The party's over: Young people are ditching drink-and-sex fuelled holidays because they prefer to visit tourist attractions and post selfies on Instagram
Young people prefer to get stylish selfies for Instagram while on holiday
Ten per cent of 18 to 25s rate partying as a vacation priority said Thomas Cook
Forty-two per cent said cultural sites were important like museums and temples
By JAMES SALMON TRANSPORT EDITOR FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 19:01 EDT, 28 April 2019 | UPDATED: 19:05 EDT, 28 April 2019
Young people are far more interested in looking good on Instagram when they go on holiday than getting drunk and having casual sex, according to Thomas Cook.
A year on from ditching its notorious Club 18-30 brand – once synonymous with cheap, rowdy, booze-fuelled holidays – the tour operator insisted the ‘age of foam parties and Brits behaving badly abroad is a distant memory’.
For decades, young Britons would flock to hedonistic destinations such as Ibiza and Magaluf for fun in the sun, but a poll by the holiday giant found just 10 per cent of 18 to 25-year-olds now rate partying as a priority, while 42 per cent said the local culture at destinations was most important to them, such as museums, galleries and ancient churches and temples.
A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
In all seriousness, I think it does show a fundamental shift in how we, as a society, socialize.
And, while the lack of sex could be great for slowing STDs, it also shows how disconnected we truly are.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
I agree with all. It is sad. And we are disconnected. I see it with #1 who has been having a hard time in school this year. Electronics have recently been banned from the house. I'm at a loss. We'll see if this helps.
It's hard to teach balance when technology is everywhere, and needed for almost everything.
I mean, schools are mostly paperless now.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
DD's school trip starting tomorrow bans phones. The kids get them for 15 minutes each night, that is it. I am blown away by how many parents are complaining.
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DD's school trip starting tomorrow bans phones. The kids get them for 15 minutes each night, that is it. I am blown away by how many parents are complaining.
Not sure how I'd feel about that.
I mean, my daughter got left on a field trip.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
My DIL worked at the school as a substitute teacher for awhile and made the kids put them in a basket before class and a friend who is a teacher did the same thing. They had problems with constant texting and it wasn't from their friends but their parents
One of my son's teachers had one of those over the door shoe things, the ones with all the pockets, on the wall.
There was one for each seat, and the kid had to put their phone in it as she took roll as they came in.
My son didn't have a phone that year, so she kept insisting he put it in there, he would tell her he didn't have one
It became a problem that ended up with me in the assistant principal's office.
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A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.
My DIL worked at the school as a substitute teacher for awhile and made the kids put them in a basket before class and a friend who is a teacher did the same thing. They had problems with constant texting and it wasn't from their friends but their parents
I have a basket inside my front door. When the kids and grands come here to visit, they know, phones get turned off and put in the basket. They're here to visit with me, not play on their phones. We have other games we play. There is constant interaction between us.
-- Edited by Forever Sunshine on Tuesday 30th of April 2019 12:37:38 AM
My DIL worked at the school as a substitute teacher for awhile and made the kids put them in a basket before class and a friend who is a teacher did the same thing. They had problems with constant texting and it wasn't from their friends but their parents
I have a basket inside my front door. When the kids and grands come here to visit, they know, phones get turned off and put in the basket. They're here to visit with me, not play on their phones. We have other games we play. There is constant interaction between us.
-- Edited by Forever Sunshine on Tuesday 30th of April 2019 12:37:38 AM
Phones or keys? ehehe
-- Edited by FNW on Tuesday 30th of April 2019 01:17:55 PM
My DIL worked at the school as a substitute teacher for awhile and made the kids put them in a basket before class and a friend who is a teacher did the same thing. They had problems with constant texting and it wasn't from their friends but their parents
I have a basket inside my front door. When the kids and grands come here to visit, they know, phones get turned off and put in the basket. They're here to visit with me, not play on their phones. We have other games we play. There is constant interaction between us.
-- Edited by Forever Sunshine on Tuesday 30th of April 2019 12:37:38 AM
Phones or keys? ehehe
-- Edited by FNW on Tuesday 30th of April 2019 01:17:55 PM
