Personal branding in social media: A research on travel phenomenes in Instagram

With the widespread use of the Internet, social media channes that enable people to communicate with each other have become a part of their daily lives. While people's individuals desire to exist in social media channels has increased, accordingly, their desire to differentiate made the concept of personal branding a part of our lives. Fort his reason, the role of social media channels on personal branding was observed in the research. Researcher applied case study method and used qualitative research methods. Among the travel phenomena whose popularity has increased recently, in-depth interviews were made with 12 travel phenomena determined by purposeful sampling technique. The data obtained from qualitative data analysis methods and content analysis and descriptive analysis methods were analyzed. As a result of the research, it was determined that travel phenomena attach importance to personal branding activities on social media and they use social media to contribute to their personal brands bu paying attention to the feedback from their followers. However, it was concluded that the content they shared on social media contributed to personal branding efforts.