Top 10 Travel Bloggers On Snapchat To Follow

By: Author Hannah Lukaszewicz

Posted on Last updated: 14 September, 2023

Top 10 Travel Bloggers On Snapchat To Follow

If you haven’t noticed already I am obsessed with Snapchat. I even got my gramma on Snapchat, it did require writing her a Gramma’s guide to Snapchat post but none the less she’s snapping along! I love sharing with everyone our day-to-day lives as we travel this amazing world. You’ll get a peek at where in the world we are and what we are up to, where we are sleeping, what we’re eating, what we are seeing, the crazy adventures we get into, and the lovely mishaps that come with traveling.There are several travel bloggers on Snapchat you can follow right from your desk. Why not come on vacation with us via Snapchat travel?

Snapchat is more than just sharing my travels, I love following my fellow travel bloggers on Snapchat too. I feel like I am traveling along with them through their Snapchat travel stories. WARNING:  Some of them will make you starving as they share snaps of an amazing Thai meal on the beach in Koh Lipe Thailand  or street tacos in Mexico…

Besides following Adam & I, you should also follow along with my top 10 travel bloggers on Snapchat:

1. Drew @drewbinsky

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If I had to pick my favorite snapper it would be Drew. Drew runs the blog The Hungry Partier, which as the names says he likes to party. Originally from Arizona but alumntime.com/…/princeton-review-top-party-schoolsi of University of Wisconsin-Madison currently ranked #3 party college in America! Go Badgers!  This summer his Snapchat was full of music festivals, clubs all over Europe by night and sightseeing by day. Drew’s time in Europe is over, thanks to the 90-day visa rule…last time I checked he was in Georgia staying with a Nigeran couch surfing host.

2. Carlo & Florence @nxtstopwhoknows

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Ever wonder what India is really like? Carlo & Florence run the travel blog  Next Stop Who Knows are originally from Ireland but have been traveling the world nonstop since 2013.   These two are currently snapping daily life in India for the next 3 months. You will see everything from chaos on the streets of Mumbai, cows in the street, people bathing with gutter water, and recently a visit to a temple housing 15,000+ rats

3. Matt @expertvagabond

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Matt is no stranger to the travel blogging scene, his blog Expert Vagabond was one of our inspirations to take our RTW trip and start Getting Stamped. Last month he was snapping his way around Ireland as he was retracing his family heritage with his parents. Since then he has been in NYC, Miami, and his last snap was in Playa del Carmen Mexico where he’s sitting still for awhile…until he gets the travel itch again!

4. Erin @travelwitbender

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Erin, along with her husband and two children make-up the traveling family Explore With Erin . They left Australia in 2012 and have been exploring the world with their 2 young kids ever since. They just started a US & Canada road trip like our #epicUSroadtrip. Erin is currently snapping in Canada.

5. Edna @ExpatEdna

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Edna from Expat Edna has been living & working abroad since 2008. Originally from Pennsylvania, she has lived & worked in Singapore, China, Italy, and Paris. She’s currently in Paris snapping away, but just last month she was in Italy making me hungry with all her tasty snaps!

6. Kate @AdventurousKate

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Kate quit her job at 2010 and has been traveling the world as a solo female traveler running the travel blog Adventurous Kate . She just returned home to Boston after a summer snapping in Europe. I loved watching her snaps in Latvia, Sicily, and Scotland.

7. Anna @anna-everywhere

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One day Anna is London, the next day in Turkey, and the next week eating tacos in Mexico. Anna’s blog Anna Everywhere is so fitting for this globetrotter. You may even see me make a few appearances in her snaps, we’re both living in Playa del Carmen at the moment.

8. Stephanie Be @travelbreak

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Stephanie from Travel Break calls L.A. her home base, but you will rarely find her there. Stephanie gets around the world, currently in Bangkok. Just a few weeks ago she was playing on the beaches in Cabo with her best friend. You never know where she will end up next.

9. Ryan @p4use

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Ryan is the man behind Pause The Moment is originally from New England but he hates the cold…therefore, he has been basing himself in Playa del Carmen, Mexico the past year. He said adios to his corporate job back in 2010. This summer he too was all over Greece, and currently on a boat in Turkey.

10. Hannah & Adam @GettingStamped

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Yep, I am that person to include themselves in a list! If you haven’t been following us on Snapchat over the past 6-months you have really missed out…we had 2 months of snaps from our overland African safari and the past 2 months of our #epicUSroadtrip. BUT it’s not too late to join in on the fun. The rest of 2015 is going to be a whirlwind, we will be in 10 countries before Christmas! Make sure to catch every moment of it on Snapchat.

Who are your favorite travel bloggers on Snapchat? 

Saturday 10th of December 2016

Haha! So I just found this because I tried googling myself. Thank you for including me guys!

We got you girl! Hope to see you more on Snapchat soon.

Abegail Smith

Monday 5th of December 2016

Great article!! So very interesting. Thanks for sharing this. :)

Snapchat is a great way to travel the world with amazing travel bloggers. WARNING your bucket list will get longer though!

Sunday 23rd of October 2016

Ive been following your travels for a while now! Your blog is one of the easiest for me to read! English is not my native language but you manage to keep me engaged in everything you write!

I have a question, I have a travel blog as well (in Spanish) and I was thinking about starting a snapchat account (as if facebook, twitter, instagram, pinterest were not enough haha IM GOING CRAZY). The thing is...Im still not sure I know how to use it properly.

The thing that confuses me the most is whether I should add everyone back or not. I posted my snapchat username and I got added by my readers and...now what? Haha In order for them to see my snaps I should add them back, right? Or how do you guys do? Do you just share stories with your followers and leave the snaps for your friends?

Im 28 but Im starting to feel like the grandma who doesn't now how to use Facebook.

Im following you on Snapchat and all I can see are stories, so I guess you don't add back...but...how? HOW DO YOU DO?!?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*runs around the house going crazy*

Shelby Berke

Tuesday 30th of August 2016

I love love love following bloggers on Snapchat! We have been snapping our way through Taiwan so far and all of our family and friends love seeing what we are up to on a day to day...and all the crazy things we find along the way! It also lets us save a snapshot of what everyday life is about and not just the perfect travel photo.

With Snapchat being so hard to find other others (compared to all other social media sites) do you have any tips for getting your name out there? This and not being able to change your handle have been my only complaints so far...we accidentally got going with a personal account instead of our blogging name (@highimscott has a lot less ring to it than it should). I'm not sure if it is worth switching the handle and starting again from scratch or not.

Friday 2nd of September 2016

Glad you found us! Yes, it is hard to get your name out there and grow your account, even more impossible since you can't mention it on Facebook they will show no one the post. Do takeovers with other bloggers, that gets your name & face in front of their followers. Try to get on lists is big too. I never looked into switching our handle, everything for us is @gettingstamped we haven't had time the last 3 years to have anything personal been so busy with the blog & traveling.

Safe travels!

Rutavi Mehta

Thursday 16th of June 2016

Now that's a lovely list I must say :) But you need to also add a list of snapchatters from a different region. I am doing so soon. I show lively India to you :) Mine is Rutaagayire btw..

Thats a good a idea. RIght now the list is travel bloggers traveling to the regions not living in the region. But if you have suggestions for India please email me [email protected]

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Airbnb looks to be heading down the social route, introducing a new feature that lets travelers share their stories.

If you’re already thinking, “Hang on … stories … like Snapchat Stories , which Instagram , Facebook , and others have already nabbed for their own services?” then you’d be absolutely on the money.

The accommodation service is quietly testing the feature, which, similar to Snapchat’s offering, lets you showcase your travels through a collection of short videos.

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Working on both mobile and web, the Travel Stories let viewers swipe through the videos that make up the presentations, with each clip lasting up to 10 seconds.

Viewers can also tap on links for further information about the featured location and, of course, the Airbnb property, if it’s included in the Travel Story. So, if you take a look at this one compiled by “Chelsea” during a trip to Havana in Cuba, we see 10 different posts documenting various aspects of her trip.

Click on the Havana links in the Travel Story and you’ll be taken to an Airbnb page featuring various Airbnb-led experiences that you can enjoy in the city. Other links appear according to the clip, each taking you to an Airbnb page with more information about what you’re watching.

Alternatively, you can scroll down the page to see all the links laid out together.

The feature is being tested with a select group of users, and at the current time only works for the iPhone.

A page on Airbnb’s website  offers a few tips on how to create a Travel Story. It recommends aiming for 10 video clips per Story, all of which can be easily pulled from your camera reel.

You’re also able to add tags that create the links to other Airbnb pages related to the destination.

Once you’re done and you’re satisfied with the preview, you can post it in a tap.

The new feature, if it’s launched for the entire Airbnb community, certainly has the potential to make the service a lot more personal. It should also keep users locked into the site for longer as they spend time exploring what’s on offer while they plan their trip. Ultimately, Airbnb will hope that travelers’ experiences depicted in the Stories will encourage others to hit the “book” button for one of its many accommodation options  or experiences .

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Follow These Eight Travelers On Snapchat And They’ll Show You The World

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If you’re of a certain age, chances are you’re on Snapchat. Maybe you use it to send ridiculous photos to friends, post funny images of your cat, or follow your favorite celebrities. Or maybe it just sits idle on your phone because you never quite figured it out.

No matter what your situation is, if you’re not currently using Snapchat to virtually travel the world — and get inspired to travel in real life — you’re missing out. While Instagram allows you to see beautiful moments from the road , Snapchat makes the entire travel experience feel real .

So, to enable your travel addiction and make your time spent on Snapchat a lot more global, we’ve rounded up eight of the best travel bloggers on Snapchat — a collection of vagabonds who can show you the world, one snap at a time:

Krista Simmons (username: krista_simmons)

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As a traveling food writer and on-camera food expert (she’s been a judge on Top Chef Masters ), Krista is on a mission to uncover the world’s most delicious eats — with special attention paid to street food and far flung farmers markets. When she’s not snapping from the road, you’ll find her sharing snaps of L.A.’s diverse food scene, delicious home cooked meals, and her cute shiba inu named Bento. No matter where she is, Krista’s goofy and fun-loving personality make her snaps a ton of fun to watch.

Upcoming Trips: Krista is currently on an incredible, three-week culinary voyage through Southeast Asia.

Drew Binsky, also known as The Hungry Partier (username: drewbinsky)

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Throughout that time, he’s visited 74 countries and given followers a behind-the-scenes look at the life of a full-time traveler (ups and downs included). As you might expect, Drew’s snaps are filled with food and party scenes (dude knows his festivals), as well as introductions to the interesting characters he meets along the way.

Upcoming Trips: Over the next several months, Drew will be snapping from the Philippines, Vietnam, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands, Thailand, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Kiersten Rich, also known as The Blonde Abroad (username: theblondeabroad)

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Ever since quitting her job in corporate finance, Kiersten has been traveling the world in style and inspiring others to do the same. On Snapchat, she shares her bubbly personality along with the unedited, everyday travel experiences behind her highly curated blog and Instagram feed. Between the gorgeous places she travels and her infectious good vibes, you won’t want her snap stories to end.

Upcoming Trips: Over the next several months, you’ll find Kiersten snapping from Bali, NYC, Austria and South Africa.

Marko and Alex Ayling, also known as the Vagabrothers (username: vagabrothers)

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While their YouTube series presents a super polished look at destinations around the world, their snaps will give you an off-the-cuff and laid back view of their lives on the road. From culinary exploration to cultural discovery, you can expect a little bit of everything from the Vagabrothers’ snaps.

Upcoming Trips: Currently, you can catch the Vagabrothers in Quebec. After that, they’ll be off to Northern England, Berlin, and Southwest Germany.

Hannah Lukaszewicz of Getting Stamped (username: gettingstamped)

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Firstly, when they’re not traveling, they live in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. So, you can expect jealousy-inducing snaps of the beach. Also, tacos. But when they’re on the road, which they are often, you’ll see Hannah in front of the Snapchat camera showing off exotic destinations and giving you a look at both the glamorous and not-so-glamorous aspects of their adventures.

Upcoming Trips: Over the next few months, you’ll find Hannah snapping from the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Israel’s West Bank, Jordan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

Kate McCulley, also known as Adventurous Kate (username: adventurouskate)

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Also strong: Kate’s Snapchat game. Wherever in the world she’s snapping from, Kate is 100% Kate — meaning she’s not afraid to be silly and sometimes disarmingly blunt while giving you an unfiltered view of her world as a traveler. From taking you on snap tours of European cities to singing like Cartman in Sicily (after seeing a street named Via del Ghetto), Kate’s snaps are sure to make you laugh.

Upcoming Trips: Over the next few months, you’ll find Kate snapping from Puerto Rico, California and the Caucasus.

Matthew Karsten, also known as Expert Vagabond (username: expertvagabond)

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On Snapchat, he shares informative and fun glimpses into his vagabond lifestyle — which almost always involve beautiful destinations and once in a lifetime travel experiences.

Upcoming Trips: Matthew is currently in Norway. After that, you’ll find him in Mexico and Cuba.

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Iowa State Fair on Snapchat in August 2015 (good Story but needed more about the famous Butter Cow)

I wouldn’t yet include it in my list of favorite travel apps , but the see-it-once-and-you’re-done photo/video app Snapchat  is an intriguing development in the world of digital travel communications.

If you think Snapchat is just disappearing boob shots between teenagers, it may be time to reconsider.

I’m still pretty incompetent at sending snaps myself – my brain thinks in text rather than visuals – but I follow some accounts that are really clever, like LACMA (the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.)

What draws me to the app every day, though, are the Snapchat Live Stories.

What are Snapchat Stories?

In contrast to disappearing snaps sent between people that are gone after you tap and see them once, Stories are put together by Snapchat’s editors, they are available for 24 hours, and they can be viewed over and over. You never know what’s coming up, which is how they get you to check the app frequently.

They are a mashup video of people’s snaps taken in various locations and at events. The number in the upper right circle is a countdown of seconds remaining in the video. You can tap your screen to skip sections.

Snapchat screenshot from the Guadalajara Story

Snapchat screenshot from the Guadalajara Story

Stories are raw representations by the people who are there, and they give the viewer a sense of immediacy, immersion, and personality that I haven’t seen with other apps.

Having a bowl of gumbo on the Mississippi in New Orleans Snapchat Story Aug 2015

Having a bowl of gumbo on the Mississippi in New Orleans Snapchat Story Aug 2015

Where in the World is a Snapchat Story?

I’ve watched everything from the opening night of University of Kentucky basketball to the Iowa State Fair to surfing events in Australia to bagpipe championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Snapchat screenshot of Team Sri Dasmesh Pipe Band members who were competing in the Bagpipe World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland

Featured places with Stories have included Cairo, New Orleans, Kenya, Madrid, and Perth, Australia.

In the New Orleans one I saw paid content for the first time – a couple of sections of the video included musicians who live in New Orleans, sponsored by Apple Music. It didn’t ruin the experience with marketing, although those clips were a professionally-produced, artsy black and white as opposed to the less-polished clips from regular people.

Screenshot from LACMA's Tumblr of one of their funny Snapchat posts

Screenshot from LACMA’s Tumblr of one of their funny Snapchat posts

There is also a Discover section with snaps from brands like ESPN, the Food Network, and National Geographic, but I never seem to check them as often as I do the daily Stories.

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I woke up to a story this morning in my local Statesman news media about people in Austin making Snapchat geofiltered graphic overlays for snaps taken around town. Other people can use this artwork on their own snaps, once the design and geofilter are approved by Snapchat.

Go here to learn about making Snapchat overlays in your town .

Even if you aren’t ready to do much on Snapchat yourself, download the app to check out the daily Stories for a dose of you-are-there travel experiences.

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12 Travel Bloggers You Need To Be Following On Snapchat

When I first came across Snapchat, it had a reputation for teenagers sending cheeky photos to one another. Trying to convince people that it was the next best thing in social media was tough.

But Snapchat has evolved from those early days. The live story feature was a game changer. It gives the user an insight into the lives of their friends, favorite celebrities and top bloggers.

Through Snapchat, I follow many bloggers who inspire me, make me laugh and really show me the world through their adventures. You can't edit Snapchat. It's in the moment, uncensored and raw, and that's why I love it.

These are some of the most inspiring travel bloggers on Snapchat:

1. Katie: @the_hostelgirl

As the name suggests, Katie's blog The Hostel Girl focuses predominantly on hostels, but you'll also find city guides, road trips and tour reviews. The snaps of her trips are always entertaining, honest and funny, and she interacts with followers with giveaways and competitions. You'll generally find her in Morocco or Amsterdam, and her next trips are Czech Republic, Italy and Spain. Oh, and watch out for appearances from her cute little pug, Frankie, who often steals the show.

2. Mike: @kickthegrind

Mike is a break-dancing Marine Biologist turned YouTuber and photographer. If that's not reason enough to follow him, he uses Snapchat to seek out adventures, weird creatures and anything involving adrenaline. The reason I put him on this list is his YouTube experience makes him an awesome presenter, something which is a little rare on Snapchat. He was recently in Madagascar working on a project to save bamboo lemurs from extinction — awesome. The next few months will see Mike move to Mexico City, trek Machu Picchu, explore the Bolivian salt flats and a take road trip through Canada.

3. Petra: @travelmassive

Travel Massive is a community for travel professionals. The account is managed by Petra, a videographer from Prague. She mixes the snaps between her own adventures and behind the scenes of Travel Massive. She's recently been volunteering at a refugee camp in Idomeni on the Greece-Macedonia border, and she regularly posts Snapchat and blogging tips. In her words the next few months are a mystery, but one thing's for sure: You should follow the adventure on Snapchat and YouTube .

4. Nate: @worldwidenate

In Nathan's (aka World Wide Nate ) snaps, you'll feel like you're living the experience. His descriptive presenting and massive smile make you feel his passion for travel. He'll show you adventure, food and culture from around the world, with an LA accent. The next trips for Nathan include India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Kenya, South Africa, France, London and Australia.

5. Scott: @intrepidescape

So I do this myself too. You'll find me snapping crazy travel adventures, road trips and festivals. I'm a travel writer for Intrepid Escape from England. So you'll get mix of British humor and mickey-taking, mostly out of myself and my quest for the ultimate selfie . I'm trying a new extreme Snapchat feature, which will most probably see me lose my iPhone numerous times this year.

Look out for my next trips, which include Guatemala, Belize, California, Interrailing through Eastern Europe, South Africa, Israel, the Philippines, Colombia and Brazil, and hopefully a few music festivals before the end of 2016. You can also follow along on Instagram .

6. Will: @wthatton

Will from The Broke Backpacker is currently on a three-year adventure from the UK to Papua New Guinea, without flights. Right now, he's driving a tuk-tuk across India. His snaps are so entertaining, sarcastic and brutally honest, with language that's uncensored and probably NSFW It's great. He has a ton of adventures coming up, with plans to visit Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, China and Tibet, before Southeast Asia and eventually Papua New Guinea.

7. Brian and Noelle: @wanderingonblog

Brian and Noelle from Wandering On are an adventurous Irish couple who live to travel. They've been moving from place to place since 2009, exploring foreign cultures and food, and recently road-tripped across New Zealand. I love their snaps. They're funny, entertaining, interesting and all in an Irish accent. For their next adventure, they'll head to Eastern Europe and base themselves in Belgrade before heading to Australia for a year.

8. Alyssa: @mylifesamovie.c

Alyssa from My Life's a Movie is a self-made travel blogger who specializes in adventure and sarcasm. She's turned travel into a career and wants to inspire others to do the same. Her snaps show her adventures in real life, but I've included Alyssa because of her practical travel tips and tutorials. On top of this, she'll show you the behind the scenes of her GoPro shots on Instagram . Next up, she plans to head over to Asia and then visit Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, possibly India and South America, and her dream destination is Antarctica.

9. Drew: @drewbinsky

In my opinion, Drew from The Hungry Partier is the king of travel Snapchat. He was one of the first and always keeps things entertaining for his followers with giveaways and Q&A sessions. He's obsessed with meeting new people and trying bizarre foods. Drew has visited 75 countries since 2012 and is one of those bloggers who is nearly always traveling. Drew's is currently traveling around New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu, Vietnam and the Philippines.

10. Becki: @bordersofadv

Becki is a British Travel Press Award-winning writer and avid explorer. Her website,  Borders of Adventure , is a resource of travel, where she combines inspiration with social, historical, political and cultural reporting. Becki's snaps generally show her daily travels, but on top of that, she actually explains something interesting about the place she's visiting. She's just moved from Greece to Vienna, and her next trips around Europe are to Spain, Budapest, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Poland and Germany.

11. Alicia: @aliciaexplores

Alicia, aka Alicia Explores , is a travel and lifestyle presenter, writer and video content creator from London. Alicia's snaps are always creative, funny and a little crazy, and her 10 years experience making videos make her a great presenter on Snapchat. Alicia will also introduce you to everyone and anyone she meets as she travels (including the Bellman dancing to Justin Bieber in Miami). The next plans for Alicia are to head to Poland to honor her Polish routes, then visit Scotland, Amsterdam, and USA.

12. Tyson: @tysontravel

Tyson, aka The Naked Traveller , is not just a travel blogger. He's also a TV personality following appearances in Australia's "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here" and "MTVTrippers." He's also a charity ambassador and recently claimed the title of "Chief World Explorer," which won him $100,000 and 12 months of travel.

But it's the charity stuff that got me hooked on his Snaps. When he spent time installing water filters in Africa, he took Snapchat with him to meet locals and get lost in urban favelas. Next up for Tyson is a new travel app, and then trips to China, Tanzania, Alaska, Cuba, Mexico, Italy, South Africa and possibly Antarctica.

So whether you're planning a round the world ticket, looking for inspiration for your next adventure or just want to try and satisfy your wanderlust, then these are the travelers to follow. All of us write about travel to inspire others, and, through Snapchat, we will literally show you the world through our eyes, one adventure at a time.

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7 Travel Snapchatters You Need To Be Following

If you aren’t on Snapchat you’re missing out! 

Yes, even with the most recent social media changes to Instagram (Instagram Stories), Snapchat is still the one that started it all. Snapchat has turned into a branding and marketers dream and if you’re smart enough to learn how to use it correctly you’ll be one of the talented few who are killing it right now.

Want to learn how to kill it on Snapchat? Well, my best advice is to follow the BEST and take notes. 

WARNING: All these Snappers might influence quitting your job to travel the world.

Please proceed with caution., 1.  drewbinsky.

I refer to him as the 'Snapping God'. I know, bold statement, but it's true. Drew is a red head from Arizona who's been traveling the world and has created a TV Show from snapping.

Want to learn how to engage, interact and create quality branding? He's your guy. He also uses Snapchat to connect with this followers. It's the best way to reach him! 

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2.  DanandMoore

Creativity at its finest. Dan Moore, is a well known Australian Youtuber. 

He can take the award for pretty cool or "snazzy" (as he refers to it) snaps. Dan has a unique style of sharing great content, products, and giveaways on his snaps. He truly pushes the limits of snapping.

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3.  Gloria Atanmo (@gl0)  

Girl Power to this young lady here! Gloria is a female travel blogger from Arizona. If you’re in need for some a great sense of humor in your day, follow Gloria. She is the definition of 'real'.

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4. TysonTravel

The adventure snapper! Tyson is a travel blogger and awesome YouTuber from Australia who travels the world in search of adventure. He is always creating some epic adventure videos or snapping his Skydiving stunts from Australia.  

If you're looking to fill your day with excitement or a reason to quit your job and travel the world, Tyson is your man. (YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!)  

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5.  MyLifesAMovie.c

Alyssa Ramos is another female travel blogger from California! She's a hilarious snapper who isn't afraid to share with her audience her sarcasm and personality. Alyssa has always got something to say. 

Plus, she's always sharing travel secrets on her snaps. Everything from favorite travel products to how to pack for 3 months with carry-on luggage!

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6. nadia_dailyself

Nadia is travel/lifestyle writer and make-up artist from Ireland. She always looks her best and is never afraid to share her opinions either. 

She's also always sharing beauty tips, and travel secrets when she's traveling the world.

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7. MitchellOates

Another Aussie who pushes the limits of social media. Mitch made his very first debut on Periscope when he was the FIRST person to surf while periscoping in Australia. From there he's done tons of underwater and drone scopes too. Catch him on snapchat for some goofy laughs and amazing sunset views.

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Traveling Vicariously Through Snapchat

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Although this has been and will be reiterated to the point of overkill on this blog, we at WeTravel are passionate about travel. It’s one of our many loves.  But as much as we would love to travel 24/7, we know that not everyone can do so and we realize how stressful and costly traveling can be. So, we’re trying to find the next best thing and we may have found it on Snapchat.

We know, we know. Snapchat and travel? Say what?! That was our first thought too. The mobile app and travel don’t seem to have very much in common. After all, you probably know Snapchat as that app that your friend uses to take selfies as they’re waiting to get on the bus or as that app that you use to trick your friend into thinking that you’re taking a picture when in reality, you’re really taking a video. Although they seem like an unlikely pairing, we at WeTravel have quickly discovered that Snapchat is a great tool to see and learn more about the world.

For example, take their “Live Stories.” We’ve found that this Snapchat feature offers users a different location for each day, which gives people the chance to learn more about a specific place, its history, its attractions, and even the people who live there. “Live Stories” not only offers glimpses of a new locale each day, but it also gives locals the opportunity to showcase their cities and their pride for them. Only people who are currently in those locations can add to the “Live Stories” feature of those cities, which allows individuals to show the best, and possibly lesser-known, sights, sounds, and tastes of each city. These live events also feature many diverse places, including Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Nairobi, and Dubai. And who knows? Maybe some of these locales will inspire you to visit them on your next trip! These live stories allow Snapchat users to virtually explore and experience a ton of different things, from festivals to cities to even award shows, which also offers a great alternative or respite for people who can’t immediately jump on a plane to visit cities across the globe.

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Along with this feature, we at WeTravel have also found a number of Snapchat users to add if you’re interested in a travel adventure without leaving the comfort of your own home! Among the many are @migrationology , which focuses on the best local foods, and @adventurouskate , who shares her life and experiences as a well-known traveler and blogger. You can follow these users, as they offer a sneak peek into their lives and adventures around the world. If you want even more travelers to follow check out the Definitive List of Travelers on Snapchat . Along with these users, you can also check out National Geographic on Snapchat’s Discover page to read a wide variety of stories and watch different videos and interviews.

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While we can’t always travel the world and the seven seas, we’ve found that Snapchat is a great alternative to traveling (since it’s about as close as we can get to teleportation) and could be the next best thing when it comes to temporarily fulfilling your wanderlust. And if they aren’t already, Snapchat and its features could become virtual forms of group and educational travel, as you join millions of users in exploring the world and in learning more about local sights that could become the basis for the itinerary of your next trip. So while we don’t always have the time or the money to travel, we at WeTravel will just continue to travel vicariously through Snapchat.

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105 Best Things to Post on Snapchat Story Questions and Ideas in 2024

We’re diving into the future of Snapchat and things to post on Snapchat story questions!

As we embark on 2024, we’ve got you covered with 105 fresh, engaging, and creative ideas for your Snapchat stories.

Whether you’re sharing personal moments, travel adventures, foodie delights, fitness tips, or seasonal snaps, we’re here to inspire and elevate your Snapchat game.

Let’s explore, interact, and inspire together with our curated list of the best things to post on Snapchat in 2024!

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105 Best Snapchat Story Questions to Put on Snapchat Question Stickers

Personal life snapchat question ideas.

What personal moments should we share on Snapchat to give our followers a peek into our day-to-day lives?

It’s not just about posting anything ; it’s about engaging our Snapchat friends with captivating snapchat stories.

We’ve got some personal life snap ideas to spark your creativity. Consider posing fun questions about your daily activities or experiences.

You can ask your friends questions like “Guess where I am?”,”What’s my favorite breakfast?”, or even “Ask us anything you want to know” can be intriguing story questions to ask on your snap story.

They not only engage your followers but also let them into your world. With 238 million daily active users, you can choose whatever you want your audience to respond to.

Just be sure to monitor your inbox up to 24 hours after posting so you can keep up with your questions. 

Travel-Related Story Posts

During our travels, we often come across breathtaking locales and unforgettable experiences that make for fantastic Snapchat story posts.

The Snapchat app lets us share these adventures, but how should we use Snapchat to its fullest potential? First you need to download the app!

Here’s where the Snapchat story game comes in. It’s about asking the right Snapchat question – this engages your friends and gets them interested in your journey.

Access your snapchat account by logging in, snap a captivating photo, use Snapchat’s native in-app editor to add text and ask a question on Snapchat.

Questions can be about guessing the location, the history of a monument, or anything that piques curiosity.

This way, you’re not just posting things on Snapchat story, but also engaging your friends in a fun and interactive way.

Ask a Question on Snapchat About Food

After exploring the world through travel snaps, let’s shift our attention to a topic we all love – food.

Foodie snaps inspiration is a powerful tool in the snapchat game.

We all love the sight of mouth-watering dishes, and sharing them can stimulate a lively exchange of best snapchat story questions.

We suggest you snap your new product line or a favorite dish, then ask a question to your followers. Adding a sticker to your story can make it more interactive.

Questions like ‘Guess the secret ingredient?’ or ‘What would you pair this dish with?’ are great questions to get conversations started.

Fitness Motivation Stories

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We’ve all got those days when our motivation to hit the gym is at an all-time low, and that’s when fitness motivation stories come in handy.

Posting these stories is one of the best things to post on Snapchat in 2024.

They not only inspire us but also keep your followers engaged. Make your new story relatable, maybe share your personal fitness journey or ask specific questions related to health and fitness.

These snapchat story questions get your active users involved and spark conversations.

Educational Snapchat Content

Next up, let’s dive into another engaging type of content – educational Snapchat stories.

Using your Snapchat to share knowledge is a fantastic way to engage your audience.

Educational Snapchat content can be anything from a standard story explaining a complex topic to Q&As where your followers have the ability to ask questions.

By doing ‘Ask Us Anything’ or ‘Ask Me Anything’ snapchats, you open up a dialogue with your audience, making learning interactive and fun.

The key to successful educational content is to make it engaging and easy to understand.

Remember, questions on Snapchat can be answered in your own unique style, making your educational content not just informative, but also a reflection of your personality.

Beauty and Fashion Posts

Shifting our focus from educational content, let’s now explore the realm of beauty and fashion posts on Snapchat.

Snapchat is still a fantastic platform for beauty and fashion posts. It’s interactive, engaging, and a great way to engage with your audience.

You can easily add text to an image or video using the in-app editor, making it more engaging.

Here are some ideas:

  • Use question stickers : This is a great way to get your audience to respond. Ask them their opinions on different styles or beauty products.
  • Showcase online shopping: Many users prefer to shop online. Show them your favorite online shops or share discount codes.
  • Get users to post their own beauty and fashion snaps : Encourage them to share their own style, creating a community of fashion lovers.

Pet-Focused Snapchat Ideas

Diving into a cuter side of Snapchat, let’s explore some adorable pet-focused post ideas that can add a dash of furry charm to our stories.

Start by selecting a charming image you’ll use of your fluffy friend.

Next, access the features on Snapchat that allow for questions or submit a list of questions about your pet using the YOLO app.

This application lets your followers send an anonymous message, adding a fun, interactive element to your story.

Swipe to the bottom right corner of the screen to find the YOLO option.

With these pet-focused Snapchat ideas, we’re not just sharing cute snapshots, but also engaging our audience in a new, innovative way.

Creative Artistic Snaps

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Keeping the interactive element alive, let’s venture into the realm of Creative Artistic Snaps, a haven for those of us with a knack for aesthetics and creativity on Snapchat.

Unlike platforms like TikTok and Instagram, Snapchat offers an appealing standalone feature, the native in-app editor.

This tool broadens the scope for creating artistic snaps, currently popular among daily active users.

  • Try the one shopping rule: Keep it simple. Select a single object in the right corner, then experiment with filters and texts.
  • Use Snapchat story questions to engage your audience. Mystery and intrigue spark interaction.
  • Lastly, don’t shy from showcasing your unique style. Break the mold.

Musical Snapchat Posts

Let’s tune into the captivating world of Musical Snapchat Posts, where we can groove to the beats and create entertaining content.

Everyone knows TikTok, this prevalent option has taken center stage this year, with millions daily active on Snapchat.

It’s a platform where the average user spends significant time engaging in musical posts, either online or in a physical setting.

Musical Snapchat posts have become a unique selling point for clients, as they offer interactive game questions that spark user interest.

They’re also a formidable competitor to TikTok and Instagram, platforms known for their musical content.

However, the ephemeral nature of Snapchat, where posts disappear hours after posting, adds a layer of excitement and urgency that keeps users hooked.

It’s no wonder why it’s such a hit!

Sports-Related Snap Ideas

Shifting our focus to the exhilarating realm of sports, we’ve noticed a surge in sports-related snap ideas that are proving to be a real game-changer in the social media landscape.

It’s not just about logging in with your snap and sharing your game day outfit anymore. It’s about creating an engaging dialogue with your audience. Here are a few ideas:

  • Prompt them to ask a sports-related question. This could be anything you want your audience to engage with. You might even ask something like, ‘What would you like to know about my favorite team?’
  • Use a third-party tool to collect comments in your own stories. This can spark conversation and make your followers feel more involved.
  • Ask if they’re happy with the question or if they want to ask something else. This keeps the conversation going and shows you value their input.

Snapchat Challenge Ideas

We’re diving into the exciting world of Snapchat challenge ideas next. Taking center stage this year are third-party challenges, which millennials find always fun. 

This is great if you want to have more than just the basic, “ask us anything you want” or the general “questions?”.

They either ask friends to submit anonymous responses or send an anonymous challenge to others. It’s a thrilling way of engaging with your audience.

For touch device users, challenges that involve explore by touch are gaining popularity. Try a scavenger hunt or a guessing game using touch-based clues.

It’s a unique, interactive way to engage users in a way they haven’t experienced before.

To see more ideas, we suggest scouting popular Snapchat users or even using third-party apps for inspiration.

Remember, Snapchat is a platform for creativity and fun, so let your imagination run wild.

Celebrity Impersonation Snaps

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Another exciting trend we’ve noticed is the rise of celebrity impersonation snaps on Snapchat. These snaps offer a blend of humor and creativity, attracting millions of views.

Though some platforms require you to download additional software, Snapchat simplifies the process. Here’s how:

  • Keep an eye on your inbox : Celebrities often share snaps impersonating others. Be sure to check out their snaps for inspiration.
  • Practice : The key to a successful impersonation is practice. It’s not just about the looks, pay attention to their catchphrases and mannerisms.
  • Share : Once you’re confident, share your snap. Your friends and followers will be thrilled.

Book Recommendation Stories

Let’s dive into the trend of sharing Book Recommendation Stories on Snapchat, a great way to engage followers and spread the love of reading.

We’re seeing an uptick in users sharing their current reads, favorite books , or hidden gems. It’s a fantastic way to connect on a deeper level and inspire curiosity.

In our analysis, we’ve found that successful Book Recommendation Stories often include a brief summary, personal insights, and why followers might enjoy the book.

Remember, it’s not just about sharing a title, it’s about creating a conversation. The key is to spark interest, evoke emotions, and leave your audience wanting to know more.

Movie Review Snapchat Question Stickers

Just as we’ve explored sharing our favorite books, now it’s time to dive into the exciting world of Movie Review Snapchat Stories, a trend that’s been capturing attention in no small measure.

This innovative approach combines our love for movies with the brevity and immediacy of Snapchat, creating a unique platform for movie enthusiasts.

Here are some ideas to get you started if you want to keep it simple:

  • Share a quick review of the latest blockbuster, expressing your opinion in a concise yet engaging manner.
  • Post behind-the-scenes snaps from your favorite films, adding interesting trivia or a personal anecdote.
  • Create a fun movie quiz or poll, encouraging your followers to engage and share their views too.

Remember, the key is to keep it short, engaging, and most importantly, authentic.

Happy snapping!

DIY and Craft Snapchat Posts

Moving on to our next exciting category, we’ve got ten brilliant ideas for DIY and Craft Snapchat posts.

First, we propose a ‘step by step’ crafting tutorial, showing the progression from raw materials to finished product.

For a twist, try a ‘craft fail’ post, where we highlight the funnier side of DIY mistakes.

Next, consider a ‘craft supply haul’ or ‘workspace tour’ to engage your audience in your creative process.

Another idea is ‘before and after’ transformations of thrift store finds or you can even tell your viewers to ‘be sure to ask me anything about this craft’.

Lastly, ‘time-lapse’ videos of complex projects can be mesmerizing and satisfying to watch.

Business Promotion Snaps

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Diving into our next category, we’ve got five top-notch strategies for Business Promotion Snaps that’ll really make your brand shine on Snapchat.

Firstly, we suggest using behind-the-scenes content. Show your clients’ where the magic happens. It’s not only intriguing, but it also makes your business more relatable.

Secondly, consider offering exclusive deals or discounts. This instantly grabs attention and encourages brand engagement.

Lastly, incorporate user-generated content. It’s a smart way to build a community around your brand and show appreciation for your customers.

These strategies aren’t just about selling. They’re about creating meaningful connections with your audience, making them feel valued and part of your brand’s story.

Now, let’s snap to it!

Hobbies Showcasing Stories

Switching gears from business promotion, let’s delve into how you can creatively use Snapchat to showcase your hobbies.

We’ve observed a spike in users sharing their passions, from painting to drone racing and everything in between.

It’s a fantastic way to engage with your friends, followers, or even potential new hobby enthusiasts.

We recommend using Snapchat’s features to their full potential. For instance, time-lapse can exhibit the progression of a painting, while filters can add an artistic flair to a baking session.

Utilize the Q&A feature to interact with your audience, answering questions or sharing tips about your hobby.

Showcasing your hobbies isn’t only entertaining, but it also adds a personal touch to your Snapchat story, making your content more relatable and engaging.

Quirky Holiday Snaps

Let’s kick off with quirky holiday snaps, a fun-filled way to spice up our Snapchat stories and keep our followers entertained and engaged.

They’re not just photos; they’re memories we’re creating. But, let’s be innovative and go beyond the usual.

Here’s what we suggest:

  • Festive Food Fails : Tried making a gingerbread house that collapsed? Share it! It’s relatable and adds a sprinkle of humor.
  • Holiday Decor Disasters : That tangled ball of Christmas lights can tell a compelling story about the struggle that’s holiday setup.
  • Unusual Traditions : Every family has its unique holiday quirks. Why not share yours?

Party and Event Snaps

Moving on to party and event snaps, we’re about to delve into one of the most vibrant aspects of Snapchat storytelling.

These snaps capture the essence of celebration, showcasing life’s jubilant moments.

We’ve analyzed trends and discovered that snaps which are both personal and inclusive yield the most engagement.

So, don’t just snap the party’s centerpiece, include your friends’ reactions too. It’s equally important to use Snapchat’s unique tools to add context.

Use geotags to show the event location, filters to set the mood, and captions to provide insight.

Remember, your Snapchat story isn’t just for you, it’s a shared experience. Make it engaging, fun, vibrant, and most importantly, make it a story worth telling.

In 2024, it’s all about creating moments that resonate with your audience.

Use Snapchat to Ask a Question on Local Exploration

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Next up, we’re diving into five standout ideas for Snapchat stories focused on local exploration.

  • Hidden Gems : Seek out little-known spots in your town or city and share them with your followers. They’ll love the insider scoop!
  • Foodie Finds : Every place has unique eateries or dishes. Let your followers live vicariously through your food adventures.
  • Historical Highlights : Share the history that’s right under your nose. Visit local landmarks and tell their stories.

These ideas won’t only make your Snapchat stories engaging, but they’ll also help your followers discover new aspects of your locale.

Snapchat Story Game Ideas

Diving right into the realm of Snapchat game ideas, we’ve got some exciting concepts that’ll keep your followers hooked and engaged.

Consider a trivia challenge, where you post questions about popular culture, sports, or even your personal life. Followers who answer correctly could get a shout-out in your next story.

We’re also fans of scavenger hunts. You can post a list of items or tasks and followers submit snaps as they find or complete them.

Another great idea is a ‘caption this’ game. Post a funny or unusual snap and ask your followers to suggest captions. The best one wins!

These Snapchat game ideas aren’t just fun; they also encourage interaction and deepen connections.

Try them out and watch your engagement soar!

Interactive Q&A Snaps

After exploring Snapchat game ideas, we’re now heading into the territory of interactive Q&A snaps, a surefire way to boost engagement on your Snapchat story.

This interactive format allows your followers to engage directly with your content, providing a platform for instant feedback and conversation.

To make the most out of this feature, consider these tips:

  • Ask Open-Ended Questions : This encourages thoughtful responses and deeper engagement.
  • Utilize Polls : These can generate instant feedback and start lively debates.
  • Provide a Q&A Box : This allows followers to ask their own questions, fostering a two-way interaction.

Inspirational Quote Posts to Use on Snapchat

Shifting our focus from interactive Q&A snaps, let’s delve into the potential of our Snapchat stories with inspirational quote posts.

These quotes can be a powerful tool to add depth and meaning to our daily shares. They can provoke thought, offer comfort, or even spur action among our followers.

Choosing the right quote is crucial. We must pick one that resonates with us personally, but also aligns with our audience’s sentiments.

And remember, context matters! We can utilize the visual elements of Snapchat to complement the quote and amplify its impact.

Inspirational quote posts aren’t just about sharing profound words. They’re about engaging with our audience, sparking conversations, and creating a lasting impact.

Let’s inspire and be inspired with our snaps!

Behind the Scenes Questions on Snapchat

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Moving on from our insightful quote posts, let’s use our Snapchat stories to offer followers a sneak peek into our world with captivating ‘Behind the Scenes’ snaps. These real, raw glimpses into our daily life or work process can foster a deeper connection with our followers. They make our stories more personal, authentic, and engaging.

Here are three ways to create compelling ‘Behind the Scenes’ snaps:

  • Show how we create a product or service. This can enhance transparency and trust.
  • Share snippets of our work environment. It helps humanize our brand.
  • Highlight our team and their roles. It fosters a sense of community and inclusivity.

Season-Related Questions to Ask on Snapchat Stories

Beyond sharing our everyday lives and work processes, we can also use Snapchat stories to celebrate the changing seasons.

It’s a fantastic way to engage followers, showcasing the beauty and uniqueness of each season.

Winter could bring snaps of snowflakes, hot chocolate, cozy fireplaces, while spring might show blooming flowers and refreshing rain showers.

Summer stories can sizzle with beach adventures, pool parties, and sunsets. Autumn snaps could feature colorful foliage, pumpkin carvings, and Halloween costumes .

Season-related content not only adds variety to our stories, it also creates a sense of connectivity with followers experiencing similar changes.

So, let’s embrace the seasons, capturing their essence in our snaps, and sharing the joy they bring. Ask Snapchat stories questions and interact with your followers and have fun!

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Choosing the Best Snapchat Story Questions

So, there you have it, folks! 105 innovative Snapchat story ideas that’ll keep your posts fresh and engaging in 2024.

Whether you’re sharing your personal life, travel adventures, foodie finds, fitness feats, educational insights, interactive Q&As, inspirational quotes, behind-the-scenes glimpses, or season-related stories, our suggestions will help you stand out.

Remember, Snapchat is all about spontaneity and authenticity. So, get snapping and let your unique personality shine!

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Using Instagram Stories for Travel Bloggers & Travel Writers

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If your social media life wasn’t confusing and time consuming enough, Instagram has stolen the basic premise for “Stories” from Snapchat. On August 2, Stories was rolled out. Instead of posting carefully chosen photos, Stories lets you post a bunch of photos or short videos throughout the day. At the end of 24 hours, those photos disappear (just like Snapchat). Here are the basics for using Instagram Stories for travel bloggers & travel writers.

The Basics: Instagram Stories for Travel Bloggers

Making stories is a lot like snapchat.

Stories are videos or photos that are strung together to form a gallery that are meant to tell a story, but will disappear in 24 hours.

Here’s how to create a Story:

  • Tap on the home button on the lower left of your screen.
  • Tap on the plus button found on the top left-hand side of the homescreen. You can also get to the Stories recording screen by swiping right when on the homescreen.
  • Tap the circle button at the bottom of the screen to take photos or tap and hold to record a video.
  • Edit the photos or videos with text or add a drawing. If you hit the pen icon, there are three types of pens. The third one makes your sketch look like a neon sign.
  • Tap Done to save your Story.

Want to add more than one photo or video to your story so that it plays like a slideshow? Just keep repeating the steps. Each photo you add using the steps will be placed in your story.

The photos and video you chose for your Story will now be a series that people can swipe through for 24 hours. A colorful circle will appear around your profile photo to let your followers know you have a Story for them to view and your profile picture will also pop up at the top of your followers’ Feeds. All they need to do is tap on your face to see your Story.

If you have a habit of adding things to your social-media accounts that you later regret, good news! Stories can be removed. Tap on the three dots at the bottom right of the photo or video you’d like to delete, hit Delete and then confirm.

You can upload photos, Downloaded Snaps and Boomerangs

Use your saved snaps from Snapchat as Stories. After you take a snap, tap the Download button . It will save to your camera roll. Then, open Instagram, start a story and swipe down . Any photo you shot (or Boomerang you made) in the last 24 hours can be uploaded to your Story. A gallery with all of your recent photos will pop up. Tap on your snap and post as usual. You can only use photos that you’ve added to your camera roll in the last 24 hours.

  • Related Post: In my recent interview with Caitlin O’Neil we chatted about SnapChat and Instgram Stories! Click here for the blog post http://bit.ly/2aT6IGA and here for the audio interview  http://bit.ly/2bgzrkG . 

After shooting a photo or video, swipe across the screen for the filters to appear. There are seven filters right now.

Add stripes and polka dots for more photo fun

Tap on the Drawing Tool , tap on the pointed marker on the left at the top of the screen , choose your color and tap on the three-dots button on the bottom left side of the screen. With your finger, pull the the line that appears upward toward the top of the screen. This will make your marker huge. Now to make polka dots, just tap your finger on the photo wherever you want them to appear. Hold your finger on the screen to make an even bigger dot.

To make stripes, go through the same steps, but choose the angled marker instead of the pointed marker. Then just tap the screen. Perfect little stripes will appear on your photo.

Add thought bubbles

Some Instagramers are using the polka dots trick to make thought bubbles on their photos. You can do this by creating a large polka dot above the person in the photo and then creating several smaller dots that trail down below the thought bubble. You can fill in the thought bubble using emojis or text.

Flipping through Stories is pretty easy

Searching for a particular accounts Story isn’t possible, but navigating through Stories is super easy. While browsing the Stories of your friends, swipe right to go to the previous one, left to go to the next one and tap to skip a photo or video.

If you want to linger on one photo, you can pause a story by tapping and holding your finger on the photo. To start the story again, just lift your finger. This also works for video. If you hold your finger too long on a video it will stay paused, even when you lift your finger. To start the video again slide your finger back and forth in short strokes across the screen.

Hiding Stories from Selected People

You can choose who gets to see your Stories and who doesn’t. Want to prevent specific people from seeing particular stories? Go to your profile and tap the sun symbol (iOS) or the three dots (Android) in the top right of the screen. Choose Story Settings from the menu and then tap on Hide My Story From . Select your who you want from the list and tap Done . They will still be able to see your posts and profile, but won’t see your Story.

You can’t comment on Stories, but you can message

You can send a message to your friend directly from that person’s Story. At the bottom left-hand corner of the screen you’ll see Send Message . Tap on it and type out what you would like to say and hit Send . This only works for people who have comments enabled, though.

Story Setting (Everyone or Friends)

Go to your profile and tap the sun symbol (iOS) or the three dots (Android) in the top right of the screen. In Story Settings , select an option from the list. You can choose Everyone , which will let everyone comment, People You Follow to let just those you follow comment and Off to prevent anyone from commenting.

Save your Stories from disappearing

If you don’t want your Story to disappear forever you can download it to your phone (similar to Snapchat). Open your Story and tap on the three dots on the bottom right of the photo or video. Then, tap Save Photo.

Share your Story as a Post

You can add saved Stories to your profile grid. Open your Story, tap the three dots at the bottom right of the photo or video and tap Share as Post . You can then add filters, captions and locations to jazz it up a little. Once you’re done, tap Share .

The photo or video will appear in your profile grid. Just beware, whoever can see your profile grid will be able to see the photo or video. It will no longer have special protections that you can add to Stories.

Story followers (whose giving you the IG love!)

Curious to see who’s looking at your story? Open your story and swipe up on the screen. At the bottom of the screen will be a view counter and the names of the people who viewed your Story. Shy about your numbers? Don’t be. Only you can see this information.

If there’s someone viewing your Story and you decide you don’t want that person to see it, just tap the three dots beside the person’s name and select Hide Story From [username].

What’s Coming Next?

If you remember the first version of Snapchat Stories, it didn’t have all the crazy stickers, geofilters and lenses you’re so used to today. I doubt Instagram will keep things as is, so expect more features to be added soon.

Next up is a piece on Instagram Story Strategy for Travel Bloggers. Stay tuned! 

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Every villain gets an origin story, but in the case of Thea, the wedding guest from hell in Helen Oyeyemi’s newest novel, “Parasol Against the Axe,” her own mother wrote it. The book flashes back to Prague, in the nineteen-eighties, when Dagmar Dlouhá, Thea’s mother, penned a series of popular children’s books starring her daughter—or rather, a fully actualized Eastern Bloc version of Thea, capable of climbing mountains and cycling the Alps while her counterparts in the West sold Girl Scout cookies that they didn’t even bake. No, storybook Thea would boil the Czech knedlíky herself. In one book, she and a boy named Li Jie get into a friendly debate over the merits of the Czech dumplings versus those of Chinese jiaozi . As per the genre conventions of socialist realism, Thea and Li seize the means of dough production, each taking command of a dumpling factory to pump out their own national variant for a taste-testing contest. Eventually, they reach a détente, arriving at the happy—and politically correct—realization that with such a bounty of boiled meat for all to stuff themselves with, there is no need, or room left, for competition. After the real Thea emigrated to the U.S., other kids taunted her with a catchphrase from the story, “Don’t thank me—thank Progress! It’s UNSTOPPABLE .” As an adult, Thea processes her childhood trauma by barring her friends from moving forward, down the aisle or elsewhere, as if progress were her Cold War nemesis or romantic rival.

You might say Oyeyemi is a collector of stories that follow children, especially girls, into adulthood. Born in Nigeria in 1984 and raised in London, she is best known for spinning classical fairy tales into new forms, not to clumsily revise their politics in the way of the who-asked-for-this Disney reboots but to use make-believe to defamiliarize all that we have been made to believe. Her fourth novel, “ Mr. Fox ,” from 2011, based on the British folktale of the same name, was a Bluebeard story about a novelist who keeps gruesomely killing his heroines until one of them comes to life to stop the massacre. Three years later, Oyeyemi followed “Mr. Fox” with “ Boy, Snow, Bird ,” a loose retelling of “Snow White,” where magical mirrors play tricks on a family of fair-skinned African Americans passing as white in nineteen-fifties Massachusetts. In 2019, she released “ Gingerbread ,” in which she updated “Hansel and Gretel” for the Brexit era. Oyeyemi’s version of the tale revolves around an “alleged nation state” called Druhástrana (Czech for “the other side”) where children inside a gingerbread house are not to be eaten but exploited, starved of the fruits of their labor. Meanwhile, nostalgic royal-watchers long for a fictional past and polish one of the country’s key landmarks—a single large shoe—in hopes that “a giant Cinderella” will return to claim it.

Oyeyemi’s next novel, “ Peaces ” published in 2021, felt like a departure, and not just because it was set on a train. That book was less fairy tale, more millennial breakup fable, where the ones we’ve ghosted quite literally haunt us and our happily ever afters. The past also comes back to terrorize the smugly coupled in “Parasol Against the Axe,” the first of Oyeyemi’s novels set in the Central European city she has called home since 2013. Oyeyemi told me she was hesitant to set a novel in Prague, citing the “excellent body of work” already devoted to the place. As a cultural capital, Prague existed in the shadows of modernist Paris and Barcelona, but a touch of darkness has been its ace. Under Communism, Czech literature became increasingly known for its black humor, for satirist-dissidents such as Ivan Klima and Václav Havel , and for tipsy readings of samizdat literature at the pub. Though she may not belong by birth, Oyeyemi—whose sense of humor is more wicked than her reputation as a reteller of fairy stories would suggest—fits in, like a scullery maid who becomes the belle of the ball.

“Parasol Against the Axe” begins with Hero Tojosoa, a self-described “ex-journalist” from Dublin, arriving in the storied city. She’s ostensibly there to attend her old friend Sofie’s bachelorette party. In reality, she’s running from the mail. The subject of an exposé she published killed himself, but not before arranging for a letter to be sent to Hero after his death. For the journey, Hero has packed a copy of “Paradoxical Undressing,” a novel written in the early nineteen-nineties, following the Velvet Revolution. That book, another of Oyeyemi’s meta-textual inventions, reflects the contradictions of a country teetering between Communism and a market economy. You might be able to mass-produce the book’s outer binding, but the pages inside it resist commodification. That’s because no two readings of “Paradoxical Undressing” are alike. Everyone’s version of it is uniquely their own. The same could be said of Prague, and, indeed, of marriage. This is, after all, a novel about getting hitched. Just one hitch: Thea. Sofie and Hero’s old roommate is not about to let a couple of “I do”s close the book on their (mostly platonic) threesome. Franz Kafka said of his home town, “Prague doesn’t let go. This little mother has claws.” As with old cities, so too with old flames.

I talked to Oyeyemi over Zoom about her new novel, the novel within it, and how she knew Prague was the one after a string of dates with other cities. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Your background is blurred so I can’t do that New Yorker interview move of making pithy observations about your surroundings.

Tell everyone I’m coming to you from the void.

It’s funny, because I’m going to ask you a lot of questions about place and the slipperiness of it in your work. I’m assuming that you’re coming to me from Prague, but I don’t actually know for sure.

I’m in a small flat on the riverside in Prague.

Your new novel is set in Prague, where—if the Internet is to be trusted—you’ve been living since 2014.

2013, actually. 2013 was the second time that I moved here. I lived in Prague in 2009, and I liked it so much I felt delusional. So I dated other cities, on my friends’ advice. Then I came back for good in 2013.

So is there something about Central Europe that you’re drawn to?

No, not necessarily. If I could live anywhere, it’d be Seoul. Every time I visit Seoul, it’s different. I remember the first time that I went there; it was because my book had been translated into Korean. There’s a replica of the Prague Astronomical Clock there. It felt like a blessing from Prague, like the places that I love were connected in some way, by some rubric that I am not aware of yet.

I’m hoping we can talk a bit about Prague as part of the former Eastern Bloc, which you raise in the novel. My background is in Slavic languages and literature. I loved the reference to Pushkin and “ Peter the Great’s African ” in “Boy, Snow, Bird,” by the way.

How did you fall into Slavic languages?

Oh, completely by accident. I wanted to study literature, but I was interested in politics, too. I was eighteen and I wanted to make a difference in the world. Then I saw this class called “Literature and Revolution,” and I hoped it might resolve some of these questions for me. I didn’t realize it was Russian literature. Most of the students, it turned out, were heritage speakers. When I first arrived in the class, I was, like, “Who are all these radical blondes?” Russians.

[ Laughs .] Radical blondes. I love it. Did it satisfy your craving for revolution?

I don’t know. It showed me the flip side of what happens when people take literature’s capabilities too seriously. Russia’s a place where they killed their poets.

So your new novel is set in Prague, and all the characters are reading a novel called “Paradoxical Undressing,” which is set in Prague as well. And yet, there seems to be some tension in the story about what a “Prague book” is; even that term is used flippantly within the novel to describe “Paradoxical Undressing.” What would you say is your relationship to place and place writing? Are you uneasy about attaching stories to fixed localities?

I am uneasy about it. Once you start trying to nail down a place is when it begins to elude you. That’s especially the case with Prague. It’s hard to know what you’re talking about when you talk about Prague. Which Prague? Which aspect of it do you mean? When people talk about London, too, I don’t know which London they’re talking about. I know my very specific South London context, like the streets of Deptford. When I went to school in Holland Park, I would get on the Tube for forty-five minutes, and it felt like I had travelled across the world. It’s tricky to talk about a place. There is always some element of deception involved with trying to represent a place, and I wanted to be upfront about that in the text.

There’s a funny scene early in “Parasol Against the Axe” when Sofie’s fiancée, Polly, picks Hero up from the airport, dramatically intent on showing her “the real Prague.” She proposes taking Hero to a gas station on the outskirts of the city to drink Brazilian coffee. So you’re not necessarily buying into this idea of the real Prague over the not-real Prague. I think you’re saying, All these Pragues are real.

Yeah, I think that’s a completely false dichotomy. Real and pretend are the same thing at different times. This is part of what I love about fiction and the reading of fiction. It’s allowed me to discern different types of imaginary. Even when it comes to media and political processes, it’s not a question of what is imaginary and what is not: it’s just a case of whose imagination is at work here. What is being acted on and who is being acted on? Who’s being shaped in this kind of delusory crucible? It’s a constant process that only fiction observes and embraces. That’s why I exaggerate so much in my fiction. Whatever can happen does happen. I’m delighted by letting the story run away with itself in that way.

As you were talking, I was thinking of a friend of mine from India who bristles when Westerners complain about other Westerners going to India for luxury yoga retreats because that’s not “the real India.” He’s, like, “No, that’s also India. That’s part of it, too.”

We’re talking about literature that isn’t tied down to one particular place, that’s of many places. I’m curious how much you were thinking about the circulation of literature during the Cold War, because the tradition of tamizdat—literature smuggled abroad to be published—comes up at one point in the novel.

There was an artistic movement toward what people would call inner emigration. The lines along which a lot of art of that period went was, like, “I cannot go anywhere physically, so my mind has to go. [ Laughs. ] My mind has to invent new countries that exist in the name of existing countries.” Just inventing and reinventing what already exists and inventing and reinventing selves that are not physically free. It’s something that moves me. It’s something that I follow, as in spread.

“Paradoxical Undressing” is different for each person who picks it up, and it also changes each time a person picks it up. We’re treated to the main frame story and then to all these ones within, different stories set in Prague over the span of some four hundred years, from Cold War spy thrillers to a medieval B.D.S.M. love triangle.

I love hearing it described that way. First time.

Oh, I love that story. Is each character getting the book they want or the book they need? Or is that completely irrelevant? Do the stories that come to us not care if we need or want them?

No, the book is responding to who the characters are. I don’t think that Hero could ever read a version that would be in any way analogous to the version that Thea reads. It’s very much tailored to the individual, and maybe that’s what Prague does, too. It finds a way to speak to you in your particular language, meeting you exactly where you are at that time, to tell you that it’s not going to give you what you want. That’s how it is—it goes all the way through space and time to come up to you and just say no, which is what everybody who’s tried to take control of Prague has eventually figured out. It’s not malevolent. It’s more, like, “I can’t be who you’re telling me to be, so what are we going to do here?” That’s the thing with Prague and that’s the thing with “Paradoxical Undressing.” It’s meant to say, “I don’t know what you are expecting from a novel, but this is the novel that is here for you right now.”

I’m thinking about the moment when Sofie’s mother is relaying the plot of “Paradoxical Undressing.” In her version, the main character is a disinformation agent. But since that doesn’t happen in anyone else’s “Paradoxical Undressing,” she gets called out—essentially for being a disinformation agent.

But a novel-within-a-novel feels of a piece with the voracious appetite for story I see across your writing. You seem to be looking for ways to fit in as many stories as possible into a single one. In “Mr. Fox,” for example, the character Mary Fox is a muse whom the novelist Mr. Fox has invented in his mind, and yet, she has a rich life of her own. She even has dreams. In one of the dreams, she writes romance novels under the pen name Wendy Darling. I started doing the math, adding up the guises, and I realized that you have a fictional fictional character, dreaming of a fictional version of herself who writes novels using a name taken from a different fictional character. What interests you about this layering of artifice, these stories upon stories upon stories?

I don’t know if this is going to change, because I can actually feel my writing changing; it’s almost like being a teen-ager and feeling your bones getting longer. But all of my stories so far are about stories, because I want to know what they are. Sometimes I lean toward the idea that language is a virus—if you put down a few words, they turn into something else and turn into something else and turn into something else. If you leave that unchecked, you have maximum story. Are stories self-generated? What actually are stories? In a way, I try to provoke stories and get them to show us what they are and what they mean. Do they mean to harm us? Are they vehicles for revolution? Can they heal us of all the things that make us sad and sick? Do they actually just want to make us crazy? Do they want to deceive and delete us?

Sometimes when I read other writers, particularly Rachel Cusk, I’m struck by how their books have internal engines. Cusk shows how stories gather weight and mass and cannot be rolled back. Her stories are almost a clinical observation of that process. I feel such envy because I can’t observe that way in my own work. I’m just in it. [ Laughs. ] I let it get out of hand. I’m complicit.

I notice a lot of your characters are journalists. Hero is a journalist. And, in “Boy, Snow, Bird,” Mia, the reporter, compares journalism to working in a pawn shop: “It’s more like my mind’s stacked with all these incongruous items, other people’s stories that I’ve been telling pieces of. And the people don’t come back for their stories, but that doesn’t make them mine.” So even when your characters don’t write fiction, they still tend to be looking for stories to get out of people.

Well, it’s slightly malicious because journalistic authority has a higher status than that of fiction. I like to drag journalists into the story and make them see what fiction can do. I’m trying to level the playing field.

What can fiction do that journalism can’t?

I think it can reconcile diametrical opposites in a way that nonfiction can’t, because what has happened is just what happened. Fiction is on an axis where you are looking at what has happened, what may happen, what cannot happen yet does happen. You have more of a spinning globe. Now I’m becoming quite mystical.

Do you ever get lost in your own novels? With Mr. Fox, there were a few times where I thought, “Wait, are we still in the frame story?” When Hero gets lost in Prague, it felt like a commentary on what you like to do in your stories, as well: disorient us.

I’m glad you picked up on that. Yes, I do get lost, and that’s when I feel happy. I’m like, “Oh, good, the fictioning has really begun.” If I have one goal as a writer, it’s to make sentences that move at the speed of thought. We free-associate all the time between everything. We’re in one place, then we’re in another, and then we’re here. I just want to course through every conceivable construct. So when, at a certain point, you do stop and think, Where am I?, that for me is it !

The connection to travel is interesting because people often talk about how much they enjoy getting lost in a city. It’s the only thing we really say that about, but you’re right—we also can enjoy getting lost in a book.

I enjoy getting lost in your books.

Thank you, Jennifer.

At one point, Hero loses her copy of “Paradoxical Undressing.” So she goes to the Clementinum, a library in Prague. It’s a place that she says she has visited sixteen times previously, but she means through fiction, through Borges’s story “The Secret Miracle,” in which a character goes blind looking through all the pages of all the books in the Clementinum in search of a secret letter from God. While Hero is there, the librarian picks up a copy of “Paradoxical Undressing” and reads it out loud. His version of the novel sounds like a missing chapter from Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities.” Kublai Khan arrives in a city, Prague, “where no such city ought to have been.” He asks the people there, “Is this still the East?” In this scene, two influences, Borges and Calvino, converge. Could you say more about how they’ve shaped your work?

Calvino is probably the most seductive writer for me. I begin each of his books thinking, No, I don’t think so—I don’t think I’m going to get involved with this. Then I’m slowly, slowly drawn in. Maybe I summoned his powers with this particular book because Prague did that to me. The first time I came, I didn’t like it. Then a year later, I just packed up all my stuff and moved there.

Borges is more like a friend. There’s something about him that accompanies you through every conceivable space and through every turn of the mind. That was another power that I wanted to call upon in my love letter to Prague. “Prague, I want to accompany you through every turn, through the four hundred years that you’ve already been through and all the years to come.” That kind of soppy, romantic stuff . . .

I can’t help but think about the letter that Hero is running away from. What does it mean to run away from a letter? What were you thinking when you constructed that frame as the reason she flees to Prague?

As a reader, if I sense that something is directed toward me or that I’m supposed to relate to it in a particular way, I automatically draw back. I feel instantly manipulated. If there’s a message, I’m, like, “Oh, no, no.” Hero is like that. I hope that people drawn to the novel and to Prague are like that. I need to be spoken to in symbols, or I need to be spoken to indirectly. Otherwise, I don’t like it. I took an indirect approach to writing about Prague because if someone said to me, “This love letter is to you. Read it,” it’s not going to get read.

No one wants that kind of love letter. Everyone wants some mystery. People like to decode text messages.

While writing, I was also thinking about Oscar Wilde’s “ De Profundis .” Can you imagine a letter like “De Profundis” being addressed to you? The guy that Oscar Wilde sent it to denied having received it. I felt like he denied receiving it because he had received it, read it, had been wrecked and ruined by this letter. [ Laughs. ] That was on my mind, the possibility that a letter could do that to you. If such a letter is addressed to you, you must not read it to save your own life.

One of my favorite lines in your work is in “Boy, Snow, Bird.” The character Bird fantasizes about selling food on the roadside to travellers. She thinks, “That’s the ideal meeting . . . once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.” It occurred to me that’s what happens when people read “Paradoxical Undressing.” It’s the first time every time. Do you mean to say something about our first encounters with books?

No, I think that only applies to people. It’s a great tragedy that we keep in touch so much. There are so many connections that shouldn’t last as long as they do. But, no, with books, I’m very much a rereader. I reread all the time. Books wait for you, and they blossom in the time between readings.

So we should reread more and stay in touch less?

Yeah. All the time that we spend maintaining these garbage connections should be used to reread.

That’s interesting, because the novel is precisely about a garbage connection that makes its way back even when it shouldn’t. Not everyone needs to be invited to your wedding.

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U.S. Warns Spring Breakers Headed to Mexico, Jamaica or the Bahamas

In recent weeks, American travelers to some of the busiest international destinations during spring vacation have been urged by the State Department to exercise extra caution.

A sunset over a calm harbor turns the water and the ski into hues of dark blue and black.

By Vjosa Isai

Don’t wander off the resort after dark. Keep the flashy clothing and jewelry to a minimum. Stay aware of your surroundings. Those are some of the travel rules that Ginger Moore, a retired logistics analyst from Panama City, Fla., adheres to on her solo trips throughout the Caribbean.

Ms. Moore, 75, has always felt safe during her stays in Jamaica, where she’s returning for the fourth time on Wednesday. But this year, while she’s still happy to take a trip, a travel advisory for Jamaica, reissued in January by the U.S. State Department, has elevated her concerns.

“I’m sure there are parts, just like the United States, that you can go into that are not recommended,” said Ms. Moore. Nonetheless, she has taken new precautions for her upcoming trip, like packing additional health supplies and purchasing a security bar for the sliding balcony door of her hotel room.

In recent weeks, the State Department and U.S. Embassies have issued new and updated advisories urging travelers to Mexico, Jamaica and the Bahamas — some of the busiest international spring break destinations — to exercise extra caution after recent violent events, some in tourist areas. Security experts suggest that the advice is largely consistent with advisories of previous years.

Caroline Hammer, a global security analyst at the risk intelligence company RANE , said tourists should interpret the advisories as warnings to exercise caution and avoid specific hot spots for crime, but not as a blanket rule to restrict their travel anywhere in the region.

What do the travel warnings say?

Warnings about spring break travel to certain parts of Mexico came in recent days, while the security alerts and updated travel advisories for Jamaica and the Bahamas were issued in late January.

The State Department has classified Jamaica at Level 3 since 2022, recommending visitors “ reconsider travel ” because of episodes of violent crime. The agency reissued the travel advisory in January to also alert tourists about access to medical services, and warned that “sexual assaults occur frequently, including at all-inclusive resorts.”

Kamina Johnson Smith, Jamaica’s foreign affairs and foreign trade minister, said in a statement published two days later that the country made “serious improvements” in responding to crime and in its health care infrastructure and disagreed with the scope of the advisory.

“The government of Jamaica is disappointed that the language used does not reflect our country’s significant progress,” she said.

Data from the Jamaican national police force shows that as of March 1, several crime categories, including murders, break-ins and rapes, had declined compared with the same period in 2023, though shootings and assault had risen.

In the Bahamas, gang violence and a number of murders prompted U.S. officials to urge tourists to “ exercise increased caution ,” especially in the cities of Nassau and Freeport. Recreational boat tours, jet ski rentals and other water activities are unevenly regulated, the advisory additionally notes, and have led to injuries and deaths.

In early February, two female travelers said their drinks had been spiked during a cruise stop in the Bahamas and accused resort staff of sexually assaulting them .

Last week, in a statement specifically discussing spring break travel, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico reiterated precautions outlined in a State Department travel advisory, last updated over the summer, issued because of crime and kidnappings. It reminded tourists to be cautious when visiting the downtown areas of Cancún, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, all in Quintana Roo State.

The advisory also recommends travel by toll road in daytime hours, and to remain near major cities, which have a heightened police presence and other emergency services.

What’s behind the warning in Mexico?

Organized crime groups in Mexico have largely kept violent activity outside resorts to avoid hurting the tourism industry, said Ms. Hammer, of RANE. The cartels, she said, depend on tourists themselves, by selling drugs to visitors and extorting local businesses, and it would generate a heightened response from the Mexican government.

In 2023, tourists spent close to $3.1 billion in Mexico, up 10 percent over 2022, according to data from the tourism ministry, with many travelers Cancún-bound.

A handful of violent episodes last year included the kidnappings of two Americans who had crossed the border near Brownsville, Texas, and were found dead, as well as heated disputes between rival taxi and Uber drivers in Cancún. The violence came on the heels of a number of gunfights and assassinations in late 2021 and early 2022 that rattled tourists along the Riviera Maya .

“The good news is that those incidents that have been reported inside of resorts are extremely, extremely rare,” Ms. Hammer said.

In its latest advisory, the State Department warns that shootings by rival gangs, “while not directed at tourists,” have caught some in the crossfire, even on resorts. Last month, an American woman was killed during a drug-related shooting in a beach club in Tulum. Prosecutors in Quintana Roo said she was a bystander.

Despite these incidents, the security picture in Mexico has generally remained unchanged, said Zachary Rabinor, the founder and president of Journey Mexico , a luxury travel company.

“A lot of this is kind of general, stereotypical fears,” he said, adding that tourists shouldn’t interpret violent episodes as sweeping events, especially in resort destinations most popular with visitors.

“There are definitely still areas that are troublesome, but in general, they are not where tourists are going,” Mr. Rabinor said.

What’s behind the warning for the Bahamas?

In January, the Bahamian prime minister, Philip Davis, shared his government’s plan to tamp down criminal activity after a spate of murders, mostly gang-related.

“If you choose crime, you will face the full weight and might of the law,” Mr. Davis said during a national address on Jan. 24. The admonishing tone was a sharp turn from a celebratory moment just a month earlier, when the Bahamian tourism ministry announced the country had hit a record of eight million travelers in 2023.

While the police grapple with crime off resorts, the Bahamian foreign affairs ministry said, in a statement published shortly after the U.S. Embassy alert, that the country does not believe that tourists are under any new “elevated or increased security risk.”

What can you do to stay safe?

Effective safety measures can be as simple as remaining vigilant, and planning ahead by purchasing travel insurance and updating emergency contact lists. Other general steps recommended in the advisories include avoiding walking or driving off the resort areas at night, avoiding public transit and heeding local laws.

High traveler volumes around spring break may make tourism police forces, in places where they have them, slower to respond to emergency calls, Ms. Hammer of RANE Network warned.

Arranging transportation through a travel company or a resort for excursions or trips to the airport is highly recommended, said Scott Stewart, the vice president for intelligence at the security firm TorchStone Global.

“A lot of times, there’s not a lot of a gap between criminals and taxi drivers in many countries, so using a trusted transportation provider is huge,” said Mr. Stewart.

He also recommends “traveling gray,” a term used in security circles for keeping a low profile, such as by not displaying luxury items that might draw the attention of criminals.

The State Department’s reissued warning raised concerns for Ms. Moore, the traveler heading to Jamaica, but it hasn’t deterred her from making the trip.

“In the tourist areas, I just feel very comfortable,” she said. “I’ve just never had any bad experiences, knock on wood, and I love Jamaica. That’s why I keep going back.”

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Following the release of Condé Nast Traveler 's annual Women Who Travel Power List , spotlighting 15 leaders in design , activism, food, storytelling, and pop culture, Lale and fellow editor Megan Spurrell get together in the studio to chat about how they shaped the list, the ways its guiding their travel decisions, and ask the question: How should we use our power, once we have it?

Lale Arikoglu: Hi there, I'm Lale Arikoglu, and welcome to an episode of Women Who Travel. This week we're celebrating the publication of our 2024 Women Who Travel power list, we spotlight 15 women across fields like film, music, activism and food, and shaping how we travel and think about travel today. These women are offering unique insights from so many different angles and life experiences. To help me dive in and go behind the scenes of the making of the list is senior editor Megan Spurrell, a repeat podcast guest, my dear, dear colleague, a South America expert and truly intrinsic in putting this project together, there were many reasons why I was looking forward to this chat. Well, happy Women's History Month, Megan.

Megan Spurrell: My gosh, thank you, I forgot there was a whole month.

LA: But we're here today to chat about our annual Women Who Travel power list, which I think the two of us have put no tears, but a lot of blood and sweat into this year and last year.

MS: A lot of hours.

LA: A lot of hours, a lot of collaboration, a lot of moving parts, and I did. Before we start talking about the list, I wanted to honor our hard work, and Megan and I have worked together-

MS: I can't wait to see where this is going, I'm fiddling.

LA: ... You are getting a present basically, just a little something to acknowledge you for all your work on this list.

MS: A present, is it something that's going to make me cry?

LA: No, I'm actually interested to know what your response is going to be, and this has been a running joke that we've had for a very long time.

MS: Wait, is this real? Where did this come from? Wait.

LA: I didn't realize it needed to be assembled, so when we were going to the loo on the way down to the studio, I bustled off into the cubicle with my bag because I needed to put it together.

MS: Is that why you were like, "I'm going to bring my whole bag down?"

MS: Well, that's efficient.

LA: This gift that I'm handing Megan right now is very symbolic of our work together. When Megan first joined Traveler and we were really at the beginning of starting the Women Who Travel universe, Megan immediately raised her hand and was like, "I want to get involved in this crazy enterprise."

MS: I'm going to cry.

LA: When Megan started, one of the first things she did was write an advice column and we always joked that we needed one of those lip phones so Megan can take calls from all of our travelers that needed her guidance and her help. So I finally got, here's your lip phone.

MS: I can't tell you where my brain went when you were starting to pull it out, and what I thought it might be, this is the best possible scenario.

LA: I'm so pleased.

MS: Thank you.

LA: There were lots of different color options, but I thought we had to go for the classic red.

MS: It's perfect, it's the only one.

LA: The '80s red lips.

MS: I'm going to be insufferable in the office and honestly, we might need to bring the advice column back just so I can use it.

LA: I also think we should figure out if we can set it up so that it actually rings at your desk.

MS: Should I just get a landline, it'd be worth it.

LA: I don't think I've ever seen someone use one of these landline phones.

MS: You have to picture someone in a nightgown or a satin slip laying on her stomach on her bed, holding the phone, feet are kicking in the air and she's gossiping or planning her night out.

LA: This is a gossip phone.

MS: Yeah, I can't believe I have one, this is such a long time coming, this is so perfect.

LA: Megan used to be the Women Who Travel advice columnists back in the day, dishing out all sorts of tips and guidance to our readers, including one woman who, like me, felt like her identity was tightly wound up in her travels and was losing her sense of self as a result of COVID lockdowns.

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MS: We let people write in, ask us their questions, anything about travel, so it could be tips for traveling with a friend who has anxiety. There was one that got big reactions, it was about someone wrote in who doesn't have sex on vacation anymore because it only takes family trips and they really wanted some tips for that.

LA: There was one about how to handle finances if you are traveling with a group of friends who earn more than you, I remember that one I felt relatable for a lot of people and we had some great solo travel advice. Also, I think one about navigating travel with a partner who maybe travels differently from you or doesn't like travel, it really run the gamut, I thought.

At a certain point, I had to stop distracting Megan with my dumb gift and actually talk about the list. Talking about women who travel community, the power list really is a moment to acknowledge some of the leaders of that community, people who are driving the conversation, are shaping it in some way, just explain a little bit what this list is and why we're so excited about it this year?

MS: We describe it in a few different ways, but it's the women who are driving the way we think about travel right now, so they're creating interesting conversations. It's like when I think about I'm at a dinner party with my friends who don't work in the travel industry, but love to travel, the women I want to be like, have you heard of this cool fashion brand from Brazil? Or have you heard about this new wildlife show hosted by a woman? They're the people I want to bring up at a party and talk about, it's actually really exciting even if you aren't in the industry like we are. So that's how I describe the power list, it's like these women who are taking it the direction that I want it to go that make me excited about how travel's evolving.

LA: Often when you think of some list of change makers or powerful people in an industry, you think of it very much as people in a corner office, it's CEOs, it's the suits that are the ones who are in control of a space, but that's not what this list is.

MS: It's not just CEOs of travel companies, it is people who work in fashion that brings us culture from another part of the world or they make the clothes we want to wear on vacation. It is women who are directing movies and TV shows that represent or encapsulate a third culture experience or an immigrant experience or any other type of travel. So I think it's not industry, it's women who come at travel from all these different angles, which I also think is so relevant to how we think about the act of travel in general, it's everything, it's food, it's music, it's all this stuff, it's not just the airports and the packing your bag.

LA: Unless you are actually working on a magazine, no one knows what actually goes into creating these lists, it's not just throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks.

MS: I wish it were.

LA: I know, right? There's a long process and we started working on this really, I'd say September, October, was probably when we first started having conversations about it and now we're in March.

MS: Like so many things we work on, we start brainstorming and we try and figure out what is the list trying to say about travel right now? And we see who jumps out and who's really making a difference, and again, those people that we want to bring up and talk about with other people in the industry, the people who inspire us to think differently about the work we're doing, but it's like who's really changing stuff.

LA: We had multiple women with travel shows last year , we had Padma Lakshmi and we had Eva Longoria who had just released her version of Stanley Tucci's Italy travel show focused on Mexico with CNN. Both of those shows have been very well received and were very immersive and exciting to see these women. For a little bit of context, anyone who likes watching travel shows has probably noticed that it's often men who are presenting them, it's a very, very hard space for anyone really who's not a white man, I would say, to break into and also get their shows renewed. And something that was very noticeable to me when we were crafting this list was that there wasn't an Eva or a Padma this year, but we did have Rae Wynn-Grant.

Rae Wynn-Grant: Today we're going to talk about apex predators, but we're starting at a place that you wouldn't normally expect to find large carnivores roaming around right in the heart of Los Angeles . Griffith Park is this famous urban park in LA, so picture sprawling hills covered in trees and shrubs, just an island of greenery surrounded by freeways and nestled in these hills is the iconic Hollywood sign and all around it are wilderness areas where you'll find native wild animals roaming around, including this one particular mountain lion.

LA: That was from Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, and the enthralling episode is called, The Untold Story of California's Mighty Predator. She'll be appearing on the podcast in a few weeks. Coming up, a designer bringing Brazil to our closets and even the ski slopes. Another big talking point in the context of women in travel is solo travel-

MS: Always.

LA: ... This is not a new trend, women have always somewhere in the world been traveling, but they haven't necessarily had control of that narrative, the issue of safety comes up time and time again, and that means something different for different women and it can feel prohibitive and it can feel scary for a lot of people, and daunting, like where do you start? Even just the idea of eating in a restaurant alone if you've never done it before can seem like a mountain to climb. And one woman that's on this list who I think is a wonderful example of where you begin and who you can become as a solo traveler is Charlotte Simpson.

MS: Our favorite.

LA: Our favorite Charlotte who has been on this podcast a few years ago.

MS: She's a great definition of power, she has just taken her life after her husband passed away who she used to travel with. She's taken her retirement and her time and her travels into her own hands, she's doing all these things, she's going to every corner of the world, traveling alone, sometimes traveling with her kids or friends, but she's an Instagram influencer and that's what I want to see when I open my phone. I want to see where's Charlotte? What is she doing right now? Because it makes me realize how much more there is ahead that I can't wait to get to.

LA: Well, and I think also just what a joy to see a content creator and an influencer, because she is, not be 25 years old, 35 years old, someone who actually has life experience and is seeing the world in a different way. And the fact that she's traveling under this Instagram handle, @travelingblackwidow , she's owning her life's history and using it as the driving force for how she travels now. Charlotte is so glam, she's always dressed up when she's out in the world, no matter where she is. I think if there was anyone who had a lip phone in their house-

MS: It's Charlotte.

LA: ... It was probably Charlotte back in the day.

MS: Well, I was going to say, and I just pulled up some photos to confirm, she always has a red lip, in my head, she's always got her jewelry matching and she has a red lip and I'm confirming if she does do the red lipstick on hiking among Redwoods , exploring cities, she is in Croatia here at the Waterfalls, she looks good wherever she is.

LA: Which I love because I think both of us are quite relatively intrepid adventurers travelers at this point, we've got to go to some pretty out there places usually on our own. And I also love fashion, I know you do too, often we hummed into work wearing the same clothes.

MS: We did have to text this morning to make sure we weren't wearing the same thing.

LA: Which one could think is charming but actually might be troubling.

MS: Can you imagine?

LA: Mortifying. And sometimes I feel like people think there isn't a place for both, you can't be out in hiking in the redwoods and also be wearing a red lip, that the two things can't exist together. And I actually find that really annoying because I think because I love to dress up, I love wearing heels, I have a lot of people who always tell me that I am not that adventurous and I'm like, "I'm sorry, did you hike through Patagonia alone? Please show me the photos because I know I did." So seeing Charlotte out there just being her I think is fabulous.

Charlotte Simpson: It does give you this kind of like a Rick Steves or somebody or Samantha Brown kind of feeling like, all right, I need to really be knowledgeable about this place because people are going to be asking questions and I can't just be over here taking a bunch of pretty pictures of things, I've got to have a little something to say with it, I'll be writing captions. So many of my friends are still married and in a way they don't see themselves having the need to travel alone or wanting, just like I never wanted to travel alone. It wasn't even about not wanting to, it just didn't occur to me as a wife to travel alone.

And as a matter of fact, the first trip my daughter and I did together when we went to Morocco at Christmas and there were two ladies who were alone and I would ask them, and I feel bad now for asking with the tone that I used, but I was like, "why are you alone and it's Christmas?" Because I just couldn't understand. As a matter of fact, just the other day, a former coworker, well, anyhow, the other day she announces that she's retiring from teaching at 55 and I'm like, what? I couldn't believe it. And she's always saying how inspiring my pictures are and she just had no idea I loved travel so much, and I do feel part of it is just actually even after this last year that people look at their lives a little differently. And she's single, she's always been single, and I think she just feels like, there's a whole big out there and I am just going to just even try solo travel, I really think she's going to try solo.

LA: That was a clip from Charlotte Simpson or traveling back widow when she was on our show.

MS: It makes me think about someone else on the list, Katia Barros is the founder of Farm Rio , and I was so excited to have on here because I lived in Rio for a year after I graduated college and I remember farm stores being like just, they have these beautiful maxi dresses that are bright, punchy colors and maxi floral prints. She's been doing this for 25 years, so now she's honoring 25 years of Farm Rio, she's expanding to all these other countries around the world and she's also not just making beach clothes anymore, she's adapting to the different places that the brand is expanding.

They launched a ski collection that's like, it is the snow suits, but with rainbow stripes, there are ski pants that have two cans on them, these gigantic two can prints and it's so lively and so fun. And again, it embodies that, it's like you can be going down a black diamond and still looking amazing, and I love that ethos, it's definitely relatable to us.

LA: And the domain of adventure and travel is always being dominated by the same type of people who are dressing and looking a similar way. And it's like, no, you can be in your very flamboyant printed ski suit and be the best skier on the slope.

MS: And I think she said something really interesting when I interviewed her for this about how travel gives you or vacation gives you permission to do whatever you want. And I think that idea is also really important for women that it's like we have so many different rules and expectations put on us, and I do think travel lets you step out of that a bit, it lets you maybe dress more boldly than you would at home, you figure you don't know as many people. You're up for trying something that you maybe wouldn't usually, you'll go somewhere alone, you'll do these things, you say yes to all these different experiences. And so I think, again, it's more than just fashion and clothing, it's about the way that we travel and that is so representative to me of how women travel right now.

LA: You introduced Farm Rio to me a few years ago and I had no knowledge of it. And when you were talking about when giving yourself permission to experiment a bit more and that can often be with style, what is it about Farm Rio that was embodying Brazil for you and what you were discovering that you loved about Brazil?

MS: At the time, first of all, I was a pretty broke English teacher, so I think I also just was like, God, this is so glamorous and I want it all and I can't have it all. But I think when Farm Rio opened their first store outside of Brazil, it was here in New York in 2019 I think, and the store, probably some mixed reactions, but it actually had sand on the floor like you walked into a beach. Do you remember this?

LA: I do remember that, and I'm just thinking, what an innocent time before the pandemic where I walked into a store and I was like, they have sand on the ground, it's incredible.

MS: Something that was also really fun for me, they were making these T-shirts that had really specific resilience snacks that you are sold on the beach in Rio. So they had a big graphic of these Globo, I don't even know how to describe them, like biscuits or crackers, and I don't think they have a lot of flavor, but people love them and they're just like. I feel like my Brazilian friends, it is childhood to them to see those crackers, and so the fact that they had all these people in New York who probably have never had a Globo little crisp like wearing these big shirts, you feel something when you see it and recognize it, and it teaches other people about the culture.

LA: Staying in South America, another person who's exporting their culture is the Colombian singer, Kali Uchis, someone that you really wanted to be featured on the list and I think is a wonderful, wonderful fit and I love her music. What's she doing with Colombian music and Colombian culture that's resonating here in the US and what dialogue is she creating?

MS: Everyone is listening to reggaeton now, I think it's just at this fever pitch moment. What's interesting about Kali is she grew up in Virginia, but to Colombian parents, so she's looking back now on the immigrant experience of her parents, where she came from. And I think along the way, she's bringing all these Colombian sounds to people in the US and I think I like to imagine that when people go to Columbia where her parents are from that they will feel like something's familiar because they've listened to Kali Uchis's music, and I love that.

LA: A lot of these women on this list are people that we've been following for some time, but there are different levels of known. I think listeners will be really familiar with a few of the names, but there'll also be lots of people to discover on this list. There's common ground, travel's the thing that ties them together, but ultimately, their life experiences and their backgrounds are incredibly different.

MS: Yeah, I honestly am looking at it and I can't even group them because last year we had the people working in design, the people working with the shows, and it's just so varied this year. I think readers might see some names and know those people from work they do, I'm thinking of Quannah Chasinghorse who has been on the cover of Vogue, she's a model, and I think people might at first be curious how we're tying it to travel, and again, we then get into her environmental activism, all these other things. And I hope that people will realize how big a part of travel all these conversations are right now, like Quannah Chasinghorse is such an activist for indigenous rights, climate, land and water rights, she's been at the forefront of protests across the country for fighting for indigenous lands.

LA: There are people who were driving the conversation for travelers, and this is not just in America, Quannah is from Alaska, so she is speaking to indigenous land rights in the US. But all across the travel space in Canada and in Australia, in Chile, there are all these countries that are wrestling with their history and the land and whose land it belongs to, and that ties into the conversation of travel.

MS: I think the way you put that into practice is, figure out whose land you're on, don't assume they're no longer there. Different countries have marks of authenticity that they use to represent like this is an indigenous tourism experience led by indigenous people probably owned by indigenous operators, and you'll find that in Canada, you will find that in Sweden.

LA: Also, imagine the money that you are spending on the experience is going to the right people. Back in North America, Emily Henry, author of books like Beach Read, People on Vacation, she has sold millions of copies for her romance novels that people are obsessed with.

MS: If you've walked through a Hudson News and not seen everyone holding one, I don't know where you've been.

LA: It's a Hudson News, it's the Sun Lounges, she's making so much money off writing beach reads, but she does it with a wink-wink because, again, that first book that really bought her into prominence was called Beach Read. She's writing a genre that doesn't always get taken particularly seriously, and often women are pigeonholed into writing, but she's doing it really well because I think it gets dismissed a lot.

MS: I just think it's so common that women do something and then it's some art form and it's seen as lean stream or somehow not as deserving of praise. And it's like, if she is selling more books at every single airport and every single bookstore and on everywhere online selling so many more books about people on vacation than anyone else, she's doing something right and something else none of the men are doing.

LA: She sold 6 million copies last year alone, in a publishing industry in 2023, 2024, that's quite rare.

MS: She's speaking to an experience I have as a woman falling in love with people on vacation or flings and she knows how to do it in a way that people really enjoy, she's very good at it, and people have fun, they enjoy her work.

LA: The world's particularly heavy right now, and sometimes you do just want to escape, just immerse yourself in it, and I think it's fine to have fun and be silly in that often, for whatever reason, we don't grant ourselves or others that joy sometimes.

MS: Definitely.

LA: After the break, how the power list is inspiring mine and Megan's travels for the year. Regardless of where you are listening right now, all of Conde Nast Travelers markets are sharing this list. So Conde Nast Traveler India, Conde Nast Traveler Spain, UK, Conde Nast Traveler Middle East, all of the markets are publishing this list on their websites, and I think that really speaks to how much of the world we've attempted to bring into this. And also it just makes me want to travel, it makes me want to go and experience a bunch of the stuff that these women are talking about or are creating. Where do you want to go and for whose work?

MS: I also interviewed Laila Gohar and I want to go see-

LA: Wait, who's Laila Gohar for the uninitiated?

MS: ... She's an artist, she does these very surreal food installations. She made these gigantic cakes that were in a garden in a hotel in Paris and it just looks almost a little Alice Wonderland-y, but gorgeous, just really, it's like I want to go see a hotel that has one of her installations. I also think about Aditi Dugar, who's a chef in India, she has a restaurant called Masque that just sounds incredible and they're doing these different pop-up experiences around the country.

LA: Well, and she is quite extraordinary, to actually say this out loud, but she was the first woman to be in the 50 best restaurants in Asia list, that's 50 in one list and she was the first woman, that list comes out every year, that's wild.

MS: And I think what's so cool is, you talked about how we've been following these women, she started this work a long time ago, but it really is coming to a head now. I also think Anomien Smith who does really sustainable, really integrated in the natural world like Safari Camp design, she designed Camp Sarika at Amangiri in Utah, send me there immediately, please, I would love that.

LA: And you distract me with your lip phone.

LA: Stop playing with the lip phone.

MS: Excited.

LA: I can't wait to just toast to ourselves and also toast to the women on this list. There are a few points when we thought we wouldn't get it out of the door when we were negotiating access to interview 15 people in 15 different places in the world, which is no small feat, but we did it in the end, didn't we?

MS: And then it comes out and it looks amazing, and there are these photos and videos of the women featured all around the world and I immediately forget about that and I'm just excited that it's there.

LA: And it's so substantial, so if you haven't had time to read it yet, go on to womenwhotravel.com, follow us on Instagram, sign up for our newsletters, and really dive into each of these 15 profiles, I think you'll discover some amazing people and their stories.

Next week, an author and her daughter tells stories of Cambodia and its noodles and how food came to be an act of resistance. I'm LA, and you can find me on Instagram @lale_hannah. Our engineers are Jake Lummus, Nick Pitman, and James Yost. The show's mixed by Amar Lal, Jude Kampfner from Corporation for Independent Media is our producer, Chris Bannon is Conde Nast head of Global Audio. See you next week.

Sophisticated ‘burglary tourists’ fly from South America to rob wealthy homes, LAPD says

Los Angeles Police Department headquarters is seen on Feb. 8, 2022.

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In the desert around Scottsdale, Ariz., on Monday, police officers hunted for a member of an international heist ring suspected of swiping jewels and luxury goods from homes across Los Angeles. Using helicopters and drones, they eventually found him hiding under a tree.

The wanted man, it turned out, was a 17-year-old from Chile.

Authorities say the teenager and his two adult accomplices later admitted to breaking into multiple homes, part of a growing trend of “burglary tourism” from South America.

The Los Angeles Police Department said the teenage fugitive was first arrested Feb. 29 in Pacific Palisades along with three other Chileans as they cased homes in the wealthy enclave. Police tracked down the crew after a security camera captured the license plate of their 2024 Hyundai Tucson amid a series of burglaries across East Hollywood.

Increasingly over the last five years , police officials say, thieves from South American nations have entered the U.S. for the purpose of committing robberies. In the case of Chile, authorities suspect some criminals are taking advantage of the tourist visa system, which does not require a background check for travelers. Once in the country, police say, they plan heist sprees and fence the loot before dispatching their earnings back home.

LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told The Times that South American theft groups are not new in L.A., but they have become more active in recent months.

Although crime statistics show burglaries are on the decline overall, Hamilton said: “The number of crimes tied to these kind of crews are way, way up.”

He cautioned that it’s difficult to know for certain how many robberies can be attributed to foreign burglars, but said evidence indicates they are behind scores of break-ins. He estimated that north of the 118 Freeway in L.A. last year there were 94 burglaries, many probably committed by these crews.

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“They often target homes often connected to open spaces, hiking trails and canyons that give them access,” Hamilton said.

The groups mostly hit wealthy neighborhoods where homes have jewelry and high-value items that can be easily exchanged for cash, he said.

“They tend to not carry guns. They don’t want to get gun charges,” Hamilton said. “They sometimes carry jamming devices to disable home security systems.”

While Chileans are among the most common members of these criminal enterprises, Hamilton said, they are seeing other South Americans including Peruvians, Ecuadoreans and Colombians as well. The LAPD and other local law enforcement agencies have formed a task force dedicated to the problem.

“I can tell you that we have a significant increase in burglaries from organized groups that are outside this country, that are coming into the country, and they are targeting high-end residents,” LAPD Chief Dominic Choi said at Tuesday’s Police Commission meeting.

In one case on Aug. 17 of last year, Burbank police officers arrested a man identified as Felipe Leiva Solis, a 33-year-old Chilean national, after a woman hiding in the bathroom of her home called to report that four men had broken in through a sliding door. Leiva Solis was found in a nearby yard on Burbank’s North Parish Place and is suspected of four other burglaries across the city, according to court documents.

Leiva Solis was released on bail but picked up again on Dec. 19 in Glendale by police officers who suspect he was behind a string of burglaries in the city. He was among a group of three men who tried to flee on foot when their vehicle was stopped, according to Glendale Police Investigator Jackie Nguy.

In court papers asking for Leiva Solis to remain in custody, Nguy alleged the Chilean was part of “an organized burglary ring responsible for a minimum of ten residential burglaries in Glendale,” and also tied to other thefts in Beverly Hills and other counties.

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LAPD Det. Robert Hoebink said in a court declaration that Leiva Solis’ crew was tied to at least 30 burglaries in West Los Angeles alone. Hoebink alleged the Chilean used a fake passport to open a Bank of America account and wired more than $23,000 back home despite being here on a tourist visa.

LAPD officers on Dec. 27 nabbed three more of the crew allegedly tied to Leiva Solis near Coldwater Canyon Drive south of Mulholland when called to assist Beverly Hills on a manhunt for burglars. Inside a Ford Explorer, police said they found $1 million worth of stolen designer purses, clothing, watches and jewelry — all believed to be from a single heist.

Three more arrests would come the next day as LAPD investigators recovered more high-end items from the group’s base of operations.

On Dec. 30, another West L.A. burglary led Beverly Hills police to identify a white Mercedes GLS as tied to the crime, arresting a female driver and four other suspects nearby.

Abraham Pablo Herrera Montecino, left, Francisco Alegria Velasquez and Felipe Leiva Solis.

Leiva Solis is being held without bail and is slated to be back in court next week. He’s pleaded not guilty to three counts of burglary and one count of conspiracy to commit burglary.

Investigators say Chilean or South American crews are also behind hundreds of break-ins in Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Diego counties.

In Orange County, Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer has aggressively prosecuted South American thieves and sued the federal government for failing to disclose its negotiations with Chile over visa requirements for travelers. He has called for measures to stop criminals from entering as tourists.

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Spitzer said the Chilean government has refused to abide by a requirement to provide the U.S. with the criminal history of Chilean citizens who use a visa program called Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or ESTA. The program allows Chileans residents to enter the U.S. for 90-day periods an unlimited number of times. Visa requirements vary between countries, but travelers from several other South American nations typically require visas with tighter restrictions before coming to the U.S.

Without criminal histories of Chileans, prosecutors have been largely handcuffed in trying to prove defendants are linked beyond a single burglary charge, Spitzer said.

The Chilean Embassy in Los Angeles did not respond to a request for comment.

Authorities said the Chilean teenage fugitive arrested in Arizona had fake Venezuelan paperwork when he was arrested in L.A. and had repeatedly tried to evade police. After he was arrested Feb. 29 in L.A., he told authorities his parents had left him alone in the U.S. with a family friend. Once he was turned over to L.A. County Children and Family Services, he vanished after going for a walk in Lakewood, police said.

When he was eventually recaptured this week, Scottdale Police Chief Jeff Walther said the teenager had “court documentation from his crimes he committed in California and before fleeing to Arizona ... and some property we are trying to tie to other burglaries.”

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How green is your next vacation? Here's how to tell

Travel consumes precious natural resources, pollutes the environment and punches a hole in the ozone layer. You probably already know that most vacations are not green. But does the travel industry know?

A 2023 study by Booking.com found that 74% of travelers believe people need to "act now" to make more sustainable choices to save the planet for future generations. That's up from 66% the year before. Yet hotels continue to act like scrapping single-use soaps and sourcing their restaurant food locally will reverse climate change. 

And airlines are making often outrageous claims that they're "sustainable" even as travelers feel the effects of climate change .

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"It can’t just be an impressive-sounding goal on a reusable water bottle," said Kathleen Hetrick, a sustainability engineer at the design firm Buro Happold and contributor to the book "The Regenerative Materials Movement." "There needs to be intention – and, of course, measurable action behind it."

That's a nice way of saying, "Enough is enough. No more greenwashing."

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What is greenwashing?

Greenwashing, or making exaggerated claims about your sustainability to attract visitors, is everywhere.

Last fall, Austrian Airlines lost a case brought against it by a consumer organization , which accused the carrier of advertising carbon-neutral flights that used 100% sustainable aviation fuel. A lower court found the advertisements to be misleading.

In December, the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority ruled that Air France, Lufthansa and Etihad had published ads that promised passengers would "fly more sustainably" and that they were "committed to protecting the environment." Regulators said the ads were false and misleading – and pointed out that air travel produces high levels of both carbon dioxide and non-CO 2 emissions.

Closer to home, one of the biggest greenwashing cases in recent years happened at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego County, a resort that had won numerous environmental awards. Activists found that the resort was trapping and killing wildlife , including skunks and possums.

And here's the thing: It's really hard to tell if an airline or hotel is greenwashing. It's not as if there are environmental cops patrolling a resort. Your resort could make outrageously false claims about how it loves the environment, and you'd be none the wiser.

Or would you?

How can you tell if a travel business really cares about the environment?

Look, let's be honest – there's no such thing as a "green" vacation. You'll leave a carbon footprint, no matter what. But your trip can be green-ish. Here are a few questions to ask:

  • Is it a B Corp? B Corps are businesses that meet a strict set of standards by the nonprofit B Lab . They include requirements for governance, workers, customers, community and the environment. You can search the directory of these forward-looking companies online. You'll see some fairly well-known brands, like Intrepid Travel . But you won't find the names of any major airlines, car rental companies or hotel chains – at least, not yet.
  • Does the company have any other environmental certifications? Third-party certifications from Green Key, LEED and WELL can be signs that a travel company means business about the environment. Transportation companies may also offer verified offsets from organizations like Terrapass or the Gold Standard Foundation . These certifications aren't a guarantee the company is green, but it's a good start.
  • What's the company saying to everyone? If the company claims to be green, don't just take its word for it. Listen to what it says. If you see nothing but bikini models lounging around a pool on its Instagram channel or ads for online discounts on its site, perhaps it's a shade of fake green. "A company's social media strategy is generally a reflection of its current ethos and goals," explained Julia Carter, founder of Craft Travel . If you see posts about sustainability and conservation, it can be a positive sign.
  • How deep is its commitment to the environment? Look for reliable reports on sustainability from a travel company.  For example, The Travel Corporation publishes an annual impact report that charts its progress against 11 sustainability goals developed by the United Nations. Many cruise lines also publish detailed reports that allow you to check their commitment to the environment against several objective standards. For instance, Carnival Corporation shows which goals it has completed and which ones are still in the works.

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Looking for a green vacation? Be skeptical

Allow me to go off-script for a minute. Most of the environmental claims made by the travel industry are nonsense. The only green they care about is the color of your cash. I, on the other hand, care a lot about the environment. (That's why I recycled that line from a previous story.)

Seriously, though, as someone who is literally always traveling, I find there are two consistent truths: First, no matter what the travel industry claims, it's always profits over planet. In other words, if it's a choice between doing something that will help the environment versus earning money, the money wins. 

Second, travelers lie about what they want. They tell pollsters that they want to make a difference and that they care deeply about the environment. And then they turn around and book the cheapest hotel room they can find. (Is it LEED-certified? Who cares!). They choose the least expensive airline. (Does it use biofuels? It doesn't matter!). 

And that has created an environment where travelers pretend they want a green vacation – and the travel industry pretends to give it to them.

Meantime, if you're thinking of taking a green vacation, you might want to think again. Travel harms the environment no matter how you get there. If you want to be totally green, just stay home.

Elliott's tips on spotting a travel company that's greenwashing

It's difficult to exaggerate, but almost everything in the travel industry has a tinge of fake green to it. Here's how you can spot the biggest offenders and avoid them:

  • Look for sleight of hand : Some companies highlight eco-friendly initiatives that are unrelated to their main environmental impacts. For instance, an airline might promote a small recycling program but fail to address its massive carbon footprint. "It's irrelevant," said travel advisor Kristin Winkaffe of Winkaffe Global Travel .
  • Beware of a hyper-focus on one program : Greenwashing companies focus on a single initiative but miss the bigger picture, said Justin Smith, owner of The Evolved Traveler , an agency that focuses on sustainable travel. For example, a hotel that touts its commitment to abandon single-use plastics or utensils may be missing an opportunity to create a truly sustainable product by also supporting the local population. "Such practices indicate there is not a full or authentic commitment to sustainability," he said.
  • Watch for vagueness and buzzwords : Be skeptical. Any hotel that calls itself green – or, worse, an "ecolodge" – deserves extra scrutiny. But even so, many of the terms thrown around aren't just buzzy, they're also fuzzy.  "Vague, unverifiable claims can be a sign of trouble," said Shannon Guihan, who heads The Travel Corporation’s not-for-profit TreadRight Foundation , an environmental organization focused on supporting nature-based solutions to the climate crisis.

Christopher Elliott  is an author, consumer advocate, and journalist. He founded  Elliott Advocacy , a nonprofit organization that helps solve consumer problems. He publishes  Elliott Confidential , a travel newsletter, and the  Elliott Report , a news site about customer service. If you need help with a consumer problem, you can  reach him here  or email him at  [email protected] .

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