{"id":53839,"date":"2022-10-14T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=53839"},"modified":"2022-10-14T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:38:12","slug":"the-instagram-capital-of-the-world-is-a-terrible-place-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2022\/10\/the-instagram-capital-of-the-world-is-a-terrible-place-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Amalfi-Coast-tourism.jpeg\" alt=\"The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be\" class=\"wp-image-53841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Amalfi-Coast-tourism.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Amalfi-Coast-tourism-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Amalfi-Coast-tourism-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Amalfi-Coast-tourism-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Amalfi-Coast-tourism-696x464.jpeg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just because you can (sort of) afford to go somewhere doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ll enjoy it.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This time last week I was wandering the stony streets of Positano, a small village on Italy\u2019s Amalfi Coast. Positano rests almost vertically on the steep cliffside, with peachy pastel houses stacked on top of one another against zigzagging streets where local vendors sell sips of limoncello and colorful ceramics. At the bottom there is a pebbly beach where, if it\u2019s warm enough (which it usually is), you can swim in the clear, turquoise waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Positano is blessed with a mild Mediterranean climate and a proximity to luxury and wealth; it is home to one of the most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/london\/2022\/08\/grand-detours-le-sirenuse\">famous and majestic hotels in the world<\/a>\u00a0and provided the backdrop for Diane Lane\u2019s whirlwind romance in\u00a0<em>Under the Tuscan Sun<\/em>. Twenty years later, the town has become synonymous with the grandest of influencer travelscapes, clogging Instagram with photos of beautiful people on boats, staring back in wonder at the skyline behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also the most unpleasant place I have ever been. This has little to do with the town itself, which has been home to resorts and villas for the European elite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amalficoast.com\/p\/campania-4\/amalfi-coast-1\/positano-8\/the-roman-villa-in-positano-the-past-that-emerges-2372\" rel=\"nofollow\">since the Roman Empire<\/a>&nbsp;but contains only small traces of its ancient past; as our tour guide explained, \u201cthere is no history here, it is just for relaxing and for pictures.\u201d Fewer than 4,000 people live in Positano, and tourists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ricksteves.com\/watch-read-listen\/read\/articles\/positano-stroll-behind-the-chic-facades\">outnumber them three-to-one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor is it really the fault of the crowds, though like seemingly everywhere else in Italy, they are rampant and inescapable and at times contribute to a sense of claustrophobic doom so great that the only way out is divorcing yourself from your body and disassociating until you finally reach open air. Rather, what\u2019s most disturbing about being in Positano is the knowledge that you have been suckered, and the realization that just because you have the means to go somewhere does not mean that you are owed anything more than the experiential equivalent of flying Basic Economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be in Positano as a middle-class person \u2014 someone who can afford to travel and take time off work but not, say, afford to buy real estate in the city where they live \u2014 is to feel like an idiot for believing it could have been any better, or that being there is actually a benefit to the lives of the people who live there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that there are so many more people traveling internationally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanprogress.org\/how-capitalism-brought-tourism-to-the-masses\/\">now than ever before in history<\/a>\u00a0is not necessarily a bad thing; luxuries that were once only afforded to the ultra-rich have been democratized by low-cost airlines and cheap deals on sites like Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia. For many people, the summer of 2022 was their first time traveling internationally since the pre-Covid era, and despite the continued risks of traveling at all and the confusing and contradictory regulations about masking and vaccines, planning an international trip is now a nearly seamless experience:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/2019\/10\/21\/20905485\/iceland-overtourism-reykjavik-blue-lagoon-northern-lights\">online travel agencies serve their users only<\/a>\u00a0the highest rated itineraries, thereby guaranteeing a publicly vettable experience. 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