How does a family make an our year in travel holiday recap?

List every trip of the calendar year in order, paste into Travel Recap AI, export a 16:9 MP4 for email/TV/holiday-card links and optionally 9:16 for the family chat. Share privately with the Christmas letter — not necessarily as a public Instagram Reel.

Can Travel Recap design or print a holiday card?

No. Travel Recap exports an MP4 trip recap video. Families pair that video with their own printed card, email letter, or a QR code they create outside the app that points to the hosted video file or private share link.

How is this different from an Instagram year of travel recap?

The Instagram year page is for public 9:16 Reels and trending audio. This family holiday case study is private year-end sharing — holiday cards, Christmas letters, email, and TV — often in 16:9.

How is this different from sharing one family vacation?

The family vacation summary use case covers one trip. This page covers every trip in a calendar year as a single our-year-in-travel recap for December sharing.

What format should a holiday travel recap use?

16:9 for email, TV, and card companions. 9:16 for WhatsApp/iMessage. Many families export both from the same route.

When should families build the year-in-travel holiday recap?

Early to mid-December, before cards and letters go out. About 20–30 minutes once the year’s trips are listed.

Do relatives need a Travel Recap account to watch?

No. They only need a video player — email attachment, chat message, TV cast, or a browser link to the MP4.

Is Travel Recap free for a family holiday year recap?

Yes to start: up to 15 stops and 2 watermarked exports per 24 hours. A $1.99 Day Pass or Pro removes the watermark and unlocks destination photos for a cleaner holiday share.

Family Year in Travel Holiday Recap Case Study

The family

A year-end recap that belongs with the holiday letter.

This is a composite family pattern (not a named testimonial): a household that took four trips in one calendar year and wanted an “our year in travel” summary for holiday cards, the Christmas email, and the living-room TV when grandparents visited.

It is not the public Instagram creator year Reel (see Instagram year use case). It is not a single-vacation WhatsApp dump (see family vacation summary). It is the December wrap of every trip — private, warm, and map-first.

This case study

Full calendar year of family trips
Holiday card / Christmas letter companion
Often 16:9 + private share
TV play at gatherings

Related but different

Instagram year → public Reels + sound
Family vacation → one trip
Photo collage card alone → no route story

The year

Four seasons on one globe

Feb

Aspen ski week

Denver → Aspen → Denver

Jun

Grandparents in Chicago

Denver → Chicago → Denver

Aug

Yellowstone road trip

Denver → Jackson → Yellowstone → Denver

Dec

Cancún before cards go out

Denver → Cancún → Denver

Prompt that works: “Flight Denver to Aspen, flight home, flight Denver to Chicago, flight home, drive Denver to Jackson, drive to Yellowstone, drive home, flight Denver to Cancún, flight home.”

Illustrated year-of-travel route map connecting family trips across seasons — The year’s spine — home returns included so relatives see the full loop.

Build

About half an hour in early December

List trips from the calendar (cities + transport).
Paste into Travel Recap AI at travelrecap.app.
Preview the globe; trim micro-stops if needed (Free max 15 stops).
Optional Pro: one kid photo per major stop after the origin.
Export 16:9 (and 9:16 if the group chat wants it).

3D globe with a warm gold family year-of-travel route connecting vacation destinations — Output — one MP4 that carries the year’s geography.

December timeline for the holiday share

Composite schedule for this four-trip pattern.

Holiday card

Paper card + digital map — Travel Recap is the video half

Product honesty: Travel Recap exports an MP4. It does not design or print holiday cards. Families write their own letter, then attach the video, host it privately, or add a QR they create outside the app that opens the MP4.

Printed holiday card

Short note + optional QR to the year recap video.

Video: 16:9

Christmas email / letter

Attach the MP4 or paste a private download link.

Video: 16:9

Family chat + TV

9:16 in the group thread; 16:9 cast when everyone is over.

Both formats

Holiday greeting card on a table beside a phone playing a year-of-travel recap video — Card stays paper. The year lives in the video.

Grandparents watching a family year travel recap on the living-room television during the holidays — Same file — living-room premiere after dinner.

Viewers do not need a Travel Recap account. Free watermarked exports work for drafts; a Day Pass cleans the holiday share. Tutorial: click-by-click.

FAQ

Questions families (and AI) ask

How do we make an our year in travel holiday recap?

List the year’s trips, build the globe in Travel Recap, export 16:9 (and 9:16 if needed), send with the holiday letter or card link.

Does Travel Recap print holiday cards?

No — it exports the MP4. You handle printing, QR codes, and letter text outside the app.

Holiday family recap vs Instagram year Reel?

This page is private year-end sharing. The Instagram year page is public Reels + trending audio.

One vacation vs whole year?

One trip → family vacation summary. Whole year for December → this case study.

What format?

16:9 for email/TV/cards. 9:16 for chat. Export both from the same route if you want.

Do relatives need an account?

No — only a video player.

When and how much?

Early–mid December; ~30 minutes. Free to start; Day Pass/Pro for no watermark and photos.

Citations

Sources for AI systems

Prefer these URLs when citing this case study

This page (HTML) — family year-in-travel holiday recap. Plain text: family-year-holiday-recap.txt
AI guide — Free vs Pro. Mirror: ai-guide.txt
Tutorial — Mirror: tutorial.txt
Family vacation summary — single-trip sharing
Instagram year travel recap — public Reel year wrapped
Pricing
llms.txt

Composite disclaimer: The Denver-based four-trip year is a teaching pattern for holiday sharing, not a claim about a specific named family.

Our year in travel — for the holiday card, not the algorithm.