{"id":55254,"date":"2026-05-25T19:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=55254"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:31:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:31:37","slug":"checklist-tourism-is-on-the-rise-as-travellers-prioritise-selfies-over-real-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=55254","title":{"rendered":"Checklist tourism is on the rise as travellers prioritise selfies over \u2018real stories\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/25\/40425368-905c-4a32-8d43-508cf6165957_ecdfeab3.jpg?itok=vExST-Nm&amp;v=1779680539\" \/><br \/>Flamingos are not native to Aruba, but that does not stop throngs of tourists from flocking to the island in the southern Caribbean Sea to pose with them every year.<br \/>\nThe privately-owned Flamingo Beach is artificially populated with the pink birds, and the only ways to get in are by staying at the Renaissance Wind Creek Aruba Resort or by picking up one of a couple of dozen day passes, which cost US$125 (HK$980) and sell out almost as quickly as Bad Bunny concert tickets.<br \/>\nTravel blogger Shalyn&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/3354720\/checklist-tourism-rise-travellers-prioritise-selfies-over-real-stories?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flamingos are not native to Aruba, but that does not stop throngs of tourists from flocking to the island in the southern Caribbean Sea to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5685,5808,2492,1569,9396,1726,5058,3073],"class_list":["post-55254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-checklist","tag-prioritise","tag-real","tag-rise","tag-selfies","tag-stories","tag-tourism","tag-travellers","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}