Instagram Influencer Dataset — Travel

A Instagram (travel influencers) dataset of 1,203,723 posts from travel influencers, collected by Seungbae Kim and Jinyoung Han (2020). Each record contains post caption text, like count, comment count, video/ad flags, tagged user count, location presence, image dimensions, timestamp, and influencer follower count. The dataset is notable for its subset of 9.7M-post Instagram influencer dataset covering the travel category, with rich per-post engagement signals and influencer-level metadata. Intended for research into influencer marketing analysis, engagement prediction, social media content analysis, and sponsorship detection. This package holds the post metadata (one JSON .info file per post) and influencer lists; the post images, which the authors distribute separately on request, are not included.

#Engagement prediction#Influencer marketing#Travel influencer

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Content metrics

1,203,723 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

like countμ 2K ± 9.5K
min 0max 971.8K
comment countμ 37.094 ± 333.024
min 0max 195.3K
tagged user countμ 3.168 ± 5.265
min 0max 34
has location71.8% true
true 71.8%false 28.2%
follower countμ 59.2K ± 263.3K
min 1Kmax 9.2M
followee countμ 1.5K ± 1.6K
min 0max 7.8K
post count by userμ 1.2K ± 1.3K
min 119max 37.2K
widthμ 1.1K ± 102
min 320max 1.1K
heightμ 1.1K ± 244.1
min 167max 1.4K
12.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
16.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
lovetravellikedaytimenewbeautifulchelifehappytodayquephotogoodknowweekendyearlittlesummeramazingbestdonworldtrippeoplenatureplacetravelbloggernonbeachwaydaysweekphotographycityunahomelinkconcomewanderlustsunsetgreatmorningfunthingswantinstagoodbeautifuldestinationsblog
Topic clusters

Topic 0

che
non
una
con
sono
più
del
della

Topic 1

food
coffee
breakfast
delicious
good
eat
restaurant
dinner

Topic 2

life
love
feel
time
people
year
know
thing

Topic 3

mountain
hike
iceland
wildernessculture
optoutside
stayandwander
artofvisual
roamtheplanet

Topic 4

vous
pour
paris
les
une
des
avec
pas

Topic 5

fashion
giveaway
hair
love
skin
style
new
winner

Topic 6

und
ich
die
der
ist
das
ein
mit

Topic 7

flower
morning
summer
spring
autumn
garden
snow
bloom

Topic 8

travel
bali
island
wanderlust
beach
travelblogger
thailand
travelgram

Topic 9

que
para
por
não
uma
mais
las
como

Topic 10

dream
home
lose
look
feel
know
think
view

Topic 11

run
bike
race
training
workout
runner
fitness
mtb
Show all 16 topics

Topic 12

london
thisislondon
visitlondon
prettycitylondon
prettylittlelondon
timeoutlondon
igerslondon
londonlife

Topic 13

australia
beach
sydney
surf
ocean
scotland
seeaustralia
island

Topic 14

weekend
sunday
happy
monday
friday
week
saturday
like

Topic 15

birthday
happy
year
day
celebrate
love
valentine
little
Top hashtags
#travel85.4K
#travelblogger43K
#love41.7K
#wanderlust37.1K
#ad36.4K
#instagood34.9K
#travelgram34.2K
#photography34K
#beautifuldestinations33.7K
#nature32K
#photooftheday31.9K
#picoftheday26.1K
#travelphotography25.7K
#passionpassport25.4K
#instatravel24.9K
#beautiful20.9K
#summer20K
#sunset20K
#adventure19.6K
#explore18.8K
Top emoji
🏼64K
🏻62.6K
😍61.4K
📸38K
😂37.2K
📷31.3K
💕27.5K
💙27.1K
🙌26.7K
🌴23.8K
😊20K
🙏19.1K
🏽18.9K
🌊18.4K
🌸18.1K

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 1.2M records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
instagram-influencer-travel
Authors
Kim, Seungbae; Han, Jinyoung
Year
2020
Source paper
Instagram Influencer Dataset
License
Academic research use only (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
1,203,723
Text corpus
post text
Languages
en
Collected
2018-2020 (2010s, 2020s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://sites.google.com/site/sbkimcv/dataset/instagram-influencer-dataset link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 37.2 GB across 20 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{kim2020instagram,
  title        = {Instagram Influencer Dataset},
  author       = {Kim, Seungbae and Han, Jinyoung},
  year         = {2020},
  howpublished = {\url{https://sites.google.com/site/sbkimcv/dataset/instagram-influencer-dataset}}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Kim, S., & Han, J. (2020). Instagram Influencer Dataset — Travel [Data set]. https://instagram-influencer-travel.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Kim, Seungbae, and Jinyoung Han. Instagram Influencer Dataset — Travel. 2020, instagram-influencer-travel.echo.directory/.

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