all.

Much like how Walt Disney World will forever be tied to Walt Disney, Dolly Parton will always be Dollywood’s “Dreamer-in-Chief.” That’s something worth celebrating for the park’s fans, who came out in droves in the comments to say how much they loved Parton and hoped to see her in the park themselves one day. The likes, comments, and shares earned the post an engagement rate of 5.78%, over 12x the industry average for 2023.

These posts demonstrate how well Dollywood understands its brand and knows that Parton herself is such a big part of it. While other theme parks may rely on costumed characters as mascots, Dollywood knows that Parton is, in a way, Dollywood’s biggest, most beloved mascot.

Top Travel Brand on Twitter : Vidanta

What They Do Well : Celebrity partnerships

Vidanta , known for their luxury hotels and experiences throughout Mexico, also has their own version of mascots. Rather than having a famous founder or costumed characters, Vidanta instead partners with well-known celebrities. This tactic seems to work particularly well on Twitter, where the brand has scored a 0.29% engagement rate, 9x the average engagement rate for the travel industry on Twitter.

Most of the brand’s top tweets by engagement involve actors Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mark Wahlberg, and Jaime Camil. However, the brand’s celebrity partnership usage greatly differs from how Dollywood uses their founder in their posts. Instead of talking about the person, Vidanta’s celebrity ambassadors showcase their properties and company news.

The top tweet in terms of engagement for Vidanta during this time period shows pictures of Camil in front of different parts of the company’s Nuevo Vallarta property. The tweet garnered an engagement rate of 1.04%, 32.5x the average engagement rate for the travel industry on Twitter in 2023.

Many of these posts also tie into company news, which may be beneficial for Twitter. According to Statista , Twitter is the most popular platform that users turn to for news. The company updates that Vidanta posts, such as a tweet featuring Camil that talks about the phased opening of Vidanta’s new theme park, may resonate with those who turn to Twitter to get insights into what’s happening.

The post earned a 0.91% engagement rate, about 28x the average engagement rate of the travel industry on Twitter. This successful post demonstrates that Vidanta’s followers want updates on what the company is doing and how they’re expanding. The celebrity endorsements just add to the excitement.

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Top Travel Brand on TikTok : Hilton

What They Do Well : Showcasing experiences in bite-sized ways

While Vidanta showcases the properties they own, hotel conglomerate Hilton takes things a step further by showing off experiences instead. While Hilton does use the Dollywood tactic of having its famous founding family in their TikToks, the majority of posts veer away from celebrities. Instead, Hilton posts TikToks showing off all the fun their ambassadors and other individuals can have when they stay with Hilton. This strategy helped Hilton score an engagement rate of 7.83%, which is just above the travel industry’s average engagement rate for 2023.

One of the brand’s most successful posts in terms of engagement doesn’t come across much like an ad at all. In the TikTok, we see a family going on vacation and finding that their dad has booked a tiny home that’s hardly going to fit them all. Luckily, they managed to find more comfort in a Hilton hotel. The TikTok shows off their room, the friendly staff, dining, and more that you’ll find in a Hilton establishment.

The TikTok looks like influencer-generated content (IGC) or user-generated content (UGC). It would fit in elsewhere on TikTok beyond Hilton’s own social media pages, making the post feel more authentic and trustworthy. This post earned a 133% engagement rate, about 18x the average engagement rate on TikTok for the travel industry.

It’s also worth noting that Hilton follows another strategy that seems to work across social media video formats, like TikToks, Instagram Stories, and Instagram Reels. According to Facebook Blueprints Insights , the optimal length for a scene is just 2.8 seconds. For this reason, it’s better to do quick cuts rather than make a scene the entire length of a video.

This strategy is also apparent in another of the brand’s top posts, this time showcasing a dog staying at a Hilton hotel. This TikTok uses quick cuts to show off all the different amenities that a dog gets to enjoy here. Using this format, Hilton gets to demonstrate a lot of their experiences in a short time. The post earned a 73.6% engagement rate, just about 10x the average engagement rate of the travel industry on TikTok.

Methodology for the Best Travel Brands

To determine what the top travel brands on social media are, we first took a look at the engagement rates for some of the biggest travel brands active on social media between September 1, 2022, and August 31, 2023. Then, we compared those rates to the average engagement rates of the travel industry across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok in 2023, according to our Social Media Industry Benchmark Report.

Those with engagement rates higher than the average moved on to the next round, where they were compared with one another to determine who had the best social media presence. In addition to having to have the highest engagement rate on the specified social media platform, the company’s social media also had to have a regular posting schedule to be chosen as a top travel brand. Those that posted less than once per month on average were not eligible to make the list.

It’s also worth noting that no brand of those surveyed had an above-average engagement rate on all four platforms, which is why this list is broken down by each social network.

Bonus info: Looking for more information on the best practices on social media for travel brands? Check out how these top travel brands stayed ahead of the rest.

Wrapping Up the Top Travel Brands

The top travel companies on social media go to show how important it is to understand each social media platform and format. For those like Viking Cruises who focus on Facebook, it’s essential to cater to your target audience and the platform’s primary demographics.

Although some brands think that social media isn’t the place to be to target Baby Boomers, Viking demonstrates that idea is outdated. Meanwhile, those who focus on Twitter, like Vidanta, know they need to find exciting ways to keep their audience up to date on what’s happening at their company.

Those who rely on videos, like Hilton, know how important it is to keep their viewers engaged, which means quick cuts and a lot of content in one short video. Brands like Dollywood go to show that, no matter what platform you’re on or the format of content you’re creating, understanding what followers love about your brand is key.

Jackie Gualtieri

Jacqueline is a writer and editor based out of the Central Coast of California. She initially started out as an influencer marketing strategist and continues to find herself fascinated with the way social media affects us. When she's not analyzing the world of social media, she can be found writing poetry and short stories. And if she's not writing, she's probably covering her house with more crochet and embroidery.

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40 Top Instagram Travel Influencers To Grow Your Brand In 2023

• Post author: Cyrus Nambakhsh
• Post published: July 11, 2023
• Post category: Influencer Marketing

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There’s no denying that travel influencers get to do so much for your brand that few can. As the tourism industry is booming, partnership with influencers is a great decision for tourism brands to promote new destinations, hotels, restaurants, and even flights. Let’s check out the list of top Instagram travel influencers to find out who are the masters of this world.

Apart from this list, brands and companies can find top influencers in different categories by using Influencer marketing platforms like Ainfluencer.

Now, let’s go back to our list of 40 top Instagram travel influencers you should be following.

Top 40 Travel influencers

The following influencers on Instagram can inspire people and make them step forward and explore new places. So, let’s see who they are. 

1. aggie (@aggie)

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 If you are fond of adventures, Aggie is the best to follow. The successful travel influencer, with 1M followers,  also owns a swimwear store, which makes swimwear from recycled fishing nets and plastic bottles. Her account is full of dreamy visuals in amazing locations.

2. brian skerry (@brianskerry)

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As a photographer for National Geographic Magazine since 1998, Brian is a photojournalist, specializing in marine wildlife and underwater environments, with 936k followers. In 2014 he was named as a National Geographic Society Fellow and in 2017 he was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the year.

3. Alan Schaller (@alan_schaller)

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The London-based photojournalist, Alan Achaller, is a traveler, and street photographer who specializes in black and white photography. He has 1M followers on Instagram who like his photography style.  Additionally, his work is focused on the realities and diversities of human life.

4. Jacob Moon (@moonmountainman)

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Most photographers on Instagram like traveling because they can capture wonderful photos on their trips. Jacob is one of them who is a photographer, videographer, athlete, and more importantly a storyteller. He shares his tales with his 534k followers.

Furthermore, Jacob travels with his wife and daughter, and his lifestyle has inspired many to explore beyond their comfort zones and get outdoors as families to live their best lives together.

5. Olivier Wong (@wonguy974)

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Paris-based Olivier Wong is an engineer with a passion for travel and photography. He uses every free moment to go somewhere and take stunning photos to share with his 934k followers, or simply to wander through the streets of Paris, which are always inspirational. 

6. André Hamann (@andrehamann)

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With 947k followers, Andre Hamann is a fitness trainer and fashion model who has come to also be known as a social media influencer thanks to the massive followership he enjoys on the internet. Of German nationality, he is internationally known for his work with some major brands around the world.  Beyond that, he is also a businessman who has his own fashion label. He travels for shootings and partnerships with brands.

 7. Babak Tafreshi (@babaktafreshi)

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Born in Tehran and based in Boston, Babak Tafreshi is The founder and director of The World at Night (TWAN) international program. With 983k followers, he is the night sky photographer for National Geographic, a master in nightscape photography with Earth & sky images that merge art, culture, and science.

 8. Liz Kaeber (@lizkaeber)

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The German-based Instagram star and young artist, Liz Kaeber,  has more than 1M followers on her official Instagram.Ever since she became famous on Instagram, her success hasn’t stopped. Mainly she posts her modeling shoots in bikinis and fabulous clothes with unique poses and she was famous for her great performance on Instagram. Therefore, apart from being a travel influencer, Liz is a great bikini m o del too.

9. Shenaz Treasurywala (@shenaztreasury)

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As an actress, model, and, above all, a travel vlogger, with more than 1M followers,  Shenaz has traveled to several places around the world.  Besides her professional content creation on travel destinations, she also shares content about body positivity, and mindfulness.

10. Claire and Peter (@claireandpeter)

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Traveling as a couple is appealing to most people. Claire and Peter are two travel influencers on Instagram with 301k followers. They travel and see different traditions, cultures, and landscapes and share them with others. As two great travel influencers on Instagram, they have worked with major brands, and their followers continue to grow by the day.

Their special website is “Claireandpeter.com.”

11. Leah (@leahshoup)

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One of the top travel influencers on Instagram is Leah, who has 84k followers on Instagram. This traveling girl is from Atlanta and makes full-time traveling content on her Instagram account and blog. She has always been drawn to traveling and learning about new cultures.

Meanwhile, Leah collaborates with several tourism brands, including Airbnb and Visa.

12. Jett and Frantzky (@awaywithbae)

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The other couple travelers are Jett and Frantzky; two Instagram travel influencers who met on a plane, fell in love, and decided to travel around the world together. They could gain more than 134k followers by sharing photos and videos of their trips.

Thanks to their amazing photos and helpful tips, they have become two of the most respected travel influencers on Instagram.

13. Kim (@Walkaboottravel)

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By sharing her adventures, experiences, and blogs, Kim has gained 17k followers. Due to her experience about travel blogging, she can be a great choice for promoting travel-related products and services.

Furthermore, she has a website, “Walkaboot.ca”, where you can read her travel guides.

14. Irina Claire Bromberg (@Irina.bromberg)

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On the list of top  Instagram travel influencers we can see Irina’s name, who usually travels with her love and two children. In addition to her beautiful photos she shares with her 1M followers; Irina’s captions offer valuable insights into what it’s like to travel to different parts of the world.

15. Helen Owen (@helenowen)

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One of the luxury travel influencers on Instagram, is Helen Owen with 1.5m followers. She travels the world and posts photos and videos of her trips on her Instagram account, which has helped her to become a well-known and respected travel blogger.

Apart from her stunning photo,  she provides valuable insights into the destinations she visits. Since Helen’s followers often look to her for travel advice, she frequently collaborates with brands to promote products and services related to travel.

16. Yazan Al Koudsi (@zizotravel)

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Among the top travel influencers on Instagram, you can see Yazan’s name, a popular traveler who has gained more than 2m followers for his incredible travel photos. 

Furthermore, Yazan’s travel tips have helped many people plan their own trips. Moreover, he is still an inspirational travel influencer on Instagram to people who would like to explore new places.

17. Murad Osmann (@muradosmann)

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Named among the top 3 travel influencers by Forbes, Murad is a Russian traveler who became popular with the “ Follow Me To ” series made with his wife Natalia Zakharova in 2012. His photos of holding his wife’s hand while she looks back have become a famous trend across the globe, earning them 3.4M followers.

 18. Jennifer Tuffen (@izkiz)

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The third top travel influencer on Instagram on our list is Jennifer Tuffen, a luxury travel influencer who is known for her incredibly colorful dreamy Instagram feed that features the most iconic hotels, food, and landscapes. Meanwhile, she is one of the most famous British travel influencers, with 2.7M followers.

19. Chris Burkard (@Chrisburkard)

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Famous for his landscape s and scenic photographs of beautiful places (especially cold ones), Chris describes himself as a photographer and filmmaker.

Chris has worked as a freelancer for several notable publications including Surfline.com and Water Magazine. Moreover, his photographs have a unique sense of human touch blended with the beauty of nature, so much so that a ‘Burkard photo’ is almost impossible to reproduce. Consequently, he has 3.8M followers on Instagram.

20. Jack Morris (@jackmorris)

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His travel journey started when Jack was 21. As a young boy, he decided to go backpacking with the money he saved from his carpet job in Manchester. Gradually, Jack started to make some money through reposting and tagging travel-related businesses, which helped him make further travel plans. Then came a big offer of $35,000 which he grabbed with both hands.

With 2.5M followers, Jack is one of the best travel blogger on the list.

As you see, it’s not difficult to make money on Instagram; anyone can receive offers from top brands and businesses. You can be one of them, like Jack, and travel the world without worrying about costs. So, increase your chance by  joining Ainfluencer now .    

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21.  Eric Stone (@Travelbabbo)

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Although it may seem Eric doesn’t have as many followers as the other travel influencers on Instagram, he is named the world’s 4th most influential traveler by Forbes and the world’s best family traveler by Fodor.

As a writer who loves exploring crazy places, and with 368k followers,  he has visited 97 countries (across 7 continents) so far, 62 of which have been with kids. Some of the places he has visited are Greece, Italy, France, the Faroe Islands, and the Maldives.

22. lauren bullen (@gypsea_lust)

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As a dental assistant from Western Australia, Lauren has always had a passion for traveling and visiting new places. She used to save up for months from her job to go on a trip. Inspired by the growth of her twin sister’s Instagram account, she started her own. As she grew popular, and gained 2M followers,  local brands started approaching her for trip promotions and brand deals. 

 23. Louis Cole (@louiscole)

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With almost 1 million followers on Instagram, Luis Cole is another luxury travel influencer. Moreover, he is a travel vlogger who showcases his adventures and hopes to inspire social change with a plant-based strategy.

He also undertook the “ Beyond Borders ” project which involved flying to 22 cities over 60-90 days with his pilot friend. Cole has also worked with Discovery and BBC networks and inspired both social change and travel among the masses.

24. thebucketlistfamily (@thebucketlistfamily)

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As the name suggests, this is a family that travels and influences together. They started their journey in 2015 when they decided to sell their house to explore the world. Together, they have traveled to 65 counties so far. After 3 years on the road, they have now built a beautiful home in Hawaii. However, they continue to explore the world, and share their journey with their 2.8M followers. 

They have a successful Instagram and Youtube channel where they post about their travels to countries like Chile, Tahiti, and Tanzania among others.

 25. Emilie (@helloemilie)

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Known for her beautiful landscape clicks on her Instagram page, Emilie is a well-known travel influencer, with 1.3M followers. Furthermore, she has authored a book named “Forever Wandering” that contains her experiences of visiting places around the globe. Through her book, you can feel a connection with nature and natural ecosystems, which is an ideal lens through which to view the beauty of nature.

26. Altug Galip (@kyrenian)

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As a world-renowned photographer and travel influencer, with 1.2M followers, Altughas captured breathtaking shots that certainly catch the eye of anyone browsing through his Instagram. One of T+L’s ambassadors, Galip has citizenship in four countries, which facilitates his endeavors.

Places like Bhutan, Moscow, Milan, Cuba, Qatar, and many others have been beautifully captured by him behind his lens.

 27. Angelica Blick (@angelicablick)

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 As a famous Instagram influencer with 1.1m followers. Angelica  is an active Instagrammer in travel, gym, and fashion niches with multiple photos in awesome outfits and beautiful destinations.

Apart from being a travel influencer, Angelica is also a successful fashion icon. Accordingly, she has won many awards, including the VeckoRevyn Blog Awards and the Vixen Awards. The exotic locations coupled with breathtaking fashion designs make her Instagram an instant hit among millennials. She also runs a successful Youtube channel where she uploads vlogs of her fashion shoots and travels.

28.  Chelsea Y (@chelseakauai)

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chelsea Y.✨🌊 Adventure Travel (@chelseakauai)

As an outdoor adventurer, Chelsea shares great travel tips with her followers.Chelsea Yamase is one of the top Instagram travel influencers who gained 1m followers in being a traveler, model, and writer.

29. Salty Luxe (@saltyluxe)

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Sarah is a luxury travel influencer that specializes in tropical and ocean adventures which are reflected by her Instagram posts. Additionally, she has opened her own store with a beautiful view of planting a tree for every purchase. She has also been awarded the title of “World’s leading island travel influencer”. Her posts reflect the warm culture of the tropical world. 

30. Tudor Laurini (@Klaus)

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This Italian YouTuber , also known as Klaus, has built a dedicated following with his prank calls, challenges, science experiments, and more. His channel has more than 1.4m subscribers. And he also has 892k followers on Instagram.

 31. Sakis Tanimanidis (@sakiswp)

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As a Greek TV host, producer, and entrepreneur, with 1M followers, Sakis is known as the host, creator, producer, and director of the travel show World Party , which aired on Alpha TV from 2014 to 2016. Furthermore, he is the owner of two restaurants and one travel agency in Greece.

 32. Antonio Pozo (@antonio.pozo)

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Although Antoino is mainly known as a Spanish fitness model who has competed in Mr. Spain and became a sponsored athlete, he is a travel enthusiast too. Furthermore, Antonio is a luxury travel influencer with 1m followers on his Instagram.

 33. Sonia Lorenzini (@sonia__lorenzini)

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Travel and fashion are linked together! People usually want to look their best while traveling. As such, Sonia helps them to do it the best way. With 928K followers, Sonia is a fashion travel influencer who loves nature and adventures. She is fond of fashion and she creates content by bringing fashion and style to different places she travels.

34. Colleen Roden (@colleen.travels)

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For Colleen, it’s not all about traveling; she also cares about what she eats on her trips. Consequently, she shares her travel experiences with special comments about how to eat healthy food. Accordingly, she describes herself as a wellness influencer too. Furthermore, with 380k followers, Colleen collaborates with companies in different fields, such as fashion, lifestyle, and travel. 

Even as a traveler, you can still receive offers from businesses in other niches. Therefore, you can increase your chance of being discovered by different brands and companies by joining the Ainfluencer community of influencers .  

It’s free to join!  

35. Tasha Ryland (@tasharyland)

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Introducing herself as a ‘Travel Nurse,’ Tasha amuses her followers with eye-catching photos she shares on her Instagram. Although she is a  nano influencer , she has an inspiring Instagram account.

Did you know that sometimes nano-influencers are better options for your  influencer marketing strategy ? Since they don’t have too many followers, they can create a friendlier atmosphere with their followers, which makes them more trustworthy to their fans.

36. Ariele Rachel (@arielerachel)

As a mom, lifestyle blogger , and model, Ariele is one of the travel Instagram influencers who shares different content with her followers, which makes her more impressive. All she tries to do is to give women more courage to change their lives and become a better version of themselves. To reach this goal, she shares tips about traveling as a woman. Ariele has 11k followers on her Instagram account.

37. Arner Adventures (@arneradventures)

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gerry + Shannon Arner+BettyWhite🐾 (@arneradventures)

This couple and their cute dog are among the top travel influencers on Instagram. Garry and Shannon have sold all they had to start a new life full of adventure. On their Instagram account, which has 83k followers,  they inspire others to do the same. 

38. Emily-Bell (@emilyjbell_)

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Canada is the country with so many card-postal-look locations, and Emily is the one who travels to these dreamy places. However, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to explore other countries, but since she lives in Canada, most of her trips are inside this country. Emily has 20k followers on her Instagram account.

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39. Geeves (@realgirlreview)

Two things can describe Geeves: travel and food! They are somehow connected, though. Geeves has almost 10k followers on Instagram. Although she doesn’t like to consider herself an influencer who makes money from her trips, she promotes different travel-related products, such as hotels and spas. 

40. Fahira Fazlic (@zlicc)

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Fashion adds an extra attraction to a trip, which Fahira does. Checking her Instagram account, with 22k followers, you can see how colorful and girly her photos are. Since Fahira is a fashion influencer who mixes fashion and travel, she often collaborates with top fashion brands, like Channel.

How to find Instagram influencers?

We have listed 40 top travel influencers in this article. But, if they are not the proper influencers for your tourism business, there are other ways to find travel influencers easily and quickly. One of them is using Ainfluencer , which efficiently connects brands and influencers. 

tourism), gender, location, and hashtags they use. On Ainfluencer, you have access to the list of over 500k influencers in different niches. Therefore, finding a proper influencer will be much easier and quicker for you. 

Since this marketplace is 100% free, why not try it now? 

Meanwhile, check out this video to see how you can connect with different travel influencers:

Other ways to find influencers on Instagram are as follows:

• Use google search,
• Monitor your competitor’s accounts,
• Do hashtag research,
• Use influencer marketing platforms.

Furthermore, with Ainfluencer you will be able to create campaigns, discover Instagram influencers , invite, and collaborate, all 100% free to use with no hidden fees. 

Instagram travel influencers have changed the way of traveling by inspiring people to travel to places they didn’t know existed! Furthermore, most of them make traveling more accessible than before because they give all the information a tourist needs. As a result, tourism-related companies, such as hotels, restaurants, and even new amusing locations, introduce themselves through these influencers and increase their brand awareness .

Forbes reported that the “Instagrammability” of any destination plays a major role in driving travel choices. With the travel influencer industry growing day by day, travel influencers are here to stay! If you are a travel and hospitality brand, you should find an influencer very soon because your competitors are doing influencer marketing now. So, don’t hesitate to sign up on Ainfluencer to start a great campaign with the help of influencers.

Top Instagram travel influencers are the bucket list family (@thebucketlistfamily), Jack Morris (@Jackmorris), Murad Osmann (@muradosmann), and Jennifer Tuffen (@izkiz).

Many travel-based agencies such as travel insurance providers, hotels, tourism boards, airlines, and rental car companies organize campaigns that are only effective with Instagram influencers.

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Top 10 best travel Instagram accounts to follow

Monday  newsletters  always feature  top 10 travel lists  to inspire.

Today (March 30, 2020): My top 10 favorite travel Instagram accounts to follow.

Due to the COVID19 pandemic, it is not the best time to start planning an exciting holiday since no one knows exactly what the future holds. Yet, many of us are looking for a brief escape from a new reality aflood with coronavirus stories. So there’s no better time to dream a little by looking at insanely stunning travel photos that bring beautiful destinations to the forefront. Over the past few years, bloggers and influencers have boomed in popularity, yet only few succeed in truly inspiring others. Here are my 10 favorite Instagram travel bloggers who you can follow as well to feed your own wanderlust. And of course, you can always follow my own Instagram account at @LuxuryTravelExpert .

Think I missed one? Who is your favorite Instagram travel blogger? Leave a comment .

10. @THETRAVELPRO

Mikki Tenazas was studying medicine until he realized his passion was elsewhere. After he graduated med school, he took his leap of faith and traveled the world, building a large audience on his personal Instagram account @thetravelpro . Mikki is also the founder of @TheGlobeWanderer , one of Instagram’s most followed travel accounts.

View this post on Instagram One of the most epic hotels we ever stayed in this year was Keemala, with its uniquely-designed villas that incorporated elements found in nature, like the Bird’s Nest Villa you see here. Today I’m counting down my favorite resorts in the most amazing locations on Stories. Check out the whole series and see where @keemalaphuket ranks! #TheGlobeWanderer #TheTravelPro #2018 #bestof2018 A post shared by Mikki Tenazas (@thetravelpro) on Dec 30, 2018 at 8:01am PST

9. @DOYOUTRAVEL

Jack Morris is the world traveler and professional photographer behind @doyoutravel , his travel-focused Instagram account with over two million followers. He’s known for his idyllic photographs of the most spectacular places on earth. On a side note, Morris earns a six-figure salary for traveling the world and was once paid $9,000 USD for a single post on Instagram.

View this post on Instagram Are you following your dream? 👊🏼 So many of you ask me how I got to where I am today, how I travelled nonstop for so long, and how I can make money online. Unfortunately there’s no simple answer and there’s no secret overnight success tip. . With that said, I truly believe ANYONE can do it if that’s what they really want to do! It just requires some hard work, and passion. 💪🏽 . There’s soo many things you can do online these days, there’s an infinite amount of opportunity, and so many resources to help you achieve goals. . I’ve been pushing The Preset Bundle hard over these last few days because it’s truly one of the best things you can buy online right now if you’re wanting to kickstart an online career, especially in the social media space. . There’s a shit load of presets in there (which is epic) but there’s also a bunch guides on how to master social media and make a career out of it, as well as video tutorials on how to better your photography. It’s the ultimate package created for you, by the leading creators online. We all collaborated on this together and are real proud of it! If you haven’t bought it already, join over 8000 others and get involved! It’ll be gone in a few days and I’d hate for you to miss out on this! You can still get it now with the link in my bio! Sorry for the essay haha✌🏻 A post shared by JACK MORRIS (@doyoutravel) on Feb 28, 2020 at 5:16am PST

8. @PILOTMADELEINE

Munich-based Madeleine Schneider-Weiffenbach has spent a good chunk of her life in the air. After earning her pilot’s license, she had trouble finding a job with an airline, so she channeled her love of flying and travel into a different career path. Today, she’s one of the most popular travel influencers on Instagram, sharing stunning snaps of destinations like Santorini and Cappadocia.

View this post on Instagram 🎉 BIG PROJECT REVEAL 🎉 I‘ve teamed up with some of my favorite creators to offer this massive XXL Preset Bundle to you guys (LINK IN BIO) 🤩🤩🤩 What‘s included: 🖤 50+ Preset Packs + 2 Photography Guides 📸 🖤Over 1200+ Presets (Mobile + Desktop) 🖤Presets from 36 creators (swipe to check out a few others besides Iqbal and I) 🖤 Worth more than 2600€/ 2900 USD However, we are offering it to our followers for only 79,99€ 🙌🏽🎉 This is by far the best deal I‘ve ever seen on Instagram 😱 And it‘s getting even better: By ordering via the link in my bio (or via bit.ly/PresetBundle) you also have the chance to win: 🥇 A trip to the Maldives for 2 people (worth 3000$) 🥈 Canon EOS 6D Camera (2000$) 🥉 DJI Mavick 2 Pro (1500$) Just be quick because this offer is limited time only and it will never come back again 🙈😬 If you use the link in my bio or ➡️ bit.ly/PresetBundle ⬅️ I will also help you to install them on your phone and/ or desktop ❤️ A post shared by MADDIE ♡ TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE (@pilotmadeleine) on Feb 28, 2020 at 12:00am PST

7. @TRAVELSOFALI

Doctor Ali Alsulaiman is a Saudi Arabia born doctor, who is now based in London. Ali quit his clinical practice and became a passionate full time traveler about a year ago. Taking his camera with him on his journeys across the globe and making incredibly beautiful pictures along the way, his Instagram feed makes us dream of luxury hotels and far flung destinations.

View this post on Instagram A sunrise treatment for the soul. A post shared by Dr.Ali Alsulaiman (@travelsofali) on Oct 19, 2019 at 6:22am PDT

6. @DISCOVERSONEVA

Ranking among my favorite resorts in the world, Soneva is the holy grail of luxury travel for many Instagram fashionables and (social media) celebrities because it offers unrivaled photo opportunities. Soneva’s Instagram page @discoversoneva – one of the world’s most followed hotel accounts – gives daily updates with photos that make us long for our next holiday.

View this post on Instagram Is there anywhere you'd rather be right now? #sonevajani #discoversoneva #experiencesoneva #soneva25 #sonevafushi #luxuryexperience #luxuryresort #luxurylife #luxurytravel #amazingdestinations #beautifulplaces #dreamdestination #wonderful_places #beautifuldestinations #nourishyoursoul #oceanlife #oceanlover #oceanlifestyle #maldives #maldives_ig #visitmaldives #maldivesinsider #maldivesresorts #maldivesislands #maldiveslovers #maldivesphotography #beautifulmaldives 📸@ _dgtravel_ A post shared by Soneva (@discoversoneva) on Mar 24, 2020 at 2:00am PDT

5. @WEAREWILDERNESS

I am a huge wildlife and safari enthusiast, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to find Wilderness Safaris’ Instagram account @wearewilderness in this top 10 list. Wilderness Safaris is one of Africa’s leading luxury ecotourism companies that exists to protect pristine wilderness areas and the fauna and flora they support.

View this post on Instagram Little lions of the Linyanti. Images: Claire Voyle, @clairevoyle #Olympus Photographer #lioncubs #SavutiCamp #Botswana #Wearewilderness #wildernesssafaris A post shared by Wilderness Safaris (@wearewilderness) on Feb 21, 2020 at 8:58am PST

4. @EMMETT_SPARLING

Emmett has had more heart stopping adventures than most of us will see in our lifetimes, whether it be hanging from a helicopter over a Hawaiian volcano, sledding down a Swiss glacier at sunset, or being dropped deep into a cave in Java. By sharing his amazing experiences with gorgeous photography, Emmett now makes his living as one of Instagram’s fastest growing adventure travel photographer.

View this post on Instagram One of the most memorable sunrise shoots I’ve ever been on. We took a helicopter over the Swiss Alps and got to see these powerful mountains from above. Anyone down to ski this thing? A post shared by TRAVEL 🌎 EMMETT SPARLING (@emmett_sparling) on Mar 24, 2020 at 8:10am PDT

3. @ALEXPREVIEW

Hamburg based Alexander Williamson is the mastermind behind the Instagram page @alexpreview. Setting social media feeds alight with images of Bora Bora, the Maldives and Thailand, each post is sure to make you wish you were right there with him. His dreamy photos and videos often feature on the Instagram feed of the world’s most famous travel magazines, @CNTraveler and @TravelandLeisure .

View this post on Instagram When you find the one place, where every single thing you see tells you to stay ⛰✨ @fsborabora A post shared by ➳ Λ L E X (@alexpreview) on Jan 24, 2020 at 10:54am PST

2. @LOSTLEBLANC

Christian LeBlanc is a Vancouver resident who quit his accounting job at age 22, moved to Asia, and lived like a “broke backpacker” for a year before his social media business took off. Today, the 26-year-old goes by the name “Lost LeBlanc” and creates stunning travel content for his more than one million YouTube subscribers and 600,000 Instagram followers.

View this post on Instagram This week I experienced my first ever midnight sun. In the summer months, Northern Norway has sunlight 24 hours a day. The sun literally doesn’t go below the horizon for 2 months. Checked this experience off my bucket list and it surpassed my expectations in every single way. Norway really took me by surprise 💙 Pc: @whatthechic A post shared by Christian LeBlanc (@lostleblanc) on Jun 15, 2019 at 8:56am PDT

1. @JEREMYAUSTIIN

Jeremy Austin is a Miami based high-end travel content creator, who makes stunning photos of mostly tropical destinations for his 300,000+ followers. He’s the partner of @missangievilla , another word traveler who often features in his photos. Before their Instagram business took off, Jeremy was a personal trainer in Miami Beach and Angie was a model, working with clothing and lifestyle brands.

View this post on Instagram Steamy mornings in the Dolomites! 🏔 TAG someone you would invite here! @hotel_hubertus A post shared by JEREMY AUSTIN (@jeremyaustiin) on Oct 27, 2019 at 6:56am PDT

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Don’t forget me =) I’m sure you’ll enjoy! https://www.instagram.com/danicaspi

Thank you for taking the time to collect all these noteworthy Instagram sites into one easily readable newsletter. Much appreciated! (I just started following four of these Instagram accounts.)

Wow, such an amazing list! My partner and I absolutely loveeeee Jeremy Austin’s account, glad to see you follow him too! 🙂

Incredible! Where is that place in the #1 photo? From Jeremy. Absolutely spectacular!

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Rishnomad has a cool instagram travel account as well. He has traveled everywhere .

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Great article! The travel tips you’ve included are practical and helpful. I’m planning my next vacation, and your suggestions will definitely come in handy. Do you have any personal travel stories or recommendations to share?

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Best Travel Accounts to Follow on Instagram

At a time when the world is slowly recovering from the pandemic, more and more travel aficionados are dreaming of their next trip. Instagram is unparalleled when it comes to feeding users’ wanderlust, and travel bloggers are increasingly taking advantage of the platform to connect with their audiences. Below, we’ve gathered 28 of the best travel Instagrams to follow and have analyzed their content and marketing strategies to give you a head start on your travel account promotion.

@Theblondeabroad

@theblondeabroad is the go-to travel blog and Instagram account for solo and female travelers around the world. Kiersten Reich, the voice behind the blog, is a California native, who changed her corporate wealth management career to traveling the world. Today, she’s been to over 70 countries and has over 500k followers on Instagram, being one of the top travel influencers. Her insanely breathtaking travel photos bring popular destinations to the forefront and may make you dream a little.

In captions, Kiersten shares travel tips, personal experience, and lifestyle advice, as well as announces new blog posts and shares sponsored content. She uses from one to five hashtags on average, indicating destinations, types of trips, sponsors for promoted content, and more. It’s also noteworthy that Kiersten takes the time to answer almost all comments that she gets on her posts, be it a simple thank you, emojis, or a developed response.

@Danielkordan

@daniealkordan may be one of the best Instagram travel accounts out there, as confirmed by over 1.7 million followers on the platform. Daniel is a landscape photographer with a passion for remote places like Japan, Russia, Norway, Antarctica, Mongolia, Greenland, etc. On Instagram, he shares loads of incredible views of dreamy lakes, snow-capped mountains, and breathtaking sunsets. 

Using captions for microblogging, Daniel shares his travel adventures and filming techniques and announces upcoming expeditions and webinars. He adds hashtags to mention a destination, a type of camera, editing tools and more.

@Youngadventuress

Liz Carlson is a blogger behind @youngadventuress, her travel-focused Instagram account with over 200k followers. She’s been to over 60 countries across 7 continents and has had more heart-stopping adventures than most of us could imagine. Her Instagram profile is noted for idyllic photos of New Zealand outdoors and fauna. 

Liz publishes around 10-15 posts per month, and in captions, she shares travel experiences, news, tips, as well as announces giveaways and upcoming expeditions. On a side note, it’s more like a personal blog. Liz doesn’t use too many hashtags, from two to ten on average.

@Theplanetd

The Planet D is an award-winning travel blog and one of the best travel Instagrams 2021, with over 200k followers. Dave and Deb are the bloggers behind ThePlanetD and were even named Top Travel Influencers by Forbes Magazine. They have visited over 115 countries on all 7 continents and are real heavyweights in the travel space. 

Dave and Deb mostly share one picture per post and use captions to describe the location and share camera settings. The number of hashtags varies from a couple to twenty or thirty and include destinations, type of photos and travel, as well as numerous travel-related hashtags like #travelgram, #travellingtheworld, etc. It seems like Dave and Deb try to respond to comments under their posts as far as possible, or at least like them.

@emmett_sparling

Emmet helps top brands from around the world capture their vision through photos and video. On his Instagram profile with over 800k followers, you can find a collection of breathtaking pictures from his explorations all over the world. By sharing his travel experiences with the audiences, Emmet is making his living as one of the fastest-growing Instagram travel bloggers.

Emmet shares carousel and single-picture posts, as well as video clips, reels, IGTV videos and travel guides, featuring a series of publications for the same destination, like India, Europe, or Canada. As for hashtags, he mostly posts them in the comment section and in a large number, about 20 on average.

@Pilotmadeleine

Madeleine is a commercial pilot and a travel blogger with over 1.3 million followers. She fills her feed with vibrant and perfectly styled pictures of her latest discoveries and travel experiences. You can find single-image and carousel posts and reels. To generate engagement, Madeleine runs giveaways and contests, but doesn’t use hashtags much. On average, Madeleine shares a couple of posts per week.

@Lostleblanc

Christian LeBlanc is a travel blogger from Vancouver with over 660k followers on Instagram and YouTube vlogger. At the age of 22, he quit his accounting career and moved to Asia for backpacking. In a year, he saw his social media business take off, and today Christian runs the Lost Creator Academy for content creators.

On Instagram, Christian documents his travel adventures and shares impressive photos and videos from around the world that make us long for the next holiday. On average, he publishes around 3-5 posts weekly. Christian uses captions to share personal thoughts, experiences from his trips or introduce events in his Creator Academy. 

@Wearetravelgirls

This is a travel community aimed at inspiring and educating female travelers all over the world. It brings together travel tips and inspiration from various bloggers, and you can find new content uploaded almost on a daily basis.

The community uses a lot of hashtags to drive traffic – 10 to 20 on average. There are mostly single-image and carousel posts, but you can also find reels, IGTVs and travel guides uniting several publications under the same topic. In captions under each post, you can find a link to the blogger who shared the picture, description of the place and travel tips and hacks. Make sure to tag the community if you’re a female traveler striving for media attention.

@Taramilktea

Tara Whiteman is an Australian travel blogger sharing her favorite finds to over 1.4 million followers on Instagram. A distinctive feature of her account is that publications are beautifully arranged through a kaleidoscope of color, passing from yellow to peach to blue and so on. One of the top Instagram travel accounts, Tara will teach you how to travel in style and live life to the fullest.

Tara shares a lot of reels and some IGTV videos in addition to single-image and carousel posts. She often talks about her travel experiences in destinations and promotes beauty and fashion brands in captions. Hashtags are not a mandatory element in her promotion strategy, although you may encounter a couple of them for sponsored content.

@Finduslost

Selena Taylor is a travel photographer and blogger from Amsterdam. In 2016, she left California for a road trip, which grew into life-changing adventures. Twelve countries and six thousand kilometers later she started the Find Us Lost travel blog to share travel insights, photography, unique destinations and much more. Now, as Selena is based in Amsterdam, you can find a lot of Amsterdam pictures in her Instagram account, as well as some of the world’s most captivating cities, blissful beaches and lush florals.

Selena shares a lot of carousel posts and reels, and in captions, she often announces upcoming blog posts and travel guides. There are between one and eight hashtags on average under Selena’s posts, such as location hashtags or inspiration hashtags. Selena also uses her branded hashtag #finduslostpresets to introduce lightroom presets.

@Muradosmann

Murad Osmann is the mastermind behind the “Follow me” photo series with the iconic hand-holding pose. He is also a film producer, having over 3.7 million followers on Instagram. Together with his wife Natalia, Murad chronicles the world’s most beautiful things and has made it to the list of the top three travel influencers by Forbes.

Murad mostly shares single-picture posts, but there are also carousel posts and reels. He uses captions to describe locations where the photos are shot or share travel experiences. Apart from #followme, Murad doesn’t use many hashtags, just to mention a location or a social campaign from time to time.

@Theprettycities

The community @theprettycities is one of the best travel Instagrams to tag if you’re sharing a picture taken during a city break. If not, the community will add numerous cities to your bucket list. You’ll find photos from different instagram travel influencers, featuring must-go restaurants and quaint streets from various cities across the globe. 

The account features solely single-picture posts, and in the captions, you can find a link to the photo’s author, a short description of a place and a couple of hashtags, including the branded hashtag #theprettycities. In the same vein, you can explore the world’s most popular places from every angle with dedicated travel Instagram accounts @prettycitiesnewyork,  @prettycitylondon, and @prettycitiesdublin_.

@Theslowtraveler

Carolyn, the blogger behind The Slow Traveler with almost 500k followers on Instagram, shares photos of beautiful outdoors in England in a very atmospheric and cohesive compilation. Carolyn doesn’t post often, just four to five times per month, although each post is gaining numerous comments. In the captions, she shares travel experiences, famous quotes, place descriptions, and so on. In contrast to other bloggers, she barely uses hashtags, only for a few posts.

@Thecommonwanderer

If you are looking for an escape from a new reality flooded with COVID news, take a look at @thecommonwanderer, one of the top travel influencers with over 500k followers on Instagram. This is also an award-winning travel blog for travelers seeking authentic experiences in different destinations around the world. 

Adventures that first started with a one-way ticket to Singapore brought Mark and Mim, the masters behind @thecommonwanderer, to over 30 countries, including remote destinations like the Himalayas in Nepal, the temples of Bagan, Namibian sand dunes, and Cambodian jungles. Mark and Mim put them at your fingertips to lust over and make you wish you were right there with them.

On Instagram, Mark and Mim share a lot of reels and carousel posts. The posting frequency varies from a couple to over a dozen posts per month, depending on whether they’re on the road. In captions, you can find a lot of travel tips and tricks to make perfect shots. Notably, Mark and Mim take time to respond to every comment users leave under their posts.

Emily is a travel blogger who shares amazing pictures of many far flung destinations. She is also a co-founder of @seattleinsiders and is setting social media feeds alight with images of Seattle of over 100k followers on Instagram.

In the captions, Emily shares her travel experiences, shooting tips, her own reflections, and so on. She is not a frequent poster, with only a couple of posts uploaded on the platform each month. Emily mostly shares single-picture posts, but there are a few carousel posts every now and then. As for hashtags, Emily either adds a couple of them in captions or uses about 20-30 of them in the comment section to make captions look tidier. She uses a lot of travel-related hashtags like #travelstoke, #followmefaraway, #justgoshoot, and so on.

This amazing account with almost 2 million followers shares photos of a hedgehog Mr Pokee traveling around the world. The idea behind the account was to remind people that there are always reasons to be happy and smile even among all the serious things taking place every day.

Captions are rather short, with a few long stories every once in a while. Not all posts have hashtags, and their number varies from a couple to over a dozen. @mr.pokee is one of those travel accounts that will captivate you for hours on end, with photos of beautiful destinations and stories about adventures of a cute little hedgehog.

@Travelsofali

Ali Alsulaiman is an award-winning photographer with a passion for luxury traveling and a medical doctor who quit his clinical practice to become a full-time traveler. Saudi-born and now London-based, Ali has made it to the top ten Instagram travel influencers , having over 30k followers on the platform. On his account, you can find breathtaking landscapes in different locations around the world as well as pictures of luxury resorts and hotels. 

In captions, Ali describes locations, shares stories and filming conditions, and so much more. He extensively uses hashtags under each post, both in English and Arabic. These are general travel hashtags like #luxuryworldtraveler or #yachtlife, location hashtags like #londonskypool or #corfu. Ali predominantly uses hashtags in captions, separating them from the main text with spaces.

@Paulodelvalle

Paulo del Valle is a Brazilian travel photographer, based in São Paulo. He is also a co-founder and creative director at @thisiscraft, a content marketing agency. On Instagram, Paulo shares stunning pictures of destinations around the world with his 400k followers.

In captions, Paulo often shares shooting and editing tips. He mostly writes in Portuguese but sometimes also translates it into English, and seems to have a pretty strong local community, as most comments under his posts are in Portuguese. Notably, Paulo rarely uses hashtags, for example, just to indicate ongoing social campaigns like #applehouseparaty or link to sponsors or some destinations.

@Alexstrohl

Alex Strohl is a master of landscape photography and a filmmaker. What is really exciting about his works is how Alex manages to capture the beauty and wilderness of nature and show it in the shot. Such an eye for beauty helped Alex acquire over 2 million followers on Instagram.

In captions to his photos, Alex describes locations and camera settings, shares travel adventures and experiences, and personal reflections. Alex likes the comments users leave on his account and responds to them. He doesn’t tag locations with some exceptions nor does he use many hashtags, apart from mentioning ad content like #ad, photo cameras like #CanonCreator or #EOSR5.

@loic.lagarde

Loic Lagarde is a travel photographer from Paris who shares unparalleled images of destinations in France and around the globe with over 170k followers on Instagram. His passion for photography grew when Loic was backpacking around Australia. Today, Loic specializes in shooting destinations and luxury hotels. He has been named the best travel influencer to follow on Instagram by Harper’s Bazaar , and his works have been featured in multiple magazines.

In captions, Loic presents the location in the picture both in French and English. You can learn about the place’s history, architectural features, how the shot was taken, and more. Loic extensively uses hashtags, over 20 in each post. To make captions look tidier, he separates hashtags from the main text with spaces. Notably, he tries to respond to all comments that he gets on his profile.

@Doyoutravel

Jack Morris is a travel blogger based in London with over 2.5 million followers on Instagram. On his account @doyoutravel, Jack shares photos from his travel adventures. He also sells lightroom presets on his website.

Jack shares single picture posts, carousel posts, as well as reels and IGTV videos. In captions, he writes about travel and life experiences, favorite places, upcoming trips, and more. Jack rarely uses hashtags, just to mention ads, social campaigns, etc.

Louis Cole is a travel vlogger with over 1 million followers on Instagram. On his account, Louis shares his travel and life adventures and inspires social changes. You can find single-picture posts, carousel posts, reels, and IGTV videos. 

In captions, Louis shares travel adventures, describes locations and promotes social campaigns. He also runs a lot of contests and giveaways. You can find hashtags for social campaigns like #SayYes or #EarthDayLive. Posting frequency varies a lot from daily sharing in some months to less frequent posting.

Callum Snape is a travel blogger and photographer from Vancouver, Canada, with over 800k followers on Instagram. He’s been pursuing a career in adventure and travel photography for over 12 years and has collaborated with brands like Samsung, Air Canada, Adidas, and more. During this time, Callum has learned to earn a living with his passport in one hand and a camera in the other. If you’re also interested in the art of travel photography, you can subscribe to his newsletter and start getting your bi-weekly dose of inspiration. 

In captions, Callum shares travel adventures and tells stories, presents social media campaigns and offers from brands, and announces posts and ebooks from his blog. He also shares camera settings for some shots. As for hashtags, you can encounter two or three under most posts. They mostly serve to introduce destinations like #inLOVEwithSWITZERLAND or #visitzurich, as well as partners like #swisstravelsystem.

@Thebucketlistfamily

The Bucket List Family is an amazing travel Instagram account with over 2.6 million followers and a YouTube channel with over 1.3 million subscribers. A few years ago, Garrett and Jessica Gee took a leap of faith and sold everything they owned to travel the world with their three kids. They have now been to over 85 countries worldwide.

@TheBucketListFamily is a very genuine account, as Garrett and Jessica sincerely share their family adventures and mishaps. You’ll find a lot of reels and IGTV videos, as well as carousel posts, very real and vivacious. Captions length varies from one sentence to long texts, where Garret and Jessica write about their trips, parenting, and more. They use two to four hashtags on average, and only under some posts. You can find location and animal hashtags, travel-related hashtags like #bucketlist, and more.

@Jamesrelfdyer

James Relf Dyer is a UK-based travel and adventure photographer with over 260k followers on Instagram. He shares travel adventures around the world and introduces custom-made presets. James shares new posts quite often, from daily uploads to several posts per week.

In captions, James talks about travel adventures and creating pictures, promotes travel brands and shares discounts, and describes the best spots to visit in different destinations. He uses hashtags extensively, over 20 for each post, separating them from the main text in captions with spaces. They include location hashtags and also various travel-related hashtags like #passionpassport, #earthfocus, or #vacations.

@Chelseakauai

Chelsea Kauai is a travel blogger from Hawaii with a passion for adventure travel, diving and care for the environment. She has been to over 50 countries around the world, which got her over 1 million followers on Instagram. 

Together with beautifully staged photos, Chelsea shares real-life pictures and videos from backstage. She often posts reels, as well as IGTV videos. There is also a guides section, accumulating over 20 publications about travel around South Africa. In the captions, Chelsea shares her travel adventures, personal life, editing tips, as well as giveaways, and attracts attention to social and environmental matters. She mostly uses hashtags for sponsored content and social campaigns.

@Saltinourhair

Hannah and Nick are award-winning travel bloggers with 250k followers on Instagram. Before their Instagram business and blog took off, Hannah was a graphic designer and Nick was a web developer. They have turned their passion for travel, photography, and creativity into travel blogging and are creators of the SaltInOurHair.com blog.

On @saltinourhair, you can find travel guides, tips for sustainable tourism, and guides to the digital nomad lifestyle. In captions, they write about destinations and share editing tips, as well as introduce their own photo and video filters. They use hashtags under each post, including locations and general travel-related hashtags. In fact, using popular hashtags as well as promoting content on Pinterest is what drove a lot of traffic to their Instagram page and blog .

@Jordhammond

Jord is a travel influencer whose otherworldly photography garnered him over 780k followers on Instagram. He also runs courses on travel photography editing, Instagram growth, and the business of travel photography. On his Instagram, you can find incredibly beautiful photography of landscapes, architectural monuments and cities from around the world, as well as drone photography.

In captions, Jord talks about traveling to different destinations, introduces his own products like tutorials, courses, etc., promotes brands, and more. He uses one or two hashtags under a post, if any at all. These are, for example, destination hashtags like #croatiafulloflife or hashtags for sponsored content like #LUMIX or #ShotOnLumix.

Are you ready to follow suit and embark on growing your own travel account on Instagram? Then, it is the time for action! Take advantage of the recovery of the tourism industry and jump on the bandwagon.

6 Awe-Inspiring Examples of Instagram Marketing for Travel Companies

This content discusses the importance of Instagram for travel companies and provides examples of successful Instagram strategies used by popular brands.

Did you know that over 60% of people aged 18-34 believe the ‘Instagrammability’ of a location is the most important factor in deciding a holiday destination?Users crave likes and positive reinforcement when they take vacations. This manifests as tons of beautiful user-generated photos and videos filling Instagram’s feed.It gives you an insight into how critical Instagram is for travel companies. There is no better place to show off a picturesque location. We’re programmed to double-click a photo or tag a friend in the comments if we think it looks stunning.While some may tell you that organic reach is dying on the platform, this is completely untrue for things of beauty. Pristine photos and videos of iconic holiday locations will never get old. It taps into the inner emotion of users who wish you could transport them from the mundane day-to-day grind into what comes across as idyllic.So they like, comment, and share. Your reach grows.But Instagram marketing for travel companies goes beyond crystal clear water and pure white sand beaches. Let’s look at some first-class examples of travel companies on Instagram which you can draw inspiration from.

Expedia is one of the most iconic travel brands globally, and its Instagram profile is a reflection of that memorability.What I love most about Expedia’s Instagram strategy is its use of Reels - the most popular content on this social network at the moment.

Via high-quality video (often taken by a drone), Expedia takes its followers to locations they have only ever dreamed of. They partner these videos with provocative, consistent, and on-brand overlay text that piques interest.The result? Thousands of organic views every time.Consider how you can incorporate regular Reels into your strategy to increase your reach dramatically.

2. Travel Nevada

Travel Nevada’s Instagram profile shines a light on its most recognizable landmarks and locations. From Lake Tahoe to Rubies Route and The Loneliest Road in America, you can sink your teeth into videos, photos, and maps of this vast and beautiful state.I particularly like how they feature these memorable locations in the Stories Highlights section, with cover photos that resemble the Travel Nevada logo:

Categorizing content as Highlights makes it easier for followers to find your best collateral. This section is also one of the first things a user will see when they land on your profile.Travel Nevada’s effective social media strategy goes far beyond Instagram. For example, discover how it grew its email list with personality quizzes using ShortStack.

3. Skyscanner

Next up is Skyscanner , one of the world’s biggest search engines for travelers booking flights, hotels, and cars.What makes Skyscanner’s Instagram profile so interesting? Its use of Instagram Guides is what caught my eye.If you’re unfamiliar with Instagram Guides, I’m not surprised. It’s a feature that has only been available since late 2020, and the uptake has been underwhelming.But for travel companies, it’s an excellent way to organize your content and uniquely engage with followers.You can add places, titles, and descriptions to photos in your catalog to create a sequential way for users to visualize a travel destination (or a series of destinations).For example, Skyscanner has a Guide titled “Awesome Architecture” that shows off “Brilliant buildings from around the globe.”

Guides are added to your Instagram profile as an easy-to-find tab next to Posts, Reels, and Videos.

4. Lonely Planet

A list of travel brands wouldn’t be complete without Lonely Planet . It has over 3 million followers on Instagram alone, but its reach is far greater than that.One thing Lonely Planet does very well on Instagram is to use mini-games to increase post engagement. For example, check out the photo below of a sunset in Greece, overlaid with the text “The best sunset I ever saw was in _______” .

The trick is to make questions like this widely relatable (the sun sets every day, everywhere) and easy to answer (just one or two words). It’s no surprise this post has almost one thousand comments!

Airbnb is an interesting addition to this list because it’s less about the location and the scenery, and more about the unique homes of its hosts.For decades, the attraction of traveling has been to uncover secret caves, beautiful mountains, and jaw-dropping views. Airbnb creates a similar sense of excitement and awe from the architecture and surroundings of its homes.All of its content features popular stays, inside and out, to entice potential travelers into planning a vacation. Here are a few examples, but I’d highly recommend looking at its Insta profile!

What can you learn from Airbnb? There is more to travel than the scenery. Culture and experience are embedded in every aspect of a vacation.

6. Intrepid Travel

Intrepid Travel is “On a mission to create positive change through the joy of travel.” When it comes to Instagram, its focus on people makes it stand out. Rather than simply sharing photos of landmarks, architecture, and scenery, Intrepid captures the moments that matter to travelers - the personal experience and joy of being in a beautiful new location with no troubles. Followers can visualize themselves doing the same thing.You’ll notice that almost all of its content includes personal travel experiences:

Be sure to include at least some photos of people in your content so that it resonates on a deeper level with your target audience.

Instagram is the perfect social media network for travel companies due to its visual nature. It also allows you to organize your content using Guides, Highlights, Hashtags, and more.Organized information is critical when planning a vacation. While a stunning photo may catch someone’s attention, the structure of your content allows them to truly immerse in a location and plan a trip.Think of your Instagram profile as a modern-day travel brochure. All the information, excitement, and details a trip planner needs to get started should be available.Are you maximizing your use of Instagram? What could you learn from the examples shared in this article?

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Instagram for Travel Brands : Capturing the Wanderlust

In the digital age, Instagram has emerged as a pivotal platform for travel brands, offering a unique space to showcase destinations, experiences, and stories. With its visually-driven format, Instagram is perfectly suited to the travel industry, where compelling images and videos can transport viewers to far-flung places, sparking their wanderlust and inspiring travel plans.

Key Takeaways:

• Setting Up a Winning Instagram Profile: Your profile is your brand’s digital storefront.
• Content Strategy: A mix of business and pleasure keeps followers engaged.
• Leveraging Instagram’s Unique Features: Stories, Reels, and IGTV offer diverse content opportunities.
• Engaging with Your Audience: Active engagement builds a loyal community.
• Utilizing User-Generated Content: Encourages community participation and content variety.

Setting Up a Winning Instagram Profile

Creating an Instagram profile that resonates with the millennial audience involves more than just a few pretty pictures. It’s about crafting a digital identity that’s both authentic and aspirational.

Tips for Profile Optimization

• Username and Bio: Choose a username that’s easily recognizable and a bio that succinctly captures your brand’s essence.
• Profile Picture: Your logo or a signature image that represents your brand.
• Consistent Aesthetic: Maintain a consistent color scheme and style in your posts to create a visually appealing grid.

Content Strategy: Balancing Business and Pleasure

The secret sauce to a successful Instagram presence for travel brands lies in striking the right balance between business-focused content and posts that are purely for enjoyment.

Mixing Business with Engaging Content

• Showcase Destinations: Highlight the beauty and uniqueness of various destinations.
• Behind-the-Scenes: Share the unseen aspects of travel experiences.
• Customer Stories: Feature testimonials or experiences of real customers.

Leveraging Instagram’s Unique Features

Instagram offers a plethora of features that can be creatively used to enhance your brand’s storytelling.

Stories, Reels, IGTV

• Stories: Perfect for sharing fleeting moments or daily activities.
• Reels: Create short, engaging videos that showcase destinations in a fun way.
• IGTV: Ideal for longer-form content like destination guides or interviews.

Engaging with Your Audience

Building a community on Instagram isn’t just about posting great content; it’s also about how you interact with your audience.

Strategies for Growing an Active Follower Base

• Respond to Comments: Show your followers that you value their input by engaging in conversations.
• Host Contests: Encourage participation and interaction.
• Collaborations: Partner with influencers or other brands to reach new audiences.

Utilizing User-Generated Content

Encouraging your followers to share their travel experiences can provide authentic content for your brand and foster a sense of community.

Building a Community Around Your Brand

• Hashtag Campaigns: Create a branded hashtag for travelers to use.
• Feature Followers: Regularly share user-generated content on your profile.
• Engagement: Acknowledge and appreciate contributions from your community.

Table 1: Instagram User Statistics

Influencer Collaborations: A Game Changer

In the world of Instagram, influencers are the new-age celebrities. Collaborating with them can significantly amplify your brand’s reach and credibility.

Partnering with Influencers

• Choose Wisely: Align with influencers who share your brand values and aesthetics.
• Authenticity is Key: Authentic content resonates more with audiences than overly promotional posts.
• Track ROI: Use analytics to measure the success of influencer campaigns.

Measuring Success: Analytics and Adjustments

Understanding the impact of your Instagram strategy is crucial. Analytics provide insights into what works and what doesn’t, allowing for data-driven decisions.

Utilizing Instagram Analytics

• Engagement Rates: Track likes, comments, and shares to gauge content popularity.
• Follower Growth: Monitor your follower growth trends.
• Content Performance: Identify which types of posts are performing best.

Table 2: Top Instagram Hashtags for Travel

Rewarding Followers and Building Loyalty

Your followers are your brand’s ambassadors. Rewarding them can foster loyalty and encourage more engagement.

Strategies to Reward Followers

• Exclusive Content: Offer sneak peeks or special content for followers.
• Giveaways and Contests: Host contests with travel-related prizes.
• Shoutouts: Feature followers’ content or stories on your profile.

Showcasing Photos of Employees

Humanizing your brand is essential. Showcasing your team’s experiences and stories can make your brand more relatable and trustworthy.

Behind-the-Scenes with Your Team

• Employee Takeovers: Let team members take over your Instagram for a day.
• Team Adventures: Share your team’s travel experiences or office moments.
• Meet the Team: Introduce your employees to your followers.

Treat Followers to a Visual Experience

Instagram is a visual platform, and your content should be visually appealing and engaging.

Creating Visually Compelling Content

• High-Quality Images: Ensure your photos are of high quality and aesthetically pleasing.
• Storytelling: Use captions and images to tell engaging stories.
• Diverse Content: Mix up your content types – photos, videos, carousels.

Table 3: Instagram Engagement Rates by Follower Count

Use Industry-Related Hashtags

Hashtags are your gateway to reaching a broader audience. Using relevant and trending hashtags can increase your content’s visibility.

Hashtag Best Practices

• Relevant Hashtags: Use hashtags that are relevant to your content and audience.
• Trending Hashtags: Keep an eye on trending travel hashtags.
• Branded Hashtags: Create and promote your own branded hashtag.

Video Important Brand Moments

Videos can capture the essence of a destination or experience in a way that photos cannot. They are crucial for storytelling and engagement.

Leveraging Video Content

• Short Clips: Use Reels for quick, engaging videos.
• Longer Stories: Share longer experiences or stories through IGTV.
• Live Sessions: Host live Q&As or virtual tours.

Instagram offers a world of possibilities for travel brands to engage with their audience, tell compelling stories, and build a loyal community. By leveraging these strategies, your brand can not only capture the wanderlust of your audience but also inspire their next adventure.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can travel brands effectively use instagram to engage their audience.

Answer: Travel brands can engage their audience on Instagram by sharing high-quality, visually appealing images and videos of destinations, behind-the-scenes content, user-generated content, and interactive stories. Utilizing hashtags, geotags, and collaborating with influencers can also increase reach and engagement.

What are the best practices for travel brands to grow their followers on Instagram?

Answer: To grow followers, travel brands should consistently post engaging content, use relevant hashtags, engage with their audience through comments and direct messages, and collaborate with influencers and other brands. Hosting giveaways and contests can also attract new followers.

How can travel brands measure the success of their Instagram marketing efforts?

Answer: Success can be measured through various metrics such as follower growth, engagement rates (likes, comments, shares), reach, impressions, and click-through rates to their website. Instagram Insights provides valuable data on audience demographics and behavior.

What type of content performs best for travel brands on Instagram?

Answer: Stunning landscapes, cultural insights, local cuisine, and authentic experiences often perform well. User-generated content, such as photos from customers, also resonates with audiences. Stories and reels featuring unique travel tips, destination highlights, and interactive elements like polls and Q&As are effective.

How important is it for travel brands to use Instagram Stories and Reels?

Answer: Very important. Instagram Stories and Reels offer a dynamic way to showcase destinations and experiences. They are highly engaging formats that allow for creative storytelling, real-time updates, and a more personal connection with the audience. They also have a wider reach due to their prominent placement on the platform.

ONE CHEL OF AN ADVENTURE

50+ instagram accounts that will feature your epic travel photos.

Getting featured on a big travel Instagram account is a great way to get more eyes on your travel photos and helps you gain more followers.  These feature accounts  definitely helped me grow my following on @onechelofanadventure . So here is a list of the Best Travel Instagram Accounts to tag and to get featured:

Travel Instagram Accounts That Feature Travel Photos

I originally wrote this post in 2016, but have updated for 2020. And of course, feel free to tag me too  — I love seeing all your photos and always try to like and comment on photos I am tagged in!

@cntraveler

tag #IamATraveler or #CNTraveler 

@beautifuldestinations

tag @beautifuldestinations or #beautifuldestinations

@beautifulhotels

tag @ beautifulhotels or #beautifulhotels

@traveldudes

follow and #traveldudes to be featured

@travelbloggeres

Tag @Travelbloggeres and #amtb

@femmetravel

Hashtag #Femmetravel to be featured — Women only

@wearetravelgirls

#wearetravelgirls to be featured

@bestvacations

#bestvacations to be featured 

@dametraveler

#dametraveler or tag in photo to be featured — women only

#igshotz to be featured 

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@travelandlife.

Follow and #travelandlife to be featured

@worldplaces

tag #worldplaces to be featured

@travelandleisure

#TLPicks for a chance to be featured on the T+L account

@darlingescapes

#darlingescapes for feature — women only

@travelanddestinations

Tag @travelanddestinations for feature

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@travelawesome.

#TravelAwesome to be featured

@sheisnotlost

tag #sheisnotlost for female travellers

@travellershouts

#travellershouts to be featured

@backpackerstory

Hashtag #Backpackerstory or share your story on their Facebook page

@passionpassport

#passionpassport to be featured

@lonelyplanet

Tag your pics with #lonelyplanet or #mylpguide for a chance to be featured!

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@radgirlscollective.

#radgirlslife or #radgirltravel to be featured — women only

@culturetrip

Use  #culturetrip  to be featured

@discoverearth

Tag  #discoverearth  for a feature

@wonderful_places

#wonderful_places to be featured 

@condenasttraveller

Tag @condenasttraveller for a chance to be features on their #TagUsTuesday

@ModernOutdoors

Hashtag  #modernoutdoors to be featured 

@campfire_daily

#campfire_daily to feature camping and outdoorsy photos 

@camping_lifestyle

tag #camping_lifestyle to feature camping photos

@theglobejumpers

#globejumpers #keepjumping to feature your jumping photos from around the world 

@theglobewanderer

#theglobewanderer to be featured 

@discoverglobe

Tag your photos  #discoverglobe  to be featured

@hotelsandresorts

#hotelsandresorts or tag @hotelsandresorts

@earthfocus

#earthfocus to be featured

@ladiesgoneglobal

#ladiesgoneglobal for repost

@worldnomads

#worldnomads to be featured

@underwaterwednesday

#underwaterwednesday to feature your underwater photos 

@outdoorwomen

#outdoorwomen to feature your outdoor women photos

@schooloftravel

Tag your Instagram photo with #schooloftravel to be featured

@wanderlustinitiative

tag @wanderlustiniative to be featured

@tropicaladdicted

hashtag #tropicaladdicted and tag @tropicaladdicted to be featured 

@sidewalkerdaily

#SidewalkerDaily For A Feature

@forbestravelguide

#ForbesTravelGuide for a chance to be featured on their account!

@alpinebabes

#alpinebabes to feature women travel photos in the mountains

@createscenery

Tag #createscenery for feature

@beautifulcuisines

For all you travel foodies, tag #beautifulcuisines

@wilderness_culture

Tag #wildernessculture for feature

@bucketlisters

#bucketlisters for feature

@world_shotz

#theworldshotz or #theworldshotz_bnw to be featured

@bestplaces_togo

Tag #bestplaces_togo

@adventure_culture

#adventureculture for feature

Share your travel moments with #ExpediaPic

#orbitzpic to be featured

@drinkaroundtheworld

Tag @drinkaroundtheworld or DM

@packedforgood

#packedforgood for a chance to be featured on their account!

@travellerspath

Tag #travellerspath to be featured

@travellingthroughtheworld

Tag #travellingthroughtheworld for features

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32 thoughts on “ 50+ instagram accounts that will feature your epic travel photos ”.

Thanks for sharing.You put a lot of effort into writing this! We would love to read another article about a list of travel bloggers to follow on Instagram too! Enjoy your trip to OZ! You will love it! Next year we are taking a year off and we will probably spend 6 months in South America then we will probably go to Europe. We cannot wait to go! Keep up the good work! Patrick and Cecile from http://www.travel4lifeblog.com

Yeah it did take a while haha! Yes I am loving Australia, it’s wonderful 🙂 your trip sounds amazing!!

I’ve just made a new predictive text list with all of these hashtags! You’ve saved me so much time! Thank you! On a side note I feature one travel photo each Tuesday from my followers who use the hashtag #maketimetoseetheworld on the Insta account & blog of the same name 🙂

SO glad I could help 🙂 thanks for sharing that hashtag, I will definitely add that to my list!

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This is awesome 😀

Thank you! Glad it could help 🙂

wow, just gonna bookmark all your posts about instagram​ lol

haha! I still go through them before I post myself 🙂

Thanks for sharing this u saved a lot of time 🙂

Hey! Another great account I found to repost is @earthpano is you have any landscapes that are instaworthy!

Oooh that’s good to know! Thank you!

Great list! I use a lot of the already but good to find out more to mix and match!

Awesome 🙂 Glad you found it useful!

This is a very valuable list with accounts I didn’t know about. Thanks a lot for putting in the effort!

Glad you found it helpful 🙂

I Can be mistaken but most of these accounts charge to feature.

Hi Laura! I know quite a few of these on here do not charge for features. Some might, but many just feature amazing content!

Don’t forget about @blueridgemoments !

That is a good one! I will have to add it, thanks!

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Thanks a lot for this helpful information. We’ll try them out

Awesome list Chelsea! Fyi – It looks like @exploreshareinspire has transformed into an account with risque content. I opened the link up on my work machine and quickly exited out as it was not what I thought it was.

Oh my goodness! Thank you for letting me know — taking that one off right now! I do need to go through and double check all these. It has been a while since I’ve done that, so thank you!

Thanks for the list. It’s very helpful.

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18 Instagram accounts to follow for brand inspiration

Written by by Chloe West

Published on  March 26, 2021

Reading time  15 minutes

When it comes to social media marketing, you can often get some fresh ideas from looking at what other brands are doing online and implementing some of those same tactics in a way that makes sense for your brand.

To jumpstart your Instagram inspiration, we put together a list of 18 of the best brands on Instagram, and what they’re doing that makes their content so great.

These brands represent some of the best business accounts across six different industries, and can help you with inspiration for your strategy whether they fall under your industry or not. Take a look at some of the most creative Instagram accounts to follow right now.

Learn how to develop and implement your Instagram marketing strategy today.

Best food & restaurant brands on Instagram

We all love to look at yummy food pics, right? So it’s no surprise that food and restaurant brands do really well on Instagram. Here are a few different brands that really stand out. A recent study on social media benchmarks found that the food & beverage industry sees a 1.690% average engagement rate per post, compared to only 0.120% on Facebook and 0.058% on Twitter. Here are a few of the best brands on Instagram in the restaurant space that really stand out.

Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers

@freddysusa – 41.8k followers

Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers is a large chain restaurant with locations around America. Their Instagram is filled with delicious photos of their food, and yet they still make it a priority to highlight their owner, Freddy. If you take a look at their Instagram Story highlights, you’ll see “F R E D D Y” listed as one of the options

By highlighting their popular owner, Freddy’s is creating authentic content that is true to the brand’s values. It just goes to show that no matter how big you get, you can still have that down-home feeling and community around your business.

How to use this strategy:

Make it a priority to highlight the people in your organization, such as the owner, CEO or founder. You can also include the rest of the team to help showcase your culture. Try sharing employee spotlights regularly and consider creating an Instagram Story highlight specifically for team outings and celebrations like work anniversaries, events and more.

Sprouts Farmers Market

@sprouts – 170k followers

As a grocery store focusing on produce and healthy eating, Sprouts takes visual cues directly from their produce to create a gorgeous grid of rainbow hues. Their use of color and pattern turns their Instagram into a revolving rainbow, focusing on one color for 6 to 9 posts before they move on to the next color in sequence.

Take a look at the above transition from blue to purple to pink. Scrolling through their feed is a bright, happy burst of color.

There are so many ways to use color in your feed. You, too, can create a beautiful pattern of hues in your own Instagram content. If you want to be sure that your grid will match your vision once your content is published, try out Sprout’s Instagram grid preview feature .

One way to accomplish this is by focusing your Instagram content on a single color or two, like your main brand color(s). Try sharing images that utilize a shade of your brand’s color palette in a way that makes it stand out in the photo and in your feed.

@chipotle – 671k followers

As stated in their Instagram bio, Chipotle delivers memes and burritos. Their Instagram feed is a hilarious collection of content, including screenshots of tweets alongside their very own Chipotle memes to keep their audience engaged and hungry.

Who doesn’t love a good meme? While Chipotle could certainly fill their Instagram feed with only professional photos of their food, they’ve opted for something a bit more unique. Instead of running with a strictly-visual strategy, Chipotle focuses on combining brand personality and the appeal of their food first. Staying true to the brand throughout their Instagram feed is an incredibly engaging approach to building meaningful relationships with their fans.

Your social presence means a lot to people According to the Sprout Social Index™ , 74% of consumers think the publishing sweet spot for brands is 1-2 posts per day. So how do you keep people coming back to your networks? One way is to maximize engagement by knowing the best times to post. Try out ViralPost by Sprout with a free 30-day trial today .

If personality and humor are important for your brand, try focusing on humor as well as visual appeal. Does humor, snark, and utilizing memes fit with your brand voice or personality? Then trying a less conventional approach to Instagram might be a great strategy idea! Try using memes, Twitter screenshots, and funny photos and videos in your Instagram strategy to maximize engagement.

Matt Adlard – Topless Baker

@mattadlard – 596k followers

Matt Adlard, previously known as Topless Baker, is a baking influencer on Instagram. He shares absolutely beautiful videos of his creations and does an incredible job of utilizing video thumbnails as well. I mean, look at those desserts!

But what is most impressive about his Instagram presence is his use of Stories. As he states in his bio, he’s a self-taught baker, and he’s always working on learning new recipes and ideas for putting together these incredible concoctions.

He documents his processes of trying out new things on his Instagram Stories and shares the entire journey, whether it’s a success or a failure, with his audience.

People love to get a behind-the-scenes look. If you take a look at Matt’s Instagram feed, you might think he knows absolutely everything there is to know about baking and that everything he creates turns out perfectly on the first try.

If you watch his Stories, you’ll soon find out that this is absolutely not the case. And this is why he’s been able to grow such a dedicated and engaged audience.

To achieve this approach, try sharing your own behind-the-scenes look in Instagram Stories . It will humanize your brand and help you connect with your audience.

And if you’re curious how about your Stories are performing, you can use Sprout Social’s Instagram reports to keep track of your audience and how they interact with your Instagram story.

@wendys – 874k followers

While many people end up in a fast food drive thru ordering a quick dinner without a second thought, Wendy’s certainly isn’t selling that narrative on their Instagram feed. Wendy’s stays true to their brand on Instagram by using bright colors and creative food layouts within their Instagram feed. This emphasis on color and creativity elevates Wendy’s delicious food as Instagram art.

Don’t sell yourself short when it comes to visualizing your product.

Even if you think you have an overcrowded industry and have trouble standing out among the crowd, there are always ways to step outside of the box with creative Instagram ideas . To achieve this strategy, try positioning your product in unique ways to create abstract art, or use user-generated content to liven up your feed.

@unbirthday.co – 243k followers

Unbirthday is the creator of insanely unique cakes and chocolates for many different events, and their gorgeous Instagram feed will make you crave one of their cakes. Their photos are bright and beautiful, helping to create a cohesive and visually appealing feed.

They even include a loose grid pattern in their feed, alternating between styled photos against a pink backdrop with cake setup and venue photos.

Using a pattern in your Instagram grid is a great way to make content creation easier on yourself while helping to ensure an aesthetically pleasing feed. Our brains love patterns, and knowing what type of photo needs to be published next can definitely help make your overall strategy easier to manage.

Best fashion & beauty brands on Instagram

Fashion and beauty brands on Instagram are a natural fit when it comes to beautiful content.

Here’s a list of some of the best fashion and beauty brands on Instagram, along with the tactics they’re utilizing that make them so popular.

Lush Cosmetics

@lushcosmetics – 4.4m followers

Lush is a well-known beauty brand famous for creating eco-friendly products and production standards. To take that a step further, they regularly work with charities and organizations that promote eco-friendly habits. As you can see in their profile right now, they’re focusing on the conservation of sharks. Lush puts an emphasis on sharing information about this movement within their feed, Stories and in their bio.

Share information about a charity or organization that is near and dear to your brand’s heart. When people see that your brand helps out with local or global movements, they’re that much more likely to support you so they feel good about helping too.

Ring Concierge

@ringconcierge – 219k followers

Ring Concierge is a popular woman-owned fine diamond jewelry brand. And their feed is full of diamonds! That’s enough for anybody to obsess over, right?

Their feed is creative and beautiful, but what really stands out is the brand’s emphasis on Instagram’s shopping features .

Ring Concierge tags every available product on nearly every photo they share on Instagram. This makes it incredibly easy for her followers to see something they like and quickly buy it.

Not only that, but if you tag a product multiple times, users can click on the product in a photo and are able to access every photo that product is in so they can see it in use in many different ways.

Use Instagram Shopping! If you have an e-commerce business, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be taking advantage of this incredible feature. It’s a great way to show off your products and make it that much easier for your followers to make a purchase from you.

@teva – 463k followers

Teva finds a fit for their brand’s all-terrain sandals with user-generated content (UGC). User-generated content means that they’re sharing photos that their customers create and share on their own feeds.

It’s a genius strategy because you’re able to get even more content for your brand’s Instagram feed without actually having to invest in content creation. For Teva, it’s a perfect fit since it shows off all the different places and situations people are bringing their shoes.

Create a hashtag that customers use to be featured or ask your audience to tag your brand in any photos they take of your product. This way, you have access to your own library of user-generated content that you can pull from whenever.

And if you have a lot of customers sharing your photos, you could dedicate your entire content strategy to UGC. As long as the photos are well lit and beautiful, sharing them to your own feed is a great way to increase your content as well as provide social proof that others love your product.

To make your UGC strategy even easier, you can store all future photos in Sprout Social’s Asset Library, along with a snippet of text to remind yourself who you got the photo from.

Best health & fitness brands on Instagram

Instagram is a great place to follow inspirational accounts to help you reach your #goals, so health and fitness brands get a lot of traction on the platform. Here are a few of our top recommendations for health & fitness brands to follow on Instagram.

mindbodygreen

@mindbodygreen – 780k followers

Mindbodygreen is a digital health and wellness publication focusing on helping readers to live their best lives. And they use their Instagram account to help nurture that focus directly with their audience.

Their feed consists of lifestyle photos, motivational quotes, and mini infographics that share helpful information with their audience.

Using graphics like these to quickly introduce various topics is a great way to both engage and educate your audience. You can easily create similar mini infographics using an online graphic design tool like Canva or Visme with little to no design skills.

@lululemon – 2.9m followers

Lululemon is a workout apparel company that focuses on motivation in their Instagram feed. Obviously the more that people work out, the more they’re going to be interested in Lululemon’s products, so they want to inspire people to get moving.

By showcasing people using their products, especially in fun-loving groups that appear to be having a great time, they’re getting the gears moving in their followers’ minds about how they, too, can use Lululemon clothing in their own lives.

Show off how people can use your product in your Instagram feed. People would understand the basics about Lululemon’s product if their feed was solely flatlays of their products, but sharing images of people actually on the go, wearing Lululemon, and having a great time doing it is way more powerful. It’s one thing to see a product – by seeing someone using it in a lifestyle context, it becomes much more vivid and inspirational.

@9roundofficial – 29.4k followers

9Round is a kickboxing gym that has various franchise locations all around the country. They share teasers to their recent blogs, exercises for their followers, and lifestyle photos of people using their fitness centers.

But one of the most effective aspects of their Instagram profile is their clear call-to-action in their bio. Their bio clearly details that the first workout with 9Rounds is free, giving people the chance to try out kickboxing before they sign up. They let their audience know this right in their bio and include a link to a page with a contact form that allows them to immediately sign up to get their free workout.

Put together a startup deal or offer for new customers and tease it in all of your social media bios . Link to a landing page specifically for that offer. Letting people know how to immediately take action with your business helps to generate even more clicks and sign-ups.

46% of consumers say they follow brands on social media to have access to exclusive deals or promotions, and this is a great way to make that happen.

Best home decor & interior design brands on Instagram

Home decor is yet another popular industry on Instagram, simply because of how beautiful these photos can be. Check out some popular home decor & interior design brands on Instagram and what they’re doing right.

Design Within Reach

@designwithinreach – 420k followers

Design Within Reach is a furniture retailer with some seriously beautiful photography on their Instagram. As Instagram is a visual platform, it’s a good idea to put a heavy focus on imagery. And DWR is doing it right. Their grid shows off their products both in lifestyle contexts that help you imagine the pieces in your home, as well as more aspirational and inspirational design ideas.

For some product niches, it simply makes sense to invest in professional photography. Sharing photos that are professionally styled, lit, and photographed is a great way to draw people in and keep them engaged with your content. Plus it shows off your products in the absolute best light they could be viewed in.

@ikeausa – 1.9m followers

Everyone knows and loves the Swedish furniture company IKEA. Raise your hand if you’ve ever taken a road trip just to follow those arrows around the store and pretend you live in one of their many showcase rooms.

They show off their products within their Instagram, and IKEA is using another creative technique to let people know exactly where to buy the products in the photos.

Check out their caption. The last sentence says “Shop our Instagram pictures” and leads to a link. They’ve used Curalate to create a landing page that links every one of their photos directly to the product page on their website.

Curalate is a great option, but there are many other ways to create an Instagram-specific link in bio as well. Linktree helps to create several links in your bio, and Leadpages can help you to put together a landing page to send Instagram followers to.

But it’s a great idea to include a link in your bio to something other than just your website homepage. Whether it’s an Instagram-only landing page, a Curalate page with all of your Instagram photos linked to corresponding website pages, or a Linktree page with a few different links, you want to give your audience options to get immediately in touch with what they see on your feed.

@westelm – 2m followers

West Elm is a furniture store that has various locations around the country. While they’re doing a lot of things right on their feed (professional photography, asking for user-generated content, etc.), we want to focus on their Story highlights.

Most of their Story highlights are beautifully branded, adding to their profile’s overall brand strength. They’ve also shared a few really great Stories, including beautiful home tours (complete with swipe up links to the full tour on their website) and vertical how-to videos.

Vertical video is huge right now with Instagram Stories and videos , and West Elm shows you how you can use it even for a more complex topic like home decor tutorials.

It’s not enough to just focus on Stories. You should also focus on creating and sharing Stories that you can save to your highlights. These Stories stay at the top of your Instagram profile for longer than 24 hours, so they’re a highly visible spot to showcase your most essential, evergreen content.

Create branded highlight covers and make it a focus to create valuable, highlight-able Story content in addition to your regularly scheduled feed content.

Best travel brands on Instagram

When looking for places to travel, people love to browse social media for inspiration. Travel brands have to create awesome content to reach people that could potentially be visiting their location for anything from vacation planning to a quick stop on a road trip. Here are a few of our recommended travel brands to follow on Instagram.

Four Seasons

@fourseasons – 933k followers

The Four Seasons brand has a ton of reach with different hotels and resorts all over the world. They’ve put a huge focus on user-generated content and share some of the best photos they get tagged in.

One thing they do that sets them apart, though, is that they tag which Four Seasons location each photo was taken at. This is extremely helpful for each of those hotels to find location-specific content, but also helps their audience to know which Four Seasons they might want to stay at based on the photo.

If your business has multiple locations or franchises, you likely have different Instagram and other social media profiles per location. But if you also keep a main or official presence, tagging specific locations is a great idea. This helps audience members to find a location close to them, or even a location they might want to travel to.

Even if you don’t have a multi-location business, tagging other brands in captions, even if they’re not affiliated with you directly, is a great way to curate business-to-business relationships. If there’s a business next door to you or if your team goes on an outing at a local business, tagging the location is a great way to create engagement between your two brands.

@expedia – 245k followers

Expedia is a travel service website, so naturally they share tons of beautiful photos from around the world. Their feed includes user-generated content as well as stock photos of beautiful sights.

They also use their Instagram to promote major giveaways and contests.

I mean, who wouldn’t want a $50k vacation for free? This is a great way to give back to their customers and engage their Instagram audience.

Every business should run contests and giveaways on social media every now and then. You certainly don’t have to do anything close to a $50,000 giveaway, but $50 to $500 is definitely a great incentive.

You can include various entry requirements, like an Instagram follow, liking your photo, and tagging friends in comments to spread the word. This helps to grow your following, increase brand awareness, and say thank you to your dedicated customers.

@jetblue – 365k followers

JetBlue is a popular airline and shares a lot of flying photos. One unique branded idea they’ve implemented is create the hashtag #WingCrushWednesday, and every Wednesday they share a user-generated photo that includes part of a JetBlue airplane wing in the photo.

This helps to improve brand recognition as well as smartly incorporating customer photos into their strategy.

Creating a hashtag that’s relevant to your business and allows you to share recurring content each week or so. Not only does this help with your content creation process (it’s always easier to create content if one day a week follows the same theme), it’s fun for your audience to see what you’re going to share next.

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The 22 Best Instagram Travel Accounts To Inspire You

Instagram is simple, it’s visual and it creates a quick emotional impact! It’s also a great way to discover new places around the world. No wonder I’m always seeking the best Instagram travel accounts to follow!

Even though I despise the direction Instagram is going, with self-proclaimed influencers spreading like wildfire ( beautypreneurs is a thing now…) I confess I do spend a significant amount of time there .

Sometimes double tapping cat videos. Sometimes stalking my friends. But I’m especially interested in new travel inspiration. And now I’m sharing them with you (the travel content, not the cats).

Best Instagram Travel Accounts to Follow >>

For this list, I tried to avoid hollow influencers who only use travel as a way of getting new backdrops for their own photos. The world needs valuable content, interesting things to learn and see and especially people who truly love to travel.

With no particular order, these are my favorite Instagram travel bloggers to feed your wanderlust (list updated May 2019). They are travel bloggers, Youtube stars, journalists or simple amateurs sharing real, honest, and interesting content.

Let’s get inspired!

1 @paulodelvalle

Paulo’s was one of the first accounts I followed in Instagram. He’s a Brazilian travel photographer, but mostly a storyteller. His amazing photos in the most varied landscapes inspired me to follow my own wanderlust dream.

Estou muito impressionado com a beleza dos templos e santuários japoneses. Cada um mais bonito que o outro! 😍 I’m really impressed with the beauty of the japanese temples and shrines. Each one prettier than the other! 😍 Tokyo, Japan. 🇯🇵 w/ @marlonduque A post shared by Paulo del Valle (@paulodelvalle) on Jan 3, 2016 at 6:11am PST

2 @youngadventuress

Liz is one of my favorite travel bloggers out there and Young Adventuress is a BIG SUCCESS in the travel blog world. What I particularly enjoy about her is how down-to-earth and unpretentious she is.

Her gallery in Instagram has bits and bobs from everywhere in the world, but mostly from the awe-inspiring New Zealand outdoors.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Liz Carlson☀️Young Adventuress (@youngadventuress) on May 26, 2019 at 2:08am PDT

3 @treyratcliff

What I like the most about Trey’s body of work is that he’s not afraid of color. In fact, he’s all about color!

You can sneak peek his travel photography blog , displaying more of his amazing pictures.

View this post on Instagram Beautiful gondolas from above… the water looks almost Caribbean when the sun hits it directly from certain angles! #Venice #Gondola #Gondolas #DJI #Quad #Quadcopter #Phantom3 #Italy #Carnevale A post shared by Trey Ratcliff (@treyratcliff) on Feb 13, 2016 at 11:46pm PST

4 @Tourist2Townie

I’ve been a follower of Gareth’s videos on Tourist2Townie’s Youtube channel for quite some time. I’ve always been a fan of the very down-to-earth and humble way he approaches travel, still managing to be informative and truly helpful.

His his Instagram “is secondary” (his words, not mine), but still very much worth it if you ask me.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gareth Leonard (@tourist2townie) on Apr 10, 2019 at 7:17am PDT

5 @danielkordan

Daniel is a landscape photographer who shoots STUNNING pictures in remote places like Japan , Russia or Norway .

I have to confess I think this is one of the most inspiring Instagram accounts I’ve EVER come across. After all, 1M followers can’t be wrong.

View this post on Instagram Northern aurora at Lofoten islands. Vertorama (vertical panorama) of 2 horizontal photos. DanielKordan.com #Lofoten #northernlights #Norway #Fredvang A post shared by Daniel Kordan (@danielkordan) on Feb 21, 2016 at 8:15am PST

6 @bemytravelmuse

I found Kristin’s Instagram very recently and made an impact on me. It’s one of those accounts you can’t stop scrolling down.

Once a former investment banker in the corporate world, Kristin is a now a travel writer exploring the world full-time. You can follow her on her blog too. Judging by her gallery, I’d say she chose the right path!

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kristin Addis (@bemytravelmuse) on Apr 25, 2019 at 8:47am PDT

I’m going to be honest: I don’t know much about whoever is behind this account. In fact, I know nothing.

All I know is that the pictures here are breathtaking and make me want to go places. Apart from the visual element,there are also several inspiring descriptions. So Andy , whoever you are, you are awesome!

View this post on Instagram Look up get up and don't ever give up. Really excited that we just launched a program for @feedbacknation called "The Limelight" where we will be featuring artists who submit their story/photos I'm currently taking over @canon_photos for my latest trip to New York. Thank you guys so much for this amazing opportunity. A post shared by Andy To (@andyto) on Jan 27, 2016 at 9:43pm PST

8 @bueno_bonito_barat0_travelblog

A journalist with very itchy feet. Sarah did all of Central and South America by bus and she’s now focused on Europe.

On her blog she writes in Spanish mainly, but her pictures on Instagram speak by themselves!

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sarah Yáñez-Richards 🌎 📷 (@bueno_bonito_barat0_travelblog) on Jan 14, 2016 at 6:41am PST

9 @AlexStrohl

What I like about Alex’s gallery is how impactful his pictures can be. A photographer keen on the more remote destinations, he is able to translate the wilderness of incredible nature landscapes directly into his shots.

Alex is one of my top favorite Instagrammers out there, so I strongly suggest take a peek at his account. His photos will surely wow you!

View this post on Instagram Waking up on the shores of Lake McDonald, Montana.. #stayandwander A post shared by Alex Strohl (@alexstrohl) on Jan 25, 2016 at 9:11pm PST

10 @kristarossow

More than being just another National Geographic photographer, Krista has the amazing ability of telling a story. She’s in this list because of in-depth descriptions of her photos, which make the captures really come alive . With such an interesting gallery, she makes it so easy to travel along with her!

View this post on Instagram It was so normal in Myanmar to pass groups of young monks or nuns on the street or in temples….I even got cut off in traffic by monks on motor scooters! On my last night in Mandalay, I had just left the Sandamuni Pagoda when I came across these young Buddhist nuns draped in pink. I climbed Mandalay Hill into the sunset and who knows where they ended up. It is amazing how such disparate lives can pass in a flash…and how we smile at each other in our shared humanity. Thank you, Myanmar, for being friendly, welcoming, beautiful, and mysterious. I’ll be back and I hope that whatever changes as the country is opened to the world, that it doesn’t take the joy from the spirit of the beautiful Myanmar people. // #FujifilmX_US @FujifilmX_US @bhphoto #mywinteraway #FujifilmXT1 #Fujifilm @NatGeoCreative @NatGeoTravel A post shared by Krista Rossow (@kristarossow) on Mar 5, 2016 at 8:32pm PST

11 @breathewithus

Hugo and Cristina are a portuguese couple on a quest to explore the world’s best cultural and nature destinations. I’d say so far they are doing a great job!

Their website and Instagram are packed with useful tips and inspiring experiences. The Iceland collection is my favorite!

View this post on Instagram Road trip in Iceland? Don't forget to add the Snæfellsnes peninsula to your itinerary for landscapes and beautiful churches like this one near Hellissandur. A post shared by Breathe With Us (@breathewus) on Jul 15, 2015 at 3:40am PDT

12 @migrationology

Mark Wiens travels with a purpose: to eat food. Sounds like a great life purpose to me. Based in Bangkok , he combines his travels with indulging in the local foods and ingredients. The result is a colorful and yummy Instagram feed: a delight for foodies.

I have a problem with this guy’s feed though. I always get hungry!

View this post on Instagram This dim sum meal in Hong Kong was one of the 11 Best Meals I Ate in 2015! Check out the full list of 11 best meals on migrationology.com now! A post shared by Mark Wiens (@migrationology) on Dec 29, 2015 at 6:50pm PST

13 @theblondeabroad

Kiersten Rich is another example of a well-succeeded corporate woman who left everything for travel. And she really means it: she’s already got more than 40 countries ticked off her bucket list.

Her Instagram account is not all about travel, it’s also packed with lifestyle tips and experiences. The recent photos she took in Indonesia are quite awesome!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCRwDPlo5Av/?taken-by=theblondeabroad

15 @theplanetd

Another heavy weights of the travel blogosphere. Dave and Deb have travelled to more than 100 countries in all 7 continents and Planet D is an authentic bible of the best travel advice and tips all around the world.

Their Instagram account is filled with incredible pictures taken in a huge variety of places. This one in Canada is one of my favorites.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dave & Deb🔹ThePlanetD (@theplanetd) on Feb 4, 2019 at 7:00am PST

16 @girleatworld

I love everything about this profile. The concept, the name, the composition of the photos, and specially the tagline Eating my way around the world .

Originally from Hong Kong , Melissa Hie started this project because she felt awkward asking strangers to take pictures of her. So she started taking food selfies! On her Instagram you can find a bag of dutch fries in Amsterdam a corn bread in Indonesia , or this koulouri in Greece . I’m hooked!

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ❤️ Mel's Food & Travel log (@girleatworld) on Oct 21, 2018 at 5:56pm PDT

17 @jackharries

Jackson is the real deal. During his gap year in England , he started a documentary series in YouTube about his personal life and travels. This series eventually made him famous in the online world with MILLIONS of followers on his Instagram account.

Apart from being a filmmaker and producer, he’s now a climate change activist and a very interesting personality to follow.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jack Harries (@jackharries) on Aug 3, 2018 at 5:18am PDT

18 @jonathan_irish

Jonathan is a professional travel photographer, who used to be part of the National Geographic staff. In 2016, he was on a quest to visit all of the 59 U.S. National Parks during the centennial of the National Park Service.

View this post on Instagram Starry, starry night. We setup our @rei tent on a cold, clear evening in the Smokies and watched the stars roll by. Even though it was just past a full moon, the stars were brilliant. On to the next park ! The Great Smoky Mountains National Park (7 of 59) Shot with FUJIFILM X-T1 and XF16mm F1.4 lens #59in52 #onassignment #findyourpark @natgeo @natgeocreative @natgeotravel @fujifilmUS @fujifilmx_us #fujifilmx_us #myfujifilm #myinstax #X-T1 @instax @usinterior @nationalparkservice @airstream_inc @goparks @reallyrightstuff #ad A post shared by Jonathan Irish (@jonathan_irish) on Mar 4, 2016 at 7:45am PST

19 @calsnape

Vancouver-based Callum Snape is the photographer I aim to be one day. Stunning landscapes, elegant editing, unexpected results. Follow especially if you’re into dreamy arctic backgrounds.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Callum Snape (@calsnape) on Apr 18, 2019 at 8:48pm PDT

20 @lovedeathtravel

Despite the daunting name, don’t worry, this account is only about love and travel.

The list of places featured in this gallery is huge, each one more beautiful than the other. I love how he enriches his already-stunning pictures with inspiring lyrics in his descriptions.

View this post on Instagram "And when the cold wind blows we'll wake up on the other side/ Where the sunlight sounds like moonlight in our ears.." [Akron/Family] • Set-up the cables because I'm coming for ya Half Dome. See you at the top. • ↯ Tunnel View Yosemite National Park #NPS100 #findyourpark A post shared by ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀BEN (@lovedeathtravel) on Aug 5, 2016 at 11:11am PDT

21 @uncornered_market

Uncornered Market is a travel project founded by Daniel and Audrey, a relentless couple who have visited more than 90 countries.

Besides their top-notch travel photography and insights into theyr daily wanderlust, I love how they describe themselves: a “husband-and-wife storytelling team”.

View this post on Instagram Palm Tree Point, Port Douglas. I'm a big fan of the well-timed appearance of a sailboat. If you grab just the right shady spot of choice at Rex Smeal Park, you get to watch them here off the Queensland coast all day long. Australia #lazysunday A post shared by Daniel Noll & Audrey Scott (@uncornered_market) on Jan 24, 2016 at 4:30pm PST

22 @johnnywharris

Mostly known for his Vox’s videos – including my all-time favorite Vox Borders project – Johnny Harris is a self-made videographer with huge skills.

On his Instagram account he shares some extras of the fantastic content he’s able to create.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Johnny Harris (@johnnywharris) on Sep 24, 2018 at 5:56pm PDT

EXTRA: ME! (@bruno_mb)

In a shameful act of self-promotion, I had to squeeze myself in! It feels damn good to even be featured in the same list as these amazing list of Instagrammers!

My account is still a little fish in a world of travel sharks out there. My first photos in Instagram were taken in 2012 with a crappy camera phone (#throwbackshame). I like to think that I’ve improved by now. And I hope I can continue to get better every shutter at a time!

View this post on Instagram A post shared by BRUN🌎 (@bruno_mb) on Jun 25, 2019 at 9:03am PDT

Other inspiring Instagram travel accounts to follow:

• Beautiful Destinations
• Lonely Planet Traveller
• National Geographic
• National Geographic Travel

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If you are on Instagram let’s connect and make sure you follow these amazing bunch of travellers too!

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26 of the Best Brands on Instagram Right Now

Published: February 14, 2022

Contrary to what your friends' photos suggest, Instagram isn't just a social network for selfies and brunch pics. In fact, Instagram has over 200 million businesses that use its platform and 90% of users follow at least one of them, according to recent data .

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In a time when visual content remains a crucial part of any brand's marketing strategy, Instagram marketing presents a unique opportunity to showcase your brand identity.

Ready to get inspired? Check out this list of brands that are thriving on Instagram right now, and why their posts set them apart.

Best Brands on Instagram

What makes a brand great on Instagram?

We polled 301 users across the United States, and asked “Which of the following describes the brands you follow and enjoy on Instagram?”

These were their top answers:

While much of the content on this page lends itself to things a mom can do, there's plenty of content advocating rest, relaxation, and mental health as well. You'll also find the occasional discount code for popular products and cross-promotion of The Every Mom blog in the Instagram stories and highlights.

2. Bolden USA

Followers: 32.1k.

Instagram is all about visuals. This means that within minutes of being on Instagram, a user can be bombarded with images.

So, the question is: How do you make sure your brand stands out and is memorable?

One way is by developing a unique aesthetic and remaining consistent. Bolden USA has done just that.

To mirror its green logo, the theme of Bolden USA's Instagram is green. While the brand features other colors in its images, green is always the primary, standout color – an effective tactic to aid brand recall. That brand recall being spread across more than 33,000 followers makes Bolden USA one of the best brands on Instagram right now.

3. The Broke Black Girl

Followers: 174k.

Personal finance is like exercise. You need motivation, the right tools, discipline, and a goal to achieve to see real success. It doesn't hurt to have a good coach to guide you along the way, either, and that's exactly what The Broke Black Girl is doing as one of the best brands on Instagram.

Dasha is a financial activist who specializes in competency-based financial education. Over 170,000 people follow her for non-judgemental financial advice, empathetic budgeting tips, and free financial resources. Her work levels the predominantly white-male-led financial literacy landscape to make it more accessible to women of color.

The history of women of color in finance, the $1000 Emergency Fund Challenge, and motivational messages comprise the majority of this brand's Instagram feed making it the best place for young people to start their financial fitness journey.

4. Teleport Watches

Followers: 9.1k.

Have you ever wondered where former President Barack Obama buys his watches? One of the brands he sports is Teleport Watches.

This premium luxury timepiece brand is known for its stylish and durable watches that are perfect for day-to-day wear and special occasions. However, people come back to the brand for its modern approach to a classic accessory which is why this Instagram brand makes our list.

Teleport Watches proves that you can have a loyal following on Instagram without millions of followers. Although it's one of the smallest Instagram brands in our lineup, it makes up for it in engagement and influence.

5. Netflix's Strong Black Lead

Followers: 764k.

Here is an example of a brand that has mastered the art of having its own identity while remaining connected to its parent brand.

Strong Black Lead is a sub-brand under Netflix dedicated to amplifying Black stories in media.

The brand's Instagram page mainly features screen grabs and short clips from TV shows, movies, and documentaries available on Netflix that feature Black actors and/or directors. They stay on-trend, posting relevant content based on current events, holidays, and buzzy topics.

In addition to its appreciation posts for widely loved TV characters, Strong Black Lead also promotes content the brand hosts on other platforms, such as podcasts and YouTube content.

6. Califia Farms

Followers: 318k.

Warning: If you're hungry, don't head to Califia Farms' Instagram page.

The brand's food photography makes it stand out among the rest, showing users how Califia Farms' products can be used to create dishes ranging from pancakes and nice cream to artichoke dip and fettuccine alfredo.

The brand doesn't shy away from featuring its product in the images either. You can usually find it somewhere in its visual content, whether it's the main subject of the photo or more in the background.

7. Anima Iris

Followers: 78.9k.

You probably thought this list would only feature enterprise-level brands, huh?

Well, there are a ton of brands that have found the magic recipe on Instagram and Anima Iris is one of them.

What sets this brand apart is the transparency of its CEO.

If you watch one of Anima Iris' Instagram Stories, you'll probably see its CEO, Wilglory Tanjong, showing the behind-the-scenes of running a luxury purse brand, which helps its audience feel more connected .

You'll probably also see Q&As, surveys, and user-generated content – all strategies that have helped the company build a strong online community and gain brand loyalists.

8. Cooking With Constance

Followers: 15.2k.

There's more than enough food inspiration on Instagram, but Cooking With Constance takes that inspo a step further by pairing it with a side of judgment-free health and wellness. That's why more than 10,000 people flocked to follow this brand page in just a few weeks.

This isn't your typical vegan brand that compares and contrasts plant-based and non-plant-based lifestyles. Instead, Cooking With Constance serves up hearty and healthy recipes that even the biggest meat lovers will enjoy.

Holiday recipes, quick and easy lunches, and plant-based living tips are just a few of the types of content you'll find as you scroll through her appetizing feed.

9. Lorna Jane

Followers: 1m.

If your brand were a person, how would you describe its personality? Australian activewear company Lorna Jane has done an awesome job answering this important branding question with its Instagram content.

The images posted by Lorna Jane, which often show the brand's clothing and accessories, as well as images of women who embody its target buyer persona, are colorful, playful, and inspirational, which is a perfect representation of the brand's essence.

10. Letterfolk

Followers: 360k.

Letterfolk is a small business run by a couple who create and sell beautiful, handcrafted felt letterboards. Each letterboard comes with a full set of characters so people can personalize the walls of their homes, which means endless room for creativity.

Instagram is the perfect platform for them to inspire customers and aspiring customers with real customers' boards, as well as ideas they've come up with and staged themselves. Their Instagram content is funny and relatable – a great recipe for shareability.

11. Apartment Therapy

Followers: 3.2m.

Apartment Therapy's Instagram account really is a source of therapy, if you love the sight of cozy homes.

From home decor inspiration to fun challenges like their #SmallCoolChallenge contest and trendy user-generated content (UGC), this brand gives its followers plenty of inspiration to personalize their own space and "live happy, healthy lives at home,” as written in their profile bio.

12. Sunday II Sunday

Followers: 20.9k.

Sunday II Sunday is another small business with a robust social media presence.

The brand describes itself as “haircare for active women.” As such, its content revolves around having and managing an active lifestyle.

Sunday II Sunday also does a great job of engaging its followers, asking them questions about their routines, workouts, and hair care habits.

13. Tentsile

Followers: 201k.

"Stunning" is the first word that comes to mind when I scroll through Tentsile's Instagram photos.

Tentsile sells tree tents, what they call "portable treehouses" to elevate your camping experience. Its Instagram page is full of beautiful lifestyle images of their products in just about anywhere in the world: rainforests, mountains, beaches... you name it.

What the brand does well is leveraging its UGC . This saves time and resources and gives the brand some social proof.

14. Desenio

Followers: 1.9m.

The first thing you'll notice when you land on Swedish online art print company Desenio's Instagram page is color blocking.

Every image blends beautifully with the one next to it, creating a cohesive, visually appealing page you never want to leave.

Even when using user-generated content, the brand ensures it fits within its aesthetic. Establishing consistency in your creative assets is key in ensuring brand recognition (i.e., when people see your image anywhere, they know it's you.)

Followers: 17M

Vans is known for its stylish shoes and its Instagram business account is no exception.

One thing that's clear by looking at Vans' Instagram account is that its identity is no longer tied solely to skateboarding. While you'll still see lifestyle images with skateboarders, you'll also see surfers, cyclists, and other fashionable shoe-lovers.

So, as your brand identity and messaging evolve, your content should also follow suit. Not sure how to get started with a strategy like this? Check out this podcast for tips from marketing experts:

16. Grass-Fields

Followers: 949k.

Now, here's a brand that knows how to show its personality.

This Cameroon-based clothing brand isn't playing it safe on Instagram with static model shots and sale promotions. Instead, Grass-Fields showcases its products through fun, vibrant dance videos, and behind-the-scenes content.

The brand also highlights Black business owners, creators, and artists on its page, which caters to Black women.

The key takeaway here is: Don't be afraid to do things differently than it has been done if that's what your audience responds to.

17. Finfolk Productions

Followers: 399k.

Ever wanted to be a mermaid? You can come pretty close, thanks to companies like FinFolk Productions. Believe it or not, silicone mermaid tails you can put on and swim around in are quite trendy.

The nostalgia of being a mermaid gives Finfolk Productions' followers a sense of wonder that they can actually wear. This unique brand makes dreams come true, and that's worthy of a spot on this list of the best brands on Instagram.

18. Shiseido

Followers: 1.3m.

Shiseido started as Japan's first Western-style pharmacy more than 140 years ago and has since developed into selling high-quality brightening and anti-aging skincare, makeup, and fragrance products.

Its mission is to inspire a life of beauty and culture – a mission it portrays beautifully through Instagram content.

Hot tip: Posts featuring faces, especially for a skincare brand, are ideal for boosting social media engagement.

Don't be intimidated by highly professional Instagram videos like theirs. You can post highly engaging videos on Instagram without a huge video team or a bottomless budget. Here's some inspiration for making amazing Instagram Reels without breaking the bank.

19. The Muted Home

Followers: 49k.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the home improvement industry saw an 18% increase in YOY market size — the largest increase in more than ten years. With people spending more money in the local hardware stores, they were spending more time on social media, too — consuming home decor content.

Instagram brands like The Muted Home provide inspiration to help their followers redefine and elevate their homes with luxury home decor. Candles, vases, spice racks, cooking utensils, and more can be found on The Muted Home's Instagram page making it the go-to brand for nearly 50,000 online home decor enthusiasts.

20. Sephora Collections

Followers: 818k.

In addition to partnering with beauty influencers, the brand also promotes content from everyday makeup users, featuring their tutorials and looks on its feed.

Hot Tip: What makes this big brand one of the best on Instagram is the community it's built on the platform. But what we see from Sephora on Instagram is a combination of marketing efforts elsewhere. So take it from Sephora — invest in your brand outside of Instagram, too, so that you can see even more success on this social network.

Followers: 100k

If you're renovating or simply moving into a new home, you're likely looking for inspiration on social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest .

Clare's Instagram features a collection of carefully curated images that meet that exact need. You'll find everything from new product promotions to home decor tips – everything in between.

There's also a beautiful balance of colors on Clare's Instagram page, creating a cohesive profile that's inviting, warm, and inspiring.

22 . HoneyBook

Followers: 93.6k.

What we love about HoneyBook is how accessible its content is.

Instagram, like many social media platforms, has been slow to develop and promote its accessibility features.

Thankfully, brands like HoneyBook have taken an active approach to make its content accessible by adding captions to their videos and adding image IDs that describe every image the company posts.

For deaf, hard of hearing, and visually impaired users, these extra steps go a long way.

23. Design Essentials

Followers: 147k.

Design Essentials knows that hair is more than just something that grows on your body. It can speak to a community, a culture.

If you're looking for inspiration for your Instagram brand, take inspo from Design Essentials and try diversifying your content. Even when your business is niche, there are plenty of ways to stretch your content ideas.

The brand does more than just promote products on its Instagram page. In addition to product shots, you'll find inspirational quotes about hair, playful memes about everyday life, and fun reposts from Design Essentials' audience.

24. Flodesk

Followers: 45.5k.

Flodesk's Instagram is everything you want to see on Instagram from an email marketing platform: beautiful designs and inviting content.

What's more, almost every post includes a call-to-action that invites the audience to engage. Whether it's to drop an emoji in the comments or answer a question – engagement done right.

Followers: 51.8k

Omsom is another small business that has leveraged its CEOs, two first-generation Vietnamese sisters, to build a community on Instagram.

As you scroll through Omsom's Instagram, yes, you'll find beautifully crafted images showcasing the dishes you can make using the brand's food products. However, that's only one piece of the puzzle.

You'll also see many posts celebrating Vietnamese culture, and debunking Asian-American stereotypes and biases.

This strategy helps consumers connect with the Omsom beyond the delicious food and understand its broader mission and purpose.

26. Chipotle

Followers: 1.1m.

Instead of reeling in consumers with food pictures, Chipotle has chosen another route: hilarious memes.

While you may find the occasional food post, the brand has focused its Instagram strategy on showing its personality.

Here's why it works: Memes are shareable and tag-friendly, which helps Chipotle reach new consumers as people tag their friends in funny, relatable posts.

The common thread in all the brands featured is that they had a consistent brand identity that was reflected in their visuals and a deep understanding of what resonated with their audience.

Ready to populate your Instagram timeline with pics and videos that are as captivating as the content above? We believe in you!

Editor's note: This post was originally published in June 2021 and has been updated for comprehensiveness.

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Best Travel Hashtags For Instagram: Get Your Posts & Reels Found In 2024

• December 15, 2023
• by Margaret Bourne

Travel is one of the most popular niche subjects on Instagram. Consider how many people want to share their adventures with the world. To make it easier to create your hashtags lists, I’ve pulled together some of the top travel hashtags for Instagram (2024), used by pros and top influencers.

This is by no means the definitive list, but it will give you some different hashtags you can work with, to boost your online presence. Especially since Instagram reels with travel destinations can be extremely popular.

And of course, static Instagram posts from travellers and travel photographers, are always a delight for bucket list inspiration.

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Travel Is A Hot Instagram Topic

Travel is one of the hottest Instagram topics – so there’s much competition.

If you’re a travel blogger or planning to start a blog in the travel niche, Instagram is going to be one of the top places you’ll be promoting your content.

You’ll probably be looking to promote your original photos or posts with travel quotes and captions .

So, knowing which travel hashtags are popular is going to be an advantage.

The Top Travel Hashtags For Instagram For General Travel

This list is on broad travel topics – general hashtags that include many which are in the top 500,000+ posts range.

#doyoutravel #explore #exploremore #exploretocreate #falltravel #goingplaces #ig_travel #ilovetravel #ilovetraveling #ilovetravelling #instagtravel #instatravelling  #lovetravelling #sightseeing #summertravels #tasteintravel #travel #travel_drops #traveladdict #travelandlife #travelawesome #travelbug #traveldestinations #traveldiaries #traveldiary #travelgram #travelholic #travelingram #travellife #travelling #travellingaroundtheworld #travellingislife #travellingourplanet #travellingtheworld #travellingthroughtheworld #travelmore #traveltheplanet #traveltheworld #traveltribe #travelworld #trip #vacation #visitworld #wonderful_places #wonderfuldestinations #worldplaces #traveldeeper #travelgoals #travelinspiration #travelnow

Travel Destination Hashtags

All about the destination – these travel hashtags speak to where you are going. You can always customize with the continent, country or region.

#allaroundtheworld #amazingplaces #beautifuldestinations #beautifulfscenery #bestdestinations #bestplacestogo #bestvacations #destinations #instapassport #passporttravel #placestogo #placestosee #placestostay #placestotravel #placestovisit

Type Of Traveller Hashtags

These are travel hashtags specific to your travel lifestyle. Sometimes you travel with family, sometimes solo. What kind of traveller are you?

#adventureseeker #cruieaddict #wanderlust #wanderluster #wanderlusting #wanderlustspirit #vagabonding #vagabondlife #travellingsolo #travellingalone #travellingwithkids #travellingcouple #travellingfamily #solotravel #solotraveler #traveldudes #travelgirl #travelguy #girlsthatwander #wearetravelgirls #travellingwoman #wanderlusttribe #travelblogger

Travel Type Hashtags

How are you travelling? Choose the right travel hashtags to describe your travel.

#trainride #traintrip #traintravel #planeride #planetravel #planetrip #myflight #flyinghome #cartrip #cartrips #cruiselife #cruiseship #roadtrip #roadtripping

Adventure Travel Hashtags

Going into the wild or on an adventure? Use these adventure travel hashtags.

#adventure #adventureawaits #adventuretime #adventuretravel #adventuretravels #adventuretrip #campingtrip #hikingtrip #naturetravel #naturetravellers #offthebeatenpath #wildplaces

Hashtags For Places To Stay During Travels

Did you fall in love with your hotel? Are you staying at a hostel? Share the pic on Instagram and use one of these travel hashtags for overnight accommodations.

#bedandbreakfast #bandb #besthotels #cottagerental #hostel #hostellife #hoteldesign #hoteldestination #hotellife #hotels #hotelfun #hotelhideaway #hotelroom #hotelroomview #hotelsofinstagram #hotelstay #luxuryhotel #roomwithaview

Hashtags For Travel Photography And Travel Blogging

For professional photographers there are numerous hashtags, however, these are specific for travel photography. And you can use some of these for travel blogging as well.

#sharetravelpics #tblogger #thebest_capture #thattravelblog #travelblog #travelblogger #travelblogging #travelbloggerlife #travelquotes #travelphoto #travelphotographer #travelphotography #travelpreneur #worldtravelpics

Quirky And Miscellaneous Travel Hashtags

A collection of miscellaneous and quirky travel hashtags – this list is growing, so visit occasionally to see what’s been added to the list!

#doyoutravel #goexplore #ipulledoverforthis #mytinyatlas #neverstopexploring #openmyworld #postcardplaces #postcardsfromtheworld #responsibletravel #travelthursday #traveltuesday #wanderlustwednesday #welltravelled

Get The Most Out Of Your Hashtag Strategy

While it’s tempting to go for the top hashtags that have millions of posts, it’s best to keep to this smart strategy:

• About 2 hashtags that have more than 1 million posts
• 6 to 8 that are between 500,000 and 1 million posts
• 6 to 8 that are between 250,000 and 500,000
• 8 to 10 under 250,000

This gives you anywhere between 22 to 28 hashtags that you’re using, enough to give you visibility.

Instagram’s maximum recommended total for hashtags is 30.

I tend to use about 20 hashtags, as that’s my sweet spot – but for me, lately, it’s mostly home decor posts as I’m doing less travelling (that’s when this list of home decor hashtags comes in handy).

Editing Your Travel Photos

My ultimate favourite phone app for travel edits is Lightroom .

The free version is good – and you can add your own presets to it. The upgraded version gives you more controls for better editing, especially when it comes to landscape photography.

Break up your photos with some fun quotes and visuals using your nature photos – like I did here with one of my photos.

Online photo editors such as Be Funky and Pixlr also have design capabilities making them powerful one-stop photo editing and design creation tools.

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Boost Your Travel Posts With These Hashtags

So you’re all set – 125 travel hashtags to use for your posts and reels on Instagram.

Create your hashtag lists in advance, so it’s easier to copy and paste them into captions. This greatly speeds up your Instagram posting process.

I hope these travel hashtags help you boost your visibility on Instagram!

Need more hashtags?

Check out my list of over 100+ nature and outdoor adventure hashtags for adventure travel.

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Learn how to craft travel blog posts that motivate readers to travel.

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Awesome (and effective) hashtag ideas! You really made it easy for travel related accounts 🙂

Thanks Karen! That’s the plan. 🙂

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30 Best Brands on Instagram Right Now

Here’s something we all can agree on:

Instagram has turned into a powerful sales machine, and most marketing specialists wrestle with a question on what content strategy to choose to skyrocket engagement and conversion there.

The problem is that competition is crazy :

• There are around 25 million businesses on Instagram today.
• Over two million advertisers use the platform to drive business results.
• With over a billion Instagram users, 90% of whom follow business pages there, it comes close to impossible to engage and sell to them.

With that in mind, it’s important to be super creative and far-sighted to reach, interact, and convince the Instagram audience to choose your brand. It also stands to reason that you want to get inspired and learn from the best brands on Instagram, as well as try implementing the content strategies that work for them.

We talked about the 15 best brands for your Instagram inspiration before. But now it’s time to bring other heavyweights aboard: Here go the 30 best brands killing it on Instagram, across six niches. Check them out, get motivated, implement similar working strategies, and get ready to analyze the results.

• Marketing Instagram accounts
• Design Instagram accounts
• Food brands on Instagram
• Fitness brands on Instagram
• Travel brands on Instagram
• Beauty & fashion brands on Instagram

Best marketing Instagram accounts

Followers: 497.3k

Shopify is an e-commerce platform allowing anyone to start an online store, manage, and market it. With over 1.7 million customers onboard, and close to 6000 apps in the Shopify app store , this is also the biggest and the most customizable platform in this space.

They are among the top brands on Instagram, with almost 500k engaged followers. What they do is post photos and personal stories of their customers, encouraging conversation by asking questions, and sharing video content with “how” and “why” motivating lifehacks.

What strategies to learn here:

• Know your audience’s pain points and appeal to them in your content.
• Use narrative and expository writing (storytelling) techniques in Instagram captions to engage users.
• Post creative and well-designed video content when appropriate

Followers: 302k

Brit + Co is the American digital media company positioning themselves as leaders in craft, do-it-yourself content, and everything creative. With 300k+ followers on Instagram, it’s clear they have successfully tapped into their target audience. It’s enough to take a quick look at their feed to see what fun, colorful, and trendy content they produce.

What you can learn from their Instagram account:

• Color palettes matter. You need to choose brand colors and stay consistent with them when posting your content.
• Plan and design content in advance for your side-by-side images to look aesthetically pleasing all together.
• Try using text images such as sticky notes, quotes, etc. This type of content, as well as posting Twitter quotes, is one of the top Instagram content trends this year.

Followers: 105.2k

A digital agency from New York, Huge Inc. is about digital marketing , design, and strategy. For today, they boast 105k Instagram followers, and this number is continuously growing thanks to the appealing content they share on their feed.

What do they post? It’s all about high-quality visual content, graphic design inspiration, and funny pics and captions about their daily office antics.

What to learn from them:

• Authenticity is the key: Show users that your brand is real, and there are real people behind the curtains.

Mother London

Followers: 75.4k

When looking at this brand’s Instagram feed, you understand who they are right away. Thanks to their unique approach to content, Mother London has quickly joined the team of other brands killing it on Instagram. They are the independent creative agency network, showcasing their projects as well as other creatives’ design perspectives.

Lessons to learn:

• Sharing is caring. Tag and promote your partners whenever possible to engage a broader audience to your Instagram page.
• Think of a creative way to design your Instagram feed . It grabs attention and stirs up interest in your account.

Followers: 19k

This one is the smallest brand on the list, but it doesn’t make them less creative on Instagram than their bigger competitors. If you have a small business, please pay attention to this account for inspiration and “stealing” some creative content ideas.

MOE Assist is a project management tool for influencers to manage their projects and partnerships. With around 20k followers on Instagram, the brand posts text images with inspirational quotes, photos of meetings with their clients, and free-hand drawings that catch the eye of Instagram users.

What to learn here:

• Talk to your audience and ask them for feedback.
• Publish original content, which is designed after the latest trends and specifically for your Instagram page.

Best design brands on Instagram

Followers: 2.2 million

Etsy is the brand selling handmade and vintage items, so it stands to reason their Instagram account showcases the work of creative, independent designers. With 2.2 million followers, the brand focuses its content strategy on evoking a sensation of authenticity and warmth in users.

Any tips here?

• Consider the color psychology: Focus on a palette that will communicate your brand character and message.
• Combine visual and text content to evoke emotions.

This furniture brand helps customers “express style through modern design.” With 2.2 million active followers on Instagram, they seem to do it right, do you agree? Their feed is full of bright and high-quality images, UGC, and useful how-to posts encouraging users to ask questions about home design.

So, what to learn from these guys:

• Publish high-quality images only.
• Ask followers for UGC and share it with tags and descriptions.
• Make the most out of Instagram Stories : how-to videos, swipe-up links, vertical videos for complex topics, etc. Also, make sure to create branded covers for your Stories.

Followers: 2.1 million

Raise your hand, those who never heard about this Swedish furniture company! Their Instagram account shows off products, teaches users how to assemble them, and invites followers to shop IKEA’s photos, therefore letting them know where to buy the product they’ve liked.

The link in their Instagram bio leads to a landing page with all Instagram photos, each linking to the product page on the website. It allows the brand to streamline the buying process by giving the audience an option to know exactly where they can buy the product in the pictures: They click the image and go directly to the corresponding website page, with no need to search!

Strategies to “steal” here?

• Be creative with links in your Instagram bio, and use corresponding social media tools to assist you with that. Instruments like Curalate, Linktree, or Leadpages can help you repeat the trick of IKEA or add a few links to your bio, not just one.

Farrow & Ball

Followers: 885.2k

This brand promotes eco-friendly design, encouraging the audience to use safe paints and handcrafted wallpapers in homes. The number of their Instagram followers is fast-growing, suggesting they’ve chosen the right strategy for social media marketing . They post user-generated content of high-quality, sharing design tricks for readers to implement at home.

• Create content around topics that cover your customers’ pain points.
• Encourage followers to produce UGC and publish them with tags so they’re easier for you to find.
• Share useful content, with tips and hacks for your audience to apply in real life.

Followers: 571.2k

It’s the brand of stylish furniture and everything related to interior design. As well as IKEA and Etsy, they invite followers to “shop the feed” and don’t link to their website in the Instagram bio. One more creative trick they use for designing the feed is that they post photos by color, creating a rainbow effect on the page.

Tips to follow here:

• Feature your products but don’t focus on their direct promotion on Instagram.
• Publish image carousels to tell stories within one post.

Best food brands on Instagram

Followers: 1 million

No matter how many lists of top Instagram brands you check, you’ll find Wendy’s in most of them. A million users follow this page for its entertaining content and creative food layouts in the feed. The brand is open to trends and experiments, so they emphasize color, witty texts, and food as art in their account.

Anything you can “steal” here?

• Add humor to your content, but stay relevant to your niche.
• Try positioning your product in unusual ways: create art, incorporate it in videos, etc. In other words, think outside of the box.
• Share user-generated content with your comments in the feed. Post Twitter quotes mentioning your brand, for example.

Ben & Jerry’s

Followers: 945.6k

As well as Wendy’s, Ben & Jerry’s focus on entertaining content in their Instagram account. Funny captions, clever names for products, creative images of their ice cream in extraordinary scenery — all this works to wow users and engage them to crave more.

What to learn from this food brand on Instagram:

• Make sure to produce and publish eye-catching images.
• If you choose writing short captions, make them witty and on point. 

SHAKE SHACK

Followers: 693.2k

This brand’s killing it on Instagram with short but fun and punchy captions. With around 700k followers, they post tons of user-generated pictures, encouraging customers to share their photos on Instagram to get featured on the page. What makes SHAKE SHACK’s account cuter and even more engaging is… puppies.

• Create a strong visual brand identity.
• Analyze your audience’s lifestyle priorities and incorporate them into your marketing strategy .

Matt Adlard

Followers: 635.1k

Okay, and here goes the example of a successful personal brand on Instagram. Matt Adlard is a baking influencer who creates beautiful desserts and shares videos of his creations with 635k followers. Getting the most out of Instagram Stories, Matt documents the process of food creation with the recipes for users to try at home.

Another content strategy he implements is storytelling. His Instagram captions are often long-form, telling some personal stories of both success and failures, with life lessons to learn.

Anything to learn from Matt?

• Share your behind-the-scenes look. Be open-minded and honest to connect with your audience and humanize your brand.
• Use storytelling techniques in Instagram captions. Whenever appropriate, make your customers the hero of your stories.

Halo Top Australia

Followers: 62.7k

This Australian brand of vegan desserts has grown to a community of 63k engaged followers, and it seems they aren’t going to stop here. Their account is about visually pleasing photo design, playing with colors, textures, and shape, and writing short but punchy captions that motivate users to like and comment.

It’s clear that they do a big job of planning and creating their Instagram visuals. All this works for building a strong brand identity and engaging users who come to Instagram for beautiful and “yummy” content.

Content tips to take away:

• Focus on content quality.
• Plan your Instagram content and preview your feed to analyze what it will look like after publishing.
• Use strong visual presentation with logos , color schemes, slogans, etc. to attract a niche audience.

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Best fitness brands on Instagram

New balance.

Followers: 5.2 million

If you ask, “What brand has the most followers on Instagram,” it will be Nike that holds the palm of victory. It’s on every list of top brands on Instagram, and we wrote about it already. So let’s focus on other successful fellows in this niche: New Balance takes the second place in the top fitness brands, sharing inspiring content for followers to stay active and get motivated to win.

• Create the content on topics covering your customers’ pain points.
• Evoke emotions.
• Launch an IGTV channel with long-form videos that will be valuable to your audience.

Followers: 3.2 million

Focused on fitness and life fun, Lululemon succeeds on Instagram thanks to their powerful brand positioning. Their feed is about motivation rather than direct product selling: With #thesweatlife hashtag, the brand asks the community to tag their workouts and then shares these images of people on the go. Minimalistic photos demonstrating someone using the product in a lifestyle context is the trick we all know as “to sell without selling.”

The lessons to take away:

• Collaborate with influencers and encourage followers to produce UGC images.
• Create hashtags to build a community around it and collect customer feedback.

Followers: 2.3 million

This brand of yoga clothes knows how to use Instagram for business. With 2.3 million followers and growing, they focus on posting beautiful photos of people doing yoga, tagging influencers wearing their product, and hiring professional yogis to teach their audience.

Any tricks to take away?

• Collaborate with influencers.
• Tag partners to cover a broader audience.
• Share educational content with followers, helping them learn from you.

Mindbodygreen

The Instagram account of this digital health and wellness brand warrants its name: They focus on helping their million followers live their best lives. Warm and calm colors, motivational quotes, infographics with actionable tips — all this works the room, engaging and educating the audience.

What to learn from Mindbodygreen:

• Combine text and visual content for better engagement.
• Focus on the benefits users can get from your content.
• Stick to one color palette and filter.
• Bring the human touch.

Under Armour Women

Followers: 863.4k

This brand’s marketing team knows they work in a super-competitive market, so they focus on the content evoking emotions and intrinsic motivation rather than demonstrating their product directly. In other words, they attract followers by using emotional triggers that keep people engaged and influence their decision-making.

• Produce and share content appealing to customers’ pain points.
• Feature your product with no focus on it.
• Sell emotions and dreams, not goods.

Best travel brands on Instagram

National geographic travel.

Followers: 37.3 million

The highly visual content is a must for travel brands wanting to kill it on Instagram. National Geographic Travel have nailed it: They post beautiful and inspiring images taken by professional photographers, tagging them and captioning their pictures with stories.

• Make your content highly visual.
• Partner with influencers and brands that match your values, promoting them and therefore attracting a new audience to your channel.

Travel + Leisure

Followers: 5 million

This travel brand carefully picks the content to share on their Instagram profile. Focusing on color palettes and filters, they make the page look consistent and aesthetically pleasing for followers to scroll. More than that, they use visual storytelling techniques, captioning each post with an engaging background story.

• Create a strong visual identity for your brand.
• Turn customers into brand ambassadors.
• Use tags for more engagement.

Booking.Com

Followers: 1.4 million

As specified by the brand themselves, 20% of travelers crave “Instagrammable moments” on social media to decide where to go next. So, Booking.com makes the most out of video content on Instagram to educate customers about destinations and engage them to use their service. They use IGTV to showcase guests’ experiences and promote the benefits of choosing them.

Any tips from the brand?

• Make the most out of IGTV if relevant to your business.
• Use Instagram Stories to take the audience behind the scenes.
• Share educational content for users to get value. 

Four Seasons

With a million followers on Instagram, this brand of hotels and resorts focuses on user-generated content, sharing the best pictures tagging their locations. It helps them and their followers to find local-specific content, as well as get inspired by beautiful destinations to visit. Also, they tag other brands in captions to create engagement and build B2B relations wherever possible.

• Engage with followers, responding to their comments.
• Create thoughtful content for users.
• Use branded hashtags.
• Encourage followers to tag you and share their UGC.

Travel Alberta

Followers: 705.9k

Travel Alberta is a Canadian travel brand that has mastered the art of storytelling on Instagram. They not only share beautiful pictures, tagging photographers and related partners, but also provide followers with short, interactive videos showcasing their travel offers. As we know, videos are more effective than text when it comes to communicating a marketing message; so, it’s time to implement this feature to your Instagram if you haven’t done so yet.

• Upload video posts to tell your story.
• Make the most out of UGC: Invite users to tag you to get featured on your page.
• Use storytelling to engage readers and help them remember you.

Best beauty & fashion brands on Instagram

Followers: 18.2 million

This brand and their Instagram account are all about shoes, but they don’t sell and focus on products in their feed. Instead, they promote a lifestyle of adventure and feature customers, sharing compelling and authentic content that helps to build brand awareness and trust.

Their top strategy on Instagram is video storytelling that helps to engage the audience and create a connection with potential customers.

What to “steal” from them:

• Encourage followers to produce user-generated content, tagging your brand.
• Make your customer the hero of your brand story.
• Focus on video content for better engagement.

Tiffany & Co.

Followers: 11.4 million

The world-famous brand of luxurious jewelry, Tiffany & Co. promotes the corresponding lifestyle in their Instagram account. They focus on the content quality, sharing images taken by professional photographers, and plan social media publications to make sure they will look superlative in the feed.

• Build a powerful brand identity and stick to it in your Instagram feed.
• Connect with the professional community.
• Invite niche experts to share their tips.
• Combine different content types to engage a broader audience.
• Always have a content strategy and content plan for your Instagram account.

Lush Cosmetics

Followers: 4.5 million

This beauty brand promotes eco-friendly products and habits, sharing the corresponding content with their audience. They work with charities, support ecological movements on their Instagram page, and engage their followers by posting bright pictures and asking questions.

Tips to follow:

• Encourage followers to comment and share.
• Let them know your mission; be sustainable, supporting local and global movements.

Kate Spade NY

Followers: 2.8 million

This brand is an international retailer of luxury clothing and accessories for women. Nevertheless, they stand out from other labels on Instagram: Their feed is feminine and playful, with a consistent color palette and a personal touch in every post. Kate Spade NY shares professionally designed outfit shots, behind-the-scenes shots of the design process, and Instagram Stories communicating their brand values and message to followers.

• Build up anticipation through your posts.
• Upload posts with multiple images to tell your story in one post.

PRIVACY PLEASE

Followers: 119.3k

This American women’s clothing brand has built a big fan base on Instagram, even without having a website! With a variety of aesthetically pleasing images, tagging customers wearing their outfits, Privacy Please remains consistent in their content, maintaining a warm aesthetic on the feed.

Anything to learn from them?

• Stick to one layout, color palette, and filter.
• Turn customers into your brand ambassadors.
• Collaborate with influencers, tagging them in posts for better visibility and engagement.

Visually plan all your social channels. Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook + LinkedIn.

With so many users and brands killing it on Instagram, it’s super challenging to stand out from the crowd with your content. But impossible is nothing for those creative and ready to experiment for future success. Learn from the best brands on Instagram 2020 by taking the content strategies that work for them and crafting them so they are relevant to your own brand voice and audience’s needs, and you’ll soon reap the rewards.

Ready to give it a try? Which of the above-mentioned strategies would you dare to try in your Instagram account?

Guest Author: Lesley Vos

Blogger and Content Strategist — Bid4Papers

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Picking the best travel hashtags is a sure way to beat Instagram’s algorithm change. 

As many of you know, Instagram’s algorithm changes affect our videos and images’ organic reach. When Instagram ditched the  chronological feed , it is no longer sure that our followers will see our content as they scroll their feed. Instead, Instagram decides which content is more relevant to you based on its algorithm. 

The algorithm changes affect everybody’s engagement using the platform, most especially travel influencers who rely on paid Instagram sponsorships, or digital nomads who use the platform for their work from home online jobs .

However, a strategy that seems everyone tends to forget on how to beat the algorithm is the power to use hashtags. 

Using the best Instagram travel hashtags, most notably for travel influencers, assures that their content will have an organic reach beyond their followers. 

Considering the number of travel hashtags available out there, it is hard to pick which one to use. 

This post will cover the different types of hashtags to use depending on your travel niche to help you get the best engagement for your travel content!

How Popular Travel Hashtags Work on Instagram

There are three ways to reach a brand new audience using the right Instagram hashtags, in stories, feed post, and getting discovered on the Search page. Let’s take a look below on how it works for each:

1. Travel Hashtags on Instagram Stories

Instagram rolled out a feature where users can  follow a hashtag  on stories a couple of years ago. The new feature meant that you could get more views on your stories from people following the hashtag.

2. Travel Hashtags on Instagram Feed Post

The feed post is where we generally put our favorite Instagram travel hashtags. It allows our content to appear on people’s main feed even if they do not follow our travel Instagram page. 

3. Travel Hashtags on Search Page

When we search for a specific hashtag, the search page divides the results into two categories: ‘Popular and ‘Most Recent.’

The popular section shows content with your select travel hashtag with the most engagement, while the ‘most recent’ shows recently posted content. 

Best Instagram Travel Hashtags Per Niche

Choosing the right hashtags for your travel content largely depends on the travel niche you are in. 

As you know, the travel niche is quite broad and has many different facets and sub-niches that can range from luxury travel to adventure.

To get you up to speed, I broke down a few travel niches with the best Instagram hashtags.

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Luxury Travel

If you have pictures and videos of staying in luxury villas in the Maldives, or traveling in-style like flying in first class, then the following luxury travel hashtags below will come in handy. Let’s take a few of them below:

1. #luxurytravel – 6.3 million posts

The standard luxury travel hashtag for your content. Considering this hashtag has over 6.3 million posts, much of the content that is prioritized on the search page has followers that are over 50K. 

2. #luxurytravelandhotels – More than 1000 posts

If you have content that features super expensive and luxury hotels in Bali or the Maldives, then the #luxurytravelandhotels hashtag is the perfect hashtag for your content. 

3. #luxurytraveldaily – 76.6K posts

The #luxurytraveldaily is an excellent hashtag if you have extra content lying around that you want to post to inspire your followers. 

4. #luxurytravelblogger – 48.6K posts

The hashtag #luxurytravelblogger focuses more on the individual (blogger or influencer) than the actual luxury travel itself. This is a great hashtag to use because it is not as competitive with only 48 thousand posts. Much of the Instagram profiles that are included in the popular search have under 10 thousand followers. 

5. #luxurytravelagent – 31K posts

#Luxurytravelagent is a useful hashtag if you have a travel online business! The popular page’s content is a mix of people (the travel agents) and the destination they are offering. 

6. #luxurytravels – 135K posts

Not to be confused with the first hashtag! The #luxurytravels hashtag has one more letter at the end, but with fewer posts to compete with. Many of the Instagram accounts on the popular search page features accounts with less than 25 thousand followers. 

7. #luxurytravelguide – More than 5000 posts

The #luxurytravelguide hashtag has only 5000 posts on the search page, but much of the content is getting high engagements with likes averaging 300 and above. 

8. #luxuryhotel – 2.6 million posts

The #luxuryhotel hashtag is a little bit more competitive than #luxurytravelandhotels hashtag, which might be a little bit of a disadvantage for Instagram accounts with fewer followers. 

9. #firstclass – 1.3 million posts

Mixing it up a bit and taking the word luxury out of the hashtag! If you are traveling in luxury, chances are you are going to be flying in first class. Don’t miss this popular hashtag when you take a picture of your seat in first class.

10. #firstclasslounge – 19.7k posts

If you fly in first class, there’s no doubt you will be spending some time in fancy first-class lounges. There are plenty of Instagrammable first-class lounges in the world, so make sure to take plenty of pictures and videos!

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Digital Nomads

In recent years, the rise of digital nomads has opened an endless list of Instagram hashtags for people to discover the lifestyle of working while traveling the world. If you are a digital nomad that want to take your Instagram page to the next level, below are the following hashtags for you to use:

11. #digitalnomad – 3 million posts

The hashtag #digitalnomad has over three million posts and is a standard post for many digital nomad contents. 

12. #digitalnomads – 714K posts

#Digitalnomads is a variation of the first hashtag, with an extra’s’ at the end. The variation has only 714 thousand posts, which is a lot easier to be featured on the search page than the first hashtag. 

13. #digitalnomadspirit – 20.1K posts

The digital nomad spirit hashtag features content from Instagram users showing their work and travel lifestyle. The hashtag only has 20.1K posts, which is pretty easy to be featured on the search page. 

14. #digitalnomadlifestyle – 98.1K posts

#Digitalnomadlifestyle has over 98.1K posts, both containing pictures and videos. Although the hashtag is quite competitive with over 98.1K posts, much of the account on the featured page has less than 10 thousand followers. 

15. #digitalnomadoffice – More than 1000 posts

The #digitalnomadoffice has over 1000 posts and is easy to be featured on the search explore page. If you have content working alongside the beach or in a trendy café somewhere around the world, make sure to include this hashtag and your post!

16. #digitalnomadbali – More than 1000 posts

Bali is one of the digital nomad hot spots in recent years. The city has trendy cafés with high-speed wifi, which is the perfect place for Digital Nomads!

17. #digitalnomadchiangmai – More than 5000 posts

Whereas Bali is a new hot spot for digital nomads, the city of Chiang Mai in Thailand has been the original hot spot for Digital Nomads. It has everything a digital nomad would want: cheap accommodation, high-speed wifi, and trendy cafés for people to work!

18. #digitalnomadwomen – 18.9K posts

More and more women are quitting their traditional corporate jobs to pursue a digital nomad’s lifestyle. 

19. #digitalnomadgirl – 22.5K posts

A variation to #digitalnomadwomen hashtag is #digitalnomadgirl! Add this hashtag to #digitalnomadwomen for added exposure and reach to your content. 

20. #digitalnomadfamily – 31.6K posts

Digital nomad family is a thing! I’ve met plenty of parents in my recent travels who sold their belongings to travel around the world. 

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Adventure Travel

The adventure travel hashtag is for the thrill-seekers who have content to show for it! Let’s take a look at the different types of hashtags you can post on Instagram. 

21. #adventure – 103 million posts

The adventure hashtag is the standard hashtag for this niche. It contains over 103 million posts, most of which come from accounts with over 50 thousand followers.

22. #adventuretime – 13.4 million posts

Adventure time hashtag features content with a mixture of landscape and activity related pictures and videos. The total post for this hashtag is over 13.4 million posts, which is a lot easier to be featured than the #adventure hashtag.  

23. #adventurebike – 407K posts

The hashtag for the bike lovers! The #adventurebike hashtag features content that showcases motorbikes more so than a regular bike. 

24. #adventurelife – 1.1 million posts

A popular hashtag for people who want to show off their destination. This hashtag mostly features people, as opposed to focusing on landscape, on the Instagram search results. 

25. #adventuretravel – 1.8 million posts

With 1.8 million posts, the #adventuretravel hashtag is a perfect hashtag for your Instagram travel content. The hashtag receives 1.8 million posts with high engagement (comments and likes) on the search results page. 

26. #adventureseeker – 1.7 million posts

Adventure seeker hashtag has over 1.7 million posts and would go well in addition to any of the adventure travel hashtags on this list. 

27. #adventurephilippines – 170K posts

Do you have plenty of content featuring famous islands and beaches of the Philippines? Don’t forget to add this hashtag to your post and the other adventure travel hashtags on this post to optimize your content’s visibility.

28. #adventurecouple – 209K posts

There are plenty of Instagram couples who are traveling the world today. And there’s no doubt that they’ve used this hashtag at least once!

29. #adventurefamily 138K posts

If adventure couple is a thing, so is adventure family. If you have a family with plenty of content from your travels, don’t forget to use this hashtag!

30. #adventuregram – 324K posts

Adding the word gram on any word is a sure way to reach some new eyeballs and engagement. The hashtag #adventurgram is a perfect example of that!

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Lifestyle 

Lifestyle is a popular niche that is a fusion of travel, fashion, beauty, and style. Considering the versatility of the niche, there are plenty of hashtags you can play with here. Let’s take a look:

31. #luxurylifestyle – 26.7 million posts

A hashtag to show off fancy travels, fancy clothes, fancy shoes, fancy brands – anything fancy!

32. #luxurystyle – 3.2 million posts

If you have an outfit that costs over several months’ worth of rent, then the #luxurystyle hashtag is an excellent candidate to go along with your post. 

33. #luxuryliving – 5.2 million posts

The luxury living hashtag has over 5.2 million posts and is a perfect hashtag for lifestyle influencers who have content with fancy houses, expensive cars, and a ton of bling. 

34. #luxuryfashion – 3.4 million posts

The #luxuryfashion the perfect Instagram hashtag for the lifestyle fashionistas who are up to date with today’s trendy fashion. 

35. #luxurybrand – 1.5 million posts

Do you have expensive things? Use the #luxurybrand hashtag to feature your finest things!

36. #luxurydestination – 212K posts

Part of being a lifestyle influencer is traveling to destinations where not many can afford to travel. Use the #luxurydestination Instagram hashtag for your content. 

37. #luxuryyacht – 519K posts

If you have a yacht to show off and you aren’t using this Instagram hashtag, then you are missing out in possibly being featured among 519 thousand posts. 

38. #luxurygoals – 155K posts

Luxury goals hashtag features content from Instagram accounts that curate a luxury type of content. 

39. #luxuryinteriors – 1.3 million posts

As a lifestyle niche Instagram account, you are bound to feature content of glamorous hotel or home interiors. 

40. #privatejet – 982K posts

The lifestyle of flying private jet because first class is enough!

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Photography 

To stand out as a travel Instagrammer, your photography would have to be on point. Below is a list of travel hashtags to showcase your photography skills. 

41. #photography – 594 million posts

The standard #photography hashtag is quite popular, with 594 million posts. Unless you have an Instagram following in the hundreds of thousands, it would be quite hard to get featured on the search page for this travel hashtag. 

42. #travelphotography – 121 million posts

The #travelphotography hashtag is slightly less competitive than #photography hashtag, giving you a better chance of getting featured on the popular page. 

43. #theglobewanderer – 7.3 million posts

The #globewanderer hashtag features some of Instagram’s most exceptional photography content. The hashtag comes from the popular @theglobewanderer page and  The Globe Wanderer  travel blog. 

44. #welivetoexplore – 8.2 million posts

The hashtag #welivetoexplore features similar content as #theglobewanderer in terms of photography and video style. 

4 5. #naturephotography – 114 million posts

Do you have some jaw-dropping nature shots you want to share? Use #naturephotography as your hashtag along with your post. 

4 6. #photographydaily – 1 million posts

A useful hashtag for everyday photography content on Instagram. 

47. #landscapephotography – 38.7 million posts

The landscape photography content is similar to #naturephotography hashtag, except the competition is easier with 38.7 million posts. 

48. #dronephotography – 5.5 million posts

It’s pretty rare these days to be in the travel niche and not have a drone shot. Use #dronephotography as your hashtag for your content. 

49. #underwaterphotography – 3.8 million posts

For the ocean lovers out there with plenty of underwater content, this Instagram hashtag is for you!

50. #gopro – 45.4 million posts

Who travels without a GoPro these days? The #GoPro hashtag is also perfect for adventure seekers.

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Bucket List Trips

Not many of us have been to every country in the world, which is why the bucket list hashtags work well in the travel niche. Let’s take a look below:

51. #bucketlist – 10.1 million posts

The standard hashtag with 10.1 million posts. 

52. #bucketlistadventures – 183K posts

The #bucketlistadventures is a great hashtag to use because it is not as competitive as #bucketlist.  

53. #bucketlisttravel – 180K posts

We notice that a lot of content on the popular page features Instagram accounts between 1000 to 5000 followers. 

54. #bucketlistfamily – 32K posts

The bucket list family hashtag was made popular by the coolest family on Instagram, @thebucketlistfamily

55. #bucketlistideas – 19.7K posts

The bucket list ideas hashtag is an excellent opportunity to be featured on the popular search page with only 19.7K posts. 

56. #bucketlistgoals – 31.5K posts

Another great hashtag of choice to land on the popular page of Instagram. 

57. #beautifuldestinations – 45.3 Million posts

The beautiful destinations hashtag became trendy after the popular travel Instagram account, @beautifuldestinations.

58. #bucketlistnow – 13.7k posts

The #bucketlistnow hashtag only has 13.7k posts, which gives you an excellent opportunity to land on the popular search page and even remain on that page for a few days.

59. #bucketlistchecked – 93.5K posts

The feel-good hashtag! The bucket list checked Instagram hashtag goes well with the other hashtags on this list. 

60. #bucketlist2020 – More than 1000 posts

The current global pandemic may have halted many of our travel bucket list for this year. But let’s hope 2021 will be a better year!

Instagram Travel Hashtags for Wellness Travel

Wellness travel is a booming sector of the travel industry in recent years, and it shows with the amount of content that goes live on Instagram featuring the following hashtags below.

61. #wellness – 38 million posts

The standard hashtag for this niche with 38 million total posts. 

62. #wellnessjourney – 1.5 million posts

The wellness journey hashtag goes excellent along with the rest of the hashtags on this list, make sure to add it!

63. #wellnesstips – 195K posts

Content about self-care tips floods the popular page for this hashtag. 

64. #wellnesslifestyle – 246K posts

Wellness lifestyle hashtag has over 246K posts, with accounts with less than a thousand followers featured on the popular search page. 

65. #wellnessretreat – 210K posts

The wellness retreat hashtag is all about showing activities to improve and maintain a mental and physical well being. 

66. #wellnesshotel – 141K posts

The wellness hotel hashtag mostly features nature and lush landscape surrounding the hotel. 

67. #wellnesstourism – 10.3K posts

It’s all about healthy living while traveling!

68. #wellnessresort – 19K posts

The #wellnessresort hashtag is similar content to #wellnesshotel, with the difference this hashtag being less competitive than #wellnesshotel. 

69. #wellnesstravel – 105K posts

The #wellnesstravel hashtag is similar to #wellnesstourism, except it’s slightly more competitive to be featured on the popular page. 

70. #wellnessspa – 50.1k Posts

It’s hard to pamper yourself and not be in a spa! Use #wellnessspa as your hashtag for this post. 

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13 Best Arousal Gels That'll Take Your Rendezvous to New Heights

By Jamie Ballard

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You deserve to feel good when you're masturbating or having sex, but if you're having some trouble getting there, the best arousal gel , serum, or oil can provide you the, ahem , boost you need. While these aren't exactly magic, most arousal gels increase sensitivity wherever they're applied — think the clitoris, vulva, or nipples for starters — and are formulated with ingredients like menthol, peppermint oil, CBD, and arginine to create intense sensations. Once your sensitive bits are well, more sensitive, it can be easier to reach climax (if that's your goal).

Our Top Picks:

• Best Overall Arousal Gel: Dame Arousal Serum , $30
• Best Oil-Based: Playground Mood Maker , $29
• Best Budget Pick: Tracey Cox Supersex Orgasm Gel , $13
• Best CBD-Infused: Foria Awaken Arousal Oil , $40
• Most Innovative Formula: Vella Bioscience Women's Pleasure Serum , $65
• Best Water-Based Gel: Unbound Jolt Gel , $24
• Best for Sensitive Skin: Sliquid Organics O Gel , $18
• Best for Menopausal Bodies: Rosebud Woman Arouse Stimulating Serum , $75

Frequently Asked Questions

How do arousal gels work, are arousal gels and lubricants the same thing, are arousal gels generally safe, who might benefit from using arousal gels and who should avoid them, can arousal gels increase libido.

Read our list of the best arousal gels, along with expert tips for choosing the one that's right for you.

Best Overall: Dame Arousal Serum

Dame Arousal Serum

Why It's Worth It: Dame Arousal Serum provides a tingly, warming sensation with just a few drops applied to the skin. That oh-so-nice feeling comes from plant-based ingredients including peppermint, cinnamon, rosemary leaf extract, and ginger root extract. It can be rubbed on your clit, nipples, ear lobes, or any other external spots where you want some extra sensation.

Editor Tip: It's safe to ingest in small quantities, so oral sex can definitely be on the menu.

Key Ingredients: Sweet almond oil, peppermint oil, cinnamon leaf oil, rosemary leaf extract, ginger root extract | Compatibility: Safe to use with sex toys and condoms

Best Oil-Based: Playground Mood Maker

Playground Mood Maker

Why It's Worth It: Playground Mood Maker is a silky smooth (and not sticky) arousal gel that's truly an experience for all your senses, with a gorgeous vanilla, sandalwood, rose, and ylang-ylang scent that's sure to make you feel relaxed. It's formulated with plenty of natural ingredients including ashwaganda and maca root, which studies indicate can improve sexual function in women . Other ingredients, like apricot oil and meadowfoam oil, will nourish your skin while you use it. Win-win!

Editor Tip: This one is safe to use with toys, but not with condoms. If you're looking for something condom-safe that also enhances sensations during sexual activity, consider a water-based lubricant instead.

Key Ingredients: Ashwaganda, maca, shatavari, reishi, cordyceps, apricot oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with sex toys, not safe to use with condoms

Best Budget Pick: Tracey Cox Supersex Orgasm Gel

Tracey Cox Supersex Orgasm Gel

Why It's Worth It: Tracey Cox's Supersex Orgasm Gel has over 400 five-star reviews on Lovehoney from customers who say it truly works. The water-based formula includes arginine and menthol to increase sensitivity on your clit, labia, penis, or anywhere else for heightened sensations. At less than $15, it's also a budget-friendly pick.

Editor Tip: Keep it handy while you're getting down since a few reviewers say it may need to be reapplied after a while.

Key Ingredients: Arginine, menthol, water, hydrogenated castor oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and sex toys

Best CBD-Infused: Foria Awaken Arousal Oil with CBD

Foria Awaken Arousal Oil with CBD

Why It's Worth It: Unlike most arousal gels, Foria Awaken Arousal Oil is safe to use inside the body. (That said, you should still do a patch test before getting down.) It's made with little more than coconut oil, hemp extract, and a blend of organic cardamom, peppermint, and cacao absolute essential oils. It's meant to be a "pre-lube" that gets your body ready for sexual activity and can be used in tandem with your lubricant of choice like Foria's Intimacy Sex Oil with CBD .

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Editor Tip: If CBD isn't your thing, Foria also makes a CBD-free version of the arousal oil formulated with organic botanicals such as kava root and cacao.

Key Ingredients: Coconut oil, hemp extract, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom oil, peppermint oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with polyurethane, nitrile, or lambskin condoms as well as non-latex sex toys (made with silicone, glass, or metal); NOT safe to use with latex condoms or sex toys

Best Water-Based: Unbound Jolt Gel

Unbound Jolt Gel

Ulta Beauty

Why It's Worth It: As the name suggests, this gel gives your most sensitive body parts a little jolt, thanks to invigorating ingredients like peppermint oil and arginine. When you apply Unbound Jolt Gel to your clit, nipples, or other body parts, it creates a warm, tingly sensation and makes your skin feel extra sensitive. It's made with a water-based formula, ensuring it's safe to use with condoms and sex toys made from any materials including silicone, glass, or metal.

Editor Tip: The arginine in this product can cause inflammation for people with herpes, so if you or your partner have this condition, you'll want to look for an arginine-free product.

Key Ingredients: Aloe, witch hazel extract, peppermint oil, arginine, water | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and sex toys

Most Innovative Formula: Vella Bioscience Women's Pleasure Serum

Vella Bioscience Pleasure Serum

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Why It's Worth It: More than seven years of research went into this luxe arousal gel. Vella Bioscience's Pleasure Serum is unique thanks to the inclusion of liposomes , which help the product's other ingredients like CBD permeate the skin and more effectively increase arousal. If you're not convinced yet, check out one Allure contributor's firsthand experience with the serum , which includes the phrase "I didn't just come — I exploded."

Editor Tip: This serum is safe to use with condoms and sex toys, and is also safe to taste. You can also pair it with a lubricant.

Key Ingredients: CBD, liposomes, vitamin E, lactic acid | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and sex toys

Best for Menopausal Bodies: Rosebud Woman Arouse Stimulating Serum

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Rosebud Woman Arouse Stimulating Serum

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Why It's Worth It: In addition to increasing sensitivity during sex, Rosebud Woman's Arouse Stimulating Serum is also designed to help with lubrication. Unlike many similar products, the Arouse Stimulating Serum can be used daily — whether or not you're planning to have sex — to help re-lubricate the tissue. This can be especially encouraging for people who experience vaginal dryness as a side effect of menopause or other medical conditions.

Editor Tip: It can also be used as a lubricant, so don't stress if you get some inside you or your partner.

Key Ingredients: Apricot, musk rose, maca, chamomile, ashwagandha | Compatibility : Safe to use with polyurethane, nitrile, or lambskin condoms as well as non-latex sex toys (made with silicone, glass, or metal); NOT safe to use with latex or polyisoprene condoms

Best Sensation Variety: Cake Tingle to Mingle

Cake Tingle to Mingle

Why It's Worth It: Cake's Tingle to Mingle provides both warming and cooling sensations when applied to the clit or other external body parts. It's made with plenty of natural ingredients including maca extract, cinnamon oil, and licorice root extract, and it's both vegan and gluten-free. The brand suggests starting with one to two pumps and allowing the product to absorb for up to five minutes before deciding to add more. Experimenting is part of the fun, after all.

Editor Tip: Cake also offers a very similar product called Stim for Him that's marketed more towards people with penises. According to Cake's FAQ pages, the only difference is that Tingle to Mingle is formulated with cinnamon oil while Stim for Him has peppermint oil.

Key Ingredients: Water, ginkgo biloba leaf extract, maca extract, wild yam root extract, cinnamon oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and sex toys

Best for Couples: Goop Wellness Sex Oil

Goop Wellness Sex Oil

Why It's Worth It: This lush Sex Oil from Goop Wellness can be used in a variety of ways. Yes, it has some stimulating ingredients like cinnamon and ginger if you're looking to use it as an arousal gel, but it can also be used as a massage oil for all-over exploration. Did we mention it's also a great moisturizer that you can use almost anywhere on your body?

Editor Tip: You can use it on vulvas, thighs, nipples, penises, and any other body part that feels good. We'd recommend sticking to external body parts only, though.

Key Ingredients: Cinnamon leaf oil, ginger root oil, jojoba seed oil, pumpkin seed oil, balsam fir needle oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with silicone, metal, or glass sex toys, not safe to use with condoms

Best for Sensitive Skin: Sliquid Organics O Gel

Sliquid Organics O Gel

Fun Factory

Why It's Worth It: If you have sensitive skin, these words will be music to your ears: This hypoallergenic lube is free from glycerin, parabens, and sulfates. The Sliquid Organics O Gel is formulated with skin-friendly ingredients like aloe, vitamin E, and green tea extract. Notably, it's made without arginine, so it won't cause inflammation in people with herpes.

Editor Tip: If you like a lot of stimulation during sex, apply it to other body parts like your neck or inner thigh for extra thrilling sensations.

Key Ingredients: Aloe leaf juice, peppermint oil, vitamin E, hibiscus extract, green tea extract, sunflower seed extract | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and sex toys

Best for Travel: Bijoux Indiscrets Clitoral Arousal Serum

Bijoux Indiscrets

Bijoux Indiscrets Sex Au Naturel Clitoral Arousal Serum

Why It's Worth It: While most of these gels are compact (after all, it only takes a few drops to be effective), the Bijoux Indiscrets Clitoral Arousal Serum is especially travel-friendly. It looks more like a mascara wand, so it's easy to tote along on vacation or across town to your hookup's house. While it isn't a lube, it's formulated with hyaluronic acid to improve hydration and lubrication in your vaginal area. You'll also feel a cooling, tingling effect from Frescolat (a colorless liquid used as an active cooling agent) and vitamin C in this gel.

Editor Tip: A few reviewers suggest this product is gentler than other arousal gels. So if you've been overstimulating in the past, give this one a hearty shot. It is fragranced, so just be aware if you have easily irritated skin.

Key Ingredients: Glycerin, parfum, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, cinnamyl alcohol | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and toys

Best for Shower Sex: Lovability Bomb Balm Arousal Balm

Lovability Bomb Balm Arousal Balm

Grove Collaborative

Why It's Worth It: The Lovability Bomb Balm Arousal Balm comes in a tin that reminds us of a candle, but trust us, it's way better. Peppermint oil and menthol heighten sensations while avocado, jojoba, and soybean oils team up to nourish skin. Just rub a dab of it anywhere you like — like the clit, frenulum, nipples, thighs, or anywhere else — for exciting sensations and softer skin.

Editor Tip: Because of all the oils in this formula, it doesn't rinse away easily — so it's especially perfect for shower sex or solo self-care in the bathtub.

Key Ingredients: Hemp seed oils, coconut oil, soybean oil, avocado oil, jojoba oil, peppermint oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with polyurethane, nitrile, or lambskin condoms as well as non-latex sex toys (made with silicone, glass, or metal); NOT safe to use with latex condoms or toys

Best Drugstore Pick: K-Y Intense Intimate Pleasure Gel

K-Y Intense Intimate Pleasure Gel

Why It's Worth It: Just a few drops of this water-based formula will provide intense waves of warming, cooling, and tingling sensations. One Amazon reviewer even credits the pleasure gel with saving their marriage, stating that they "are in the mood for it A LOT more than before" and are happier now. It's also one of the more affordable arousal gels on the market, and if you just can't wait for online shipping, you may find it at your local Target or Walmart.

Editor Tip: If you're feeling weird about ordering a sex product, don't stress: This ships in a plain old Amazon, Target, or Walmart box.

Key Ingredients: Water, glycerin, hydrogenated castor oil | Compatibility: Safe to use with condoms and sex toys

"Arousal gels are topical products designed to enhance sexual arousal and pleasure," explains Michelle Herzog , a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and the founder of the Center for Modern Relationships in Chicago. "They often contain ingredients like menthol or L-arginine to increase blood flow and sensitivity in the applied areas." You can put them on your clit, nipples, vulva, inner thighs, or anywhere else you want to enhance sensations.

Arousal gels can be used as part of partnered sex during foreplay, the main event, or both. But, there are a few important things to note. First off, most arousal gels should only be used on external body parts, so keep them out of the vagina or anus to avoid irritation in these zones. And secondly, you should make sure your partner has okayed the specific gel — surprise allergic reactions can really kill the mood. You can also use one of these stimulating gels with your favorite vibrator or while you're enjoying some solo self-care. Just make sure that your arousal serum of choice is compatible with your sex toys before you start getting down.

In general, no. "Unlike lubricants , arousal gel is not safe for internal use and should only be applied to the outside of your vagina, most commonly on your clitoris, since it has the most nerve endings," explains Kenosha Gleaton , MD, a board-certified OBGYN located in Charleston, South Carolina. While there are a few arousal gels and serums that can be used internally, the majority should not be used for penetrative sex.

Yes. That said, talk to your healthcare provider about any concerns or allergies you have so they can provide a recommendation. Dr. Gleaton also notes that you can always apply a small amount of the gel to your thigh or arm before using it on your genitals, so you can see how it feels and ensure you don't have an adverse reaction.

"Individuals with a lower sex drive may find arousal gels helpful in intensifying sensations and promoting a more enjoyable sexual experience," shares Herzog. She also notes that menopausal women who are experiencing changes in hormone levels, people dealing with stress or fatigue, or those with certain medical conditions that affect sexual function may find arousal gels helpful in enhancing pleasure.

However, like anything else that comes in direct contact with skin, there are precautions to take. "If you have sensitive skin or are prone to infections, like bacterial vaginosis , I recommend staying away from arousal gels," says Dr. Gleaton. "Any arousal gels that say 'cooling,' 'warming,' or have flavors may be extra irritating to your skin." As with anything you're putting on your skin, do your research.

Arousal gels are designed to enhance physical sensations, but they don't necessarily change your libido. If you're experiencing low libido or low sexual desire, there might be other factors at play. "An arousal gel is not going to fix your low desire if it's a relational dynamic," explains Herzog. "It might help your body have the response you want, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you are connected in your presence and want to be there." Suppose you're worried about changes in your libido. In that case, you may want to consult a doctor who can help you explore possible causes like hormone changes, side effects of medications, or mental health factors, and ultimately find solutions that work for you and your desires.

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The 12 Best Luxury Luggage Brands for International Travel, According to Pros

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"Sturdiness is the most important quality for long, international travel because a dense suitcase will ensure that it comes off the scanning belt without major damage," Marchant says. "Durability and a lifetime warranty are also important because you never know what can happen while traveling, who is handling your bag, or what kind of weather it has to wheel through. In the unpredictable realm of international travel, a sturdy and resilient suitcase is a traveler’s best friend."

Here, the best pieces of luggage for international travel, straight from the pros.

Paravel Weekender

Paravel is one of Schroeder’s go-to brands for personal luggage due to its quality craftsmanship, stylish aesthetic, and still-attainable price point. The Weekender is a favorite piece (Schroder calls it her “ Mary Poppins bag”), as it easily slides over the handle of any suitcase for streamlining speedy layovers.

Rimowa Original Cabin Carry-on Bag

"Large, heavy suitcases are popular because they offer more packing space, but they are cumbersome to bring around the airport and may result in additional fees when checking in," Marchant says. "I recommend travelers prioritize finding a balance between capacity and portability and ensure that their luggage is both functional and practical."

A favorite of Marchant’s (and many seasoned travel pros, for that matter), Rimowa’s aluminum suitcases are all about longevity, while boasting one of the most iconic luggage designs of the modern day. “The best quality luggage is Rimowa, without hesitation, because of its durability, capacity, design, and style,” she says. “The suitcases are an investment, but a guaranteed piece for life,” he says.

Globe Trotter Safari XL Trunk

This heritage British luggage brand was founded in 1897 and truly offers something for everyone, whether you’re a watch collector or particular enough to seek out fully customizable luggage (or both!). Globe Trotter boasts a host of unique collections, from the eternally chic safari line to collabs with luxury accessories brand Casablanca and James Bond.

The brand’s items are made from vulcanized fiberboard, which boasts being as strong as leather yet light as aluminum for seamless travel. Plus, old-school jet-setters will love Globe Trotter’s chic trunks that are suited for your next Grand Tour.

Carl Friedrik Palissy Weekend

If you’re looking for a bag that can go from office to plane to drinks and back again, look no further than Carl Friedrik's weekender bag. This heritage luggage brand focuses on premium materials, thoughtful design to improve functionality and reduce waste, and innovation that will have you hooked for life. The brand is also a go-to destination for travel accessories made from vegetable-tanned vachetta leather that will patina beautifully over the years.

AWAY The Bigger Carry-On

This Instagram-adored brand is also a personal favorite of Schroder’s, as the brand’s Bigger Carry On is her-go to when jet-setting for a variety of trips. This top-rated luggage retailer is beloved for cleverly designed products with unique features such as laundry bags, underside grab handles, lightweight yet durable shells, and array of color options for every type of aesthete.

“In my opinion, the products are well-made and available at a price point that balances both luxury and accessibility,” says Schroeder. “Most of my clients appreciate this, as they are looking for both functionality and a level of style in their luggage.”

Bric's Bellagio Pocket Spinner Trunk

The celeb-adored Italian luggage brand features a range of leather goods that appeal to a variety of styles, whether you prefer vintage-inspired designs, sleek lines, or punchy colorways. Bric’s is all about showcasing Italian craftsmanship and design innovation, from the Tuscan leather trim on the Firenze bags to the steamer trunk-inspired design of the Bellagio collection and seaside hues of the Positano collection.

Bric’s offers a five-year warranty on all wheeled products and a two-year warranty on other bags and accessories. Warning: You'll be scheming up your next trip to Italy as soon as your purchase arrives.

Hartmann Tweed Legend Medium Journey

Iconic luggage brand Hartmann first gained notoriety in 1908 with its namesake trunk winning first prize at the California exposition. It’s been serving discerning travelers ever since (think: James Bond in Ian Flemming’s novels, as well as IRL with Halston and Gloria Vanderbilt).

Schroeder is fan of both their carry-on and checked luggage options that feature American-made vegetable-tanned leather, signature tweed, and other high-performance materials to travel as far and wide as you do for decades to come. It’s a top pick for those who love soft luggage without having to sacrifice on durability or style.

Monos Check-In Large

Monos has quickly become a must-have brand for the jet-set needing Instagram-worthy luggage. But the brand is much more than a pretty face (though we do love the number of colorways offered): Monos luggage has received more than 10,000 five-star reviews and is centered around creating timeless modern heirlooms you'll treasure for years to come.

They back that up with lifetime warranties on all luggage, even if purchased from an authorized third-party retailer, along with two-year warranties for the Metro collection and packing cubes. Plus, adults and kids alike will love the stylish alphabet stickers for personalizing suitcases and more.

TUMI Extended Trip Expandable 4-Wheeled Packing Case

“My husband has all things TUMI, which is a brand we often recommend to our clients,” Schroder says.

The comprehensive travel brand is a great pick for enthusiasts of all kinds, as the brand’s portfolio ranges from suitcases in six different sizes, active backpacks, and even a host of golf accessories (the brand just became the official luggage of the PGA Tour and LPGA). This also makes TUMI an excellent option for those who are seeking a full matching set of travel goodies, as Marchant says he swears by matching family sets of luggage to help keep track of everyone’s belongings as best as possible.

The brand features a slew of valuable amenities, from the TUMI Tracer product recovery program to repair and personalization services, as well a five-year-luggage warranty (two for wallets and accessories). Plus, there are more than 300 TUMI stores around the world to test out their suite of products in person with ease.

Royce & Rocket

The youngest brand on our list, Royce & Rocket was created by two well-traveled friends in 2022 who were looking to make packing (and unpacking upon arrival) as smooth as possible, allowing people to make the most of their vacations. Their suitcases, offered in three sizes feature built-in shelving systems (in chic colors, might we add) to help you stay organized with ease, no matter how much city-hopping is on your itinerary. Don’t miss out on the brand’s catchall travel pouches for keeping your suitcase mess-free and your beauty routine a breeze while abroad.

Delsey TURENNE Medium Trunk Spinner

Since 1946, Delsey has been bridging the gap between luxury and accessibility in the luggage market. No matter what kind of traveler you are or style of luggage you prefer, the brand has something well-designed, eco-friendly, and innovative to offer. The brand created the first luggage on wheels, after all! Delsey features an authorized repair center to ensure proper upkeep for those who travel hard. The brand is available for purchase through many major retailers around the world, so it’s a great pick if you prefer to shop IRL.

BÉIS The Convertible Mini Weekender

Schroder loves BÉIS for its lightweight carryon options that can keep you organized, no matter the itinerary. This is a great brand to know for families looking for chic, kid-friendly travel gear, hard-working totes, and clever carry ons in a slew of appealing colors.

“I own the Weekender and the Backpack, and I use both on different trips, depending on the type,” she says. “For example, when traveling to Africa, the Backpack helps to keep me most organized. When traveling to Europe and I need something to hold what doesn’t fit in my carry on, the Weekender is my go-to!"

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Western wonders: 10 best small towns in the West

Best Small Town in the West (2024) April 10, 2024

The West is home to some of the most charming and scenic small towns in the country, hosting amazing art communities, tons of outdoor adventure opportunities, and top-notch dining options.

These 10 small towns — each with a population of fewer than 25,000 — have been selected by an expert panel and voted by readers as the best in the region for their diverse offerings.

No. 10: Ashland, Oregon

Located in southern Oregon, Ashland attracts thespians and theater lovers from all over with their incomparable Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ongoing since 1935. But if that’s not your thing, North Mountain Park and other nearby green spaces offer plenty of opportunities to enjoy a peaceful time outdoors. Top-notch dining, shopping, and crafts fairs and markets are also a draw.

No. 9: Durango, Colorado

Deep in southwestern Colorado is the mountain town of Durango, a place so gorgeous it's been used as the backdrop for countless films including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "City Slickers," and "National Lampoon's Vacation." Speaking of its natural beauty, you can enjoy the great outdoors in all sorts of ways here, from rafting down the Animas River to skiing and snowboarding at any of the nearby ski resorts. Visitors can also explore over a dozen historic sites and even Mesa Verde National Park.

No. 8: Williams, Arizona

Williams is a place for grand adventure and grand escapes, especially given how close it is to the one and only Grand Canyon (which can be accessed via the Grand Canyon Railway, built in 1901). But there's plenty of Americana charm to be found here, too, thanks to the town's connections to the historic Route 66. You'll see plenty of neon signs beckoning visitors to stop in for diner food, milkshakes, and kitschy souvenirs.

No. 7: Bainbridge Island, Washington

A short ferry ride west of Seattle is Bainbridge Island — a harmonious respite from the nearby city life. Try a yoga class at Dayaalu Yoga and Wellness Center or spend some quiet time inside one of the local museums, like the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, or KiDiMu (if you’ve got young ones along). The Bloedel Reserve is a major attraction for visitors of all ages, where you can explore 140 acres of meadows, forests, and gardens.

No. 6: Gig Harbor, Washington

Located along the South Puget Sound, this charming little town offers plenty of activities for a relaxing time in the Pacific Northwest. Bed-and-breakfasts are aplenty, as are scenic walking areas like the Chalet in the Woods and Crescent Creek Park. A history museum, multiple breweries and distilleries, eateries (fine dining as well as more casual grab-and-go spots), plus boat tours and even gondola rides are all available to enjoy.

No. 5: Manitou Springs, Colorado

Right outside of Colorado Springs is the absolutely charming Manitou Springs, where you can find everything from art galleries and ice cream shops to an old school penny arcade. But the bigger draws? Cave of the Winds Mountain Park, where you can take a tour of the caves and enjoy thrilling adventures, as well as the Manitou Incline, where the fittest of locals and visitors alike attempt to climb up 2,000 vertical feet via 2,744 steps.

No. 4: Cody, Wyoming

Named after Colonel William Frederick Cody (aka Buffalo Bill), this small northwestern Wyoming town is perfect for a Wild West-style getaway. Visitors can go on a wild mustang tour to learn about local wildlife, check out a re-creation of an old frontier town, or enjoy the outdoors at Buffalo Bill State Park. And for the history buffs, there are multiple museums in the area, including the Draper Natural History Museum, the Buffalo Bill Museum, and the Plains Indian Museum.

No. 3: Grants, New Mexico

Just an hour west of Albuquerque, you'll find Grants — a little town that offers proximity to a variety of unique and interesting experiences. After taking an obligatory photo with the Route 66 sign, you'll find plenty of things to do, including exploring the volcanic landscape of El Malpais National Monument and enjoying a drink and a bite to eat at Junkyard on 66 Brewery, a functioning auto salvage yard.

No. 2: Solvang, California

Sometimes you come across a small U.S. town that makes you feel like you've been transported to a totally different country, and Solvang is just that. Chock-full of Danish history and heritage, you'll find Danish-inspired architecture, including some truly charming windmills, Scandinavian eateries like the Red Viking, and even the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art. 

No. 1: Seward, Alaska

Known as the gateway to the majestic Kenai Fjords National Park, this port city offers an array of excursions for folks hoping to see glaciers up close, spot orcas and other wildlife, and be immersed in the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the area. The best part is there are so many ways to do all these things, from going dog sledding to enjoying a tour via kayak, or even visiting the Alaska SeaLife Center to see puffins and sea lions up close.

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Since the arrival of spring, my mind has been consumed with non-stop thoughts of my upcoming outdoor adventures that will make the most out of the longer, warmer days. But as I learned the hard way last year, the trademark of any great trip is being prepared with excellent travel gear. Trust me, the last thing that anyone wants is to let uncomfortable athleisure hinder their enjoyment or have a flimsy tent spoil their camping trip. When it comes to exceptional outdoor gear, REI is my ultimate destination for purchasing high-quality and dependable travel essentials that are built to last.

If you've been searching for the perfect opportunity to upgrade your gear, then you're in luck, because REI also happens to be hosting an incredible (and under-the-radar) spring sale to ring in the season. With hundreds deals on top brands like Patagonia , Vuori , New Balance , Hoka , and Cotopaxi , this sale requires some diligent scrolling, so I’ve taken the time to carefully sift through them alls to curate a list of the  50 best ones, starting at just $4 ahead of all of your upcoming ventures. 

The apparel deals at REI are truly next-level. With mega discounts on the top-rated and extra stylish Outdoor Voices Doing Things Dress and Arc'teryx Men's Cormac Crew SS Shirt in Pytheas Heather , you have the chance to upgrade your wardrobe with high-quality pieces that are perfect for any adventure. And guess what? You can snag a pair of the REI Co-op Women’s Trailsmith Overalls in Washed Blue for just $27 and even get $50 off a pair of the Kuhl Men’s Renegade Rock Pants in Bedrock . We don’t know how long these deals will last, or how much longer they’ll be in stock. So if I were you, I’d get shopping. 

• Vuori Women's Halo Essential Hoodie , $28 (originally $96)
• Outdoor Voices Doing Things Dress , $32 (originally $108) 
• REI Co-op Women's Powderbound Insulated Jacket , $100 (originally $199)
• Vuori Women's Vintage Ripstop Shorts , $30 (originally $68)
• Patagonia Women's Wind Shield Pants , $84 (originally $169)
• REI Co-op Women's Wallace Lake Flannel Shirt , $18 (originally $75)
• Arc'teryx Men's Cormac Crew SS Shirt in Pytheas Heather , $56 (originally $70) 
• REI Co-op Men’s Trailsmith Fleece Jacket in Red Cascade , $45 (originally $90)
• Kuhl Men’s Renegade Rock Pants in Bedrock , $49 (originally $99)
• Patagonia Women’s Strider Pro Shorts 3.5-inch , $23 (originally $79)
• REI Co-op Women’s Trailsmith Overalls in Washed Blue , $27 (originally $90) 
• Topo Designs Men’s Patagonia Women's Wind Shield Pants , $84 (originally $169)
• REI Co-op Men's Trail Pants , $30 (originally $100)

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Any experienced hiker, runner, or traveler will tell you that the shoes you wear (and pack) play an important role in ensuring a comfortable trip. If your shoe collection is lacking in that department ahead of spring hikes and other outdoor activities, then consider this REI sale as a clear indication that it's time for an upgrade. Whether its with a pair of the New Balance Men’s Fresh Foam X More v4 Sneakers to wear on your next run or the top-rated Merrell Men's Merrell Moab Women's Speed Mid Gore-Tex Hiking Boots for your next trek, be sure to take advantage of significant discounts on both pairs while they’re still in stock. 

• New Balance Men’s Fresh Foam X More v4 Sneakers in Summer Aqua , $112 (originally $150) 
• La Sportiva Men’s Jackal GTX Trail-Running Shoes , $117 (originally $195)
• Black Diamond Women's Fuel Approach Shoes , $93 (originally $170) 
• Allbirds Women's SuperLight Wool Runner Sneakers , $60 (originally $120)
• Helly Hansen Women’s Cascade Mid HT Hiking Boots , $88 (originally $160)
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• Merrell Men's Merrell Moab Women's Speed Mid Gore-Tex Hiking Boots , $102 (originally $170)
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Complete with stellar deals on spacious tents and campsite must-haves , REI has some of the best discounts on camping gear across the web right now. If you’re looking to turn your next camping experience into a glamping experience, I recommend snagging the REI Co-op Outward Hammock while it's on sale for $99. Or, if your camping accessory department needs a bit more love, you’ll have to check out the TheTentLab The Deuce UL Backcountry Trowel while its on sale for $15, the Princeton Tec Snap Solo Headlamp for just $21, and the cooling and UV-blocking Sunday Afternoons UVShield Cool Face Mask for a mere $4.

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• GSI Outdoors Cascadian 1-Person Table Set , $9 (originally $18)
• Big Agnes Wyoming Trail 2 Tent , $390 (originally $650)
• Alpine Mountain Gear Weekender Tent 4 , $65 (originally $150) 
• Alps Mountaineering Dash Chair , $45 (originally $120)
• Princeton Tec Snap Solo Headlamp , $21 (originally $40)
• TheTentLab The Deuce UL Backcountry Trowel , $15 (originally $20)
• Hydro Flask Cooler Cup , $15 (originally $25)
• Mountain Equipment Starlight I Sleeping Bag , $90 (originally $205)
• Leki Jannu FX TA Trekking Poles , $110 (originally $150)
• Trekmates Bomberlite Sleeping Pad , $54 (originally $120) 
• REI Co-op Outward Hammock , $99 (originally $199)

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So you’ve shopped for new camping accessories, clothes, and shoes, but what about something to carry those precious valuables in? You'll need a durable backpack, duffel, or suitcase to withstand the weight of your essentials, so that’s where REI’s deals on spacious and practical bags come in. Shoppers can score the stylish Cotopaxi Luzon Del Dia 18-liter Backpack , a roomy and sleek hiking bag for just $65 off and high-quality Eagle Creek Tarmac XE 2-Wheel 95-liter Wheeled Luggage while it's sporting an enticing $100 discount. That’s not all, as customers can also enjoy steep discounts on daypacks and hip packs for a fraction of their price. But you’ll have to act accordingly because there’s no way these bag deals will be in stock for much longer. 

• Eagle Creek Tarmac XE 2-Wheel 95-liter Wheeled Luggage , $240 (originally $339)
• Cotopaxi Luzon Del Dia 18-liter Backpack , $45 (originally $60) 
• Granite Gear Perimeter 35 Pack , $112 (originally $230) 
• Patagonia Ultralight Black Hole Mini Hip Pack , $24 (originally $35)
• Patagonia Fieldsmith Roll-Top Pack , $70 (originally $129)
• Osprey Heritage Aether 30 Backpack , $98 (originally $180)
• Topo Designs Mini Shoulder Bag , $27 (originally $39)
• Gregory Men’s Zulu 30 Pack in Fiery Red , $120 (originally $160)
• Sherpani Women’s Cabo Convertible Pack , $52 (originally $75)
• Kavu Wombat Pack , $45 (originally $65)
• REI Co-op Big Haul 28 Recycled Duffel , $70 (originally $100)
• Mountain Hardwear Camp 4 Duffel , $91 (originally $130)

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