In TikTok there is also a lot of travel
During these days of quarantine, the options when it comes to continuing to "travel" from home are increasingly varied: virtual tours, movies and series, sensory visits (as the latest MoMA museum initiative demonstrates) or, of course, social networks.
And although a first impulse leads us to think of Instagram, tags like #travelgram and cool Stories, the truth is that TikTok, increasingly emerging, is emerging as the perfect oasis for any traveler who, in addition to flying through the skies, seeks to do so with a smile.
Beyond videos of Drake's choreography or random moments turned into pure gold, TikTok has not only established itself as the fashionable social network, but also as a perfect alternative when it comes to continuing to travel in a different way. We would say, even more creative and fun.
Launched in 2016 under the name Douyin by the Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok is an application that consists of creating short videos of just 15 seconds, usually accompanied by music.
Introduced to the rest of the world in 2017, TikTok has seen a meteoric rise to become the most downloaded app in the world during the first quarter of 2020 (without going any further, only in February it had 113 million downloads) surpassing other applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram or the queen of isolation: Zoom.
Metrics that confirm the potential of a social network in which you chew a secret world of travel, madness and new perspectives.
WHAT MAKES TIKTOK SPECIAL?
“The main feature of TikTok is that it brings freshness as it is a way of communicating to a new public”, Nicolás Ierino tells Traveler.es , account blogger travel life , which already has over 187,000 followers on TikTok. "It is possible to adapt the content and combine it with sounds, being able to capture people's attention in less than 15 seconds."
In addition to this function, another of the many that TikTok points to consists of the possibility of proposing challenges that quickly go viral , as well demonstrated in 2019 the challenge #TikTokTravel , through which people from all over the world were invited to launch their own travel creation.
Nevertheless, There are still many Instagram addicts who can't help but compare it to TikTok: “The main difference between TikTok and Instagram is the algorithm Nicholas points out.
“Not only does TikTok allow you to reach more people, but the videos are displayed over time. In this way, being mainly a short video social network allows us to be much more creative than using only images and text. “Instagram allows uploading videos and IGTV, but it is not its essence,” he continues.
An ode to carpe diem version 2020 that finds in Nicolás's account just one of the many traveling examples that swarm TikTok: from La La Land-style date night in Los Angeles until shy flamingos in aruba , going by a perfect morning buying fruit in Bali either ballet dancers blended with the sunset of the Salar de Uyuni , in Bolivia.
And although the TikTok fever is just taking off among influencers in our country, in many others it has already become a unique ally for the world of travel. Even in times of isolation.
TIKTOK: TRAVEL IN TIMES OF QUARANTINE
In these days of confinement, the options for traveling from home have multiplied, being TikTok is one of the best shortcuts to succumb to the wanderlust spirit that we miss so much.
For examples, the challenge proposed by Dubai Tourism, which invited to represent a view of the city from the window of an airplane. Within minutes, hundreds of users began uploading videos of themselves "peeking" through their washing machine or simulating a first-class trip from their front door.
Other crazy things are added to this challenge, such as** the representation of Disney park attractions on TikTok**, as is the case of the user Drake Bell, who reproduces his particular (and successful) version of the Haunted Mansion attraction on his account through through different pictures of the most creepy.
If, in your case, cosplay and extreme "posing" are not your thing, you always have consume thousands and thousands of proposals that represent a reinvention of our favorite places in the world. Both of those we once visited and those to come.
"These days of quarantine at home we have a lot of travel material still pending to share," continues Nicolás. "Since it is not the time to travel, the idea is to inspire and distract people's daily lives these days with good landscapes."
The best excuse to keep traveling. Or even imagine a quarantine like this.