Travel Trends and Why You Should Avoid Them

Don't make me laugh. Travel trends. What's this? Is itfollowed a trend, I was dressing with my blue
now that they are trying to influence us as they havenot-well-known-brand jeans and my white
been doing with the clothing? Don't you see how crazynot-well-known-brand T-shirt. He was dressed in the
is it the impact that fashion in clothes has nowadaysskater style. He looked at me one day and he told me:
for such a stupid thing? Come on, get a pair of old"Dani, I don't know why you dress like that. It seems
jeans and white T-shirt and you are done!like if you don't have personality!".
Unfortunately, the same begins to happen with theMy answer was the following: "Maybe better not to
travel industry, as top travel destinations or travelhave personality than to have the same one as a 100
trends begin to catch the little brains of many peoplemillion people on Earth have". Of course what I meant
around.is that he was the one who didn't have personality. By
Simple and easy. What's a travel trend? The placethe way, I'm still wondering if he understood.
where more people happened to come together thisIn any case, travel trends are here to set what we
year on a touristic trip. Sounds pretty good.should do, sometimes not in a compulsory way, but
Unfortunately, the first law of the traveler, which saysthey influence our mind with statistical information of
that you should never follow the crowd, is completelywhat the other sheep does. And we like to do this it
on red alarm after hearing the word "travel trend" orseems. I would recommend to have a bit of common
"top travel destinations".sense and in front of everything put your informed
My question is then about who should decide where Idecisions on the front.
want to go on vacations. The crowd or myself? Well, IAnd yes, I said informed decisions. I'm not telling you to
hope it can be myself, wouldn't like to get on the sameavoid reading about travel destinations to avoid being
plane as everybody as it would be overcrowded... Inconvinced. I'm just telling that if after your research
any case, it seems that like in fashion, travel trends areyour feeling is to head to a determined place, don't let it
hitting hard to all those who do not have personalitygo. Some times you will be with the crowd, some
enough as to decide on themselves.others not. Even sheep sometimes go in the right
That makes me remember and old friend of minedirection.
back in school days. I was the typical guy that never