INSTAGRAM: A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, was the world’s most Instagrammed location this year, according to a survey by the photo-sharing app. Its 2017 hit-parade also includes a list of the 10 most Instagrammed cities. On that list, New York City takes the biggest bite. The lists are based on the most popular geo-tags, by which people use the GPS system on their smartphones to automatically identify where they are. Rounding out the top five locations, in order from two, were Times Square and Central Park in New York; the Eiffel Tower in
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Paris; and Tokyo Disneyland.
Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida; the Louvre in Paris; the Brooklyn Bridge; the Disney California Adventure Park (also in Anaheim, US); and the Las Vegas Strip rounded out the top 10.
The Louvre was also the world’s highestranking museum.
When it came to cities, New York was followed by Moscow, London, São Paulo, and Paris.
Los Angeles in the US; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Istanbul, Turkey; and Barcelona, Spain, completed the top 10.
While Africa is pitifully absent from any of the global top 10s, the online travel group TravelBird undertook its own survey earlier this year, in which it concluded that, of the most Instagrammed tourist destinations in the world, only one South African spot made it into the top 500.
That honour went to the Kruger National Park, which the company ranked 49th in the world with 410 763 tags. (In case you’re wondering, Cape Town was disqualified because it’s a city too).
The latest lists from Instagram also reveal the most popular hashtags — with #travel coming in at number seven.
Number one? Well, that’s #love, of course.