With Instagram having replaced the good old postcard in the hearts of
travelers, the Iron Lady has become the most immortalized attraction on
the social network, garnering some 5,849,737 hashtags, according to a
report by application Motif.
How many among us have taken a photo of an iconic monument over the
holidays? Chances are that those who did took a photo of the Eiffel
Tower, which dominates the listing of the most hashtagged tourist
attractions on Instagram.
The Parisian icon is ahead of the Las Vegas Strip, (4,802,560
mentions), and NYC's Times Square (3,949,217 hashtags). The US is
further represented on the list by the Grand Canyon, with its 3,433,049
tags.
There are no Asian destinations in the listing, while the Middle East
is represented by the tallest tower in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa
(3,502,116 hashtags). London comes in with Big Ben (3,007,317 hashtags)
and the London Eye (2,980,066 hashtags).
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MacOS-native photo-integration Motif came up with the listing by
analyzing the number of hashtags published to Insta since the social
network's October 2010 debut, extrapolating the data to identity the
most visited destinations and cities worldwide.
The next two most popular French destinations on the ‘Gram are
Disneyland Paris (3,940,249 hashtags) and the Louvre (2,919,469
hashtags).
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Source - TheJakartaPost
