To think that most people who say they love “travel” just like posting about it?

[TicklishCoralScroller]

You didn’t “immerse yourself in the culture,” you took selfies at a resort.

@TheAmusedQuail

By all means love your hols. Revel in them. But you're not a world traveller. You're a tourist. Of the type that some countries are starting to protest against.

Who gets to police this though? Who decides what the difference between “travel” and “tourism” is?

There’s a real snobbery underlying this. “Travel” in the sense that you are implying is prohibitively difficult for anyone who has a job or is raising a family. I prefer independent travel to tourism as well personally but I can’t take off and spent six months trekking the Andes because I have commitments. If you’re someone who has never been overseas then a week in Southern Europe is a big deal.

If people want to spend two weeks of their precious annual leave on a beach in Spain let them crack on and if they want to put a couple of harmless posts on Facebook or Instagram where’s the harm?

Ignore or mute it if it’s irritating. No need for the stealth snobbery.

I love travel.
I have never posted about it online.

I don't go to resorts.
I have never taken a selfie in my life. Anywhere.

We are not all the same, OP, so generalisations don't really work.

Where did I say they shouldn't be tourists? It's more the 'upselling' attitude and the lies about it being a cultural trip. Be honest. 2 weeks on a beach is a jolly.

@TheAmusedQuail

Be honest. 2 weeks on a beach is a jolly.

It might be a jolly to you and I but if you have never left the UK before it’s a big deal.

If you have never eaten foreign cuisine before or been in an environment where English is not spoken as a first language it is cultural.

If people are sneered at for taking first steps to broaden their knowledge and experience how are they supposed to do it?

Anyway who cares?

I'm not sneering - I don't begrudge anyone a break, but I do agree with @TheAmusedQuail

Honestly, how many people on a two week beach holiday actually leave the beach/beach bars/beach cafe/hotel restaurant, other than one obligatory day trip to a tourist trap?

It's a holiday, it's not travel. And that's totally fine.

How have you come to this conclusion? Of course people travel without posting everything on social media.

I’ve said it before and will say it again: it is going to cause trouble in years to come when all these toddlers grow up and decide it was a gross intrusion of their privacy to have their pics spattered all over social media - esp with captions like: our little Amelia Kate Wallace is 3 today.” Thanks Mum/ Gran. You’ve just shared face image, plus full name, and birth date …

Id rather people were posting pics of themselves in front of the Eiffel Tower (which might be jealousy-inducing but their business), rather than parading under-age family members.