Craft viral travel content with these 5 tips

If you want to take off on social media, focus on weird, inspiring or unique topics. Also, feature cute animals whenever possible.

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Analyzing the data behind the top travel content trends is a smart place to start.

Parsing social media data from September through November of last year, we examined the top trends in travel content across Facebook, Instagram and throughout the web.

Our team determined:

Here’s what we found:

1. Cute animal stories are still internet gold.

There are precious few things we agree on in this world, but adorable animals might be the most reliable.

Bored Panda scored with two notable travel stories featuring cuddly critters in 2017. This article about a man selling his possessions to travel with his cat drove more than 271,000 engagements across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

Meanwhile, this delightful story about an adventurous hedgehog just about broke the internet.

The takeaway here: You can’t go wrong by creating content that features cute animals.

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