![]() ![]() You can shoot, edit and then publish the highlights of your holiday in real time – no more waiting around in Snappy Snaps. You can navigate cities with Google Maps as opposed to a torn-out page from your guidebook. ![]() If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, how do we know it made a sound? Likewise: if an influencer visits a five-star resort in Tulum and no one sees the Instagram live stream of their poolside tacos, can we really say they’ve been on holiday? Digital technology – notably the iPhone – has transformed the experience of booking a holiday, and it’s also changed what it’s like to be on holiday. Richard Godwin tracks the ways our travel world has changed since then. Almost unimaginable, isn’t it? It was the year New Labour founded Cool Britannia, the YBAs ran riot, Harry Potter first waved his wand, that Aqua sang ‘Barbie Girl’ and Hong Kong was handed back to China. A time before Google, before Facebook, before smartphones. ![]() Think back to 1997, the year when Condé Nast Traveller was launched. ![]()
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