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The purpose of the current study was to explore the reasoning and social justifications of tourists to engage in the production and sharing of travel videos and how an involvement of social media practices in everyday life experiences extended to tourism contexts. Using phenomenology, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 tourists who had experiences watching, creating and posting travel videos via social media. Data were analyzed following the “phenomenological attitude”—eidetic reduction. 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