Stays of less than 24 hours, including flights: a new atmospheric scourge

On social media, we're never safe from a reckless trend. And one of the latest, from the United Kingdom, has been driving a frenzy since last year, far beyond travel addicts. Its principle: reach a city in a single 24-hour plane ride, including the round trip. Without the slightest concern for your carbon footprint or the benefit—other than ticking a box for a change of scenery—of this express getaway. But while still being kind to your wallet.

For example, this British influencer couple, Ryan & Jade, with 506,000 followers on TikTok, boast of express getaways of less than 12 hours to Reykjavik, Marrakech or Benidorm for next to nothing: 200 pounds, or around 250 euros per person!!!) thanks to the low prices of Ryanair flights early in the morning and late in the evening. Or the English Instagrammer Robbie Watson, a fan of these "extreme day trips", as they are called, to visit the fringes of Europe more than three or four hours away by plane, such as Lanzarote in the Canary Islands or Tbilisi in Georgia.

They join in this frenetic race for likes and carbon footprint the American influencer Maddie Smith, based in Washington, promoter of time trial trips abroad (Paris for example) from the United States in 48 hours for m