Travel news: From backpack to broadband - How digitalisation and globalisation have changed travel

The concept of travel has transformed in recent years. Once dismissed as an unrealistic ambition that was associated with nomadism and straying from society, travel has now become a mainstream ambition. 

The romanticised image of the free-spirited backpacker has been replaced by ‘Insta baddies' and vloggers.

Travel News Blitz writer Freya Leather gives her thoughts…