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Cathy Adams

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131 total appearances

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Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

You know, I think there is a sort of lack of imagination sometimes when it comes to tourists.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

to people just going to the very same places wanting to get that same shot.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

But it's not just down to us.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

This has to come from a government level where there's regulation around, I don't know, Airbnbs, around airlift into a country.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

It's just such a mix of things.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

Oh, so many.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

I mean, OK, so a lot of people are always telling me that the Albania coast is like the Maldives, which, trust me, absolutely is not.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

But that would be very sort of like, well, no one.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

But what I would say is it's actually very easy to find them.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

I mean, inland Spain, not many people visit inland Spain.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

Not many people visit the capital of Spain, actually.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

so that would be a good one somewhere like i don't know rather than choosing to go to south france have you ever thought about going to the german coast the polish coast you know these are places that just do not not see the level of tourism and as a result are actually very very cheap i mean poland is the real star of europe at the moment you know obviously growing very quickly um you know modernizing very quickly so that is that's also a really great opportunity for a city break and it's

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

I mean, further afield, lots of people go to New York, they go to San Francisco.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

These are the kind of big gateways.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

But then a lot of those cities in the Midwest where they are now connected, you know, directly to Europe via direct flights, somewhere like, I don't know, a colleague of mine went to...

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

Oh, now I can't remember the name of the city in Missouri.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

And again, just I mean, Cincinnati is another is another one, like really Midwest cities that just are so people there are so happy to see you because they're not used to receiving sort of European tourists.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

And I think it's very easy just to, you know, to find these Jeeps, but you do just have to winkle them out.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

I'm trying to give another example.

Today with David McCullagh
TikTok Tourism: How social media is changing travel—for better and worse

I mean, anywhere just really in sort of the middle of France, who goes to Clermont-Ferrand for a city break?