In today’s time, the joy of taking a vacation can be shared with the world, thanks to social media. A lot of people put up reels, videos and pics from their travel adventures. It helps others to take a vacation and get an idea about the places to explore at a particular destination. One such page that always gives a shout out to such travel content is @Travel. It’s an Instagram page, started in 2010, where one can find videos and pics from various parts of the world.
@Travel page on Instagram was started by Zak Longo and Mayur Patil. Zak and Mayur are both travel enthusiasts, and social media veterans. It is their interest in adventure and curiosity to know about something new led to the birth of the page which is handled by ‘Travly Inc’. They started the page even before it was a trend to upload vacation posts. Currently, it is the fastest growing travel network that aims to inspire people to see the world, virtually.
To discuss in detail about the founders, Zak Longo is a travel influencer and has more than 1 million followers. He is also the co-founder of Gamelancer Inc, the largest gaming network on Tiktok, and Instagram, which has over 30+ million followers. Zak has traveled to more than 40 countries. His own posts received more than 1 billion views. His popularity helped him work with brands like Four Seasons, Waldorf Astoria, W Hotels, Netflix, MTV, and many Tourism Boards.
After his gaming company got acquired in 2022, Zak decided to focus on his other interest professionally – travel.
Coming to Mayur Patil, he’s an entrepreneur, a Computer Science graduate from Purdue University, and one of the original core employees at 10PM Curfew (30 million followers) and Gamelancer Inc (32 million followers). Mayur also led TikTok strategy for Bustle Digital Group’s Bustle, Elite Daily, Nylon Magazine, W magazine, Romper, Inverse, and The Zoe Report. He built over 76 million followers, generating billions of views a month across all social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and Snapchat. Mayur has also worked with major brands such as Hulu, ABC, Amazon, Samsung, and Razer.
Zak and Mayur’s @Travel page is very active on Instagram, Tiktok, and Snapchat with the same username. @Travel page was created on Tiktok in 2018 and has thousands of followers. In 2021, they created a Snapchat account for their page which garnered more than 1.2 million subscribers in a few months.
Check out their page below: travel
