Your next bucket-list trip might be waiting for you in a place you’ve never heard of. No longer able to fly under the tourist radar, these 10 up-and-coming destinations are about to get some serious attention in 2017. From an affordable Scandinavian capital (they do exist!) to New York’s “secret” mountains, here are the 10 finalists in our Editors’ Choice category for Best Up-and-Coming Destination of 2017.
Best Up-and-Coming Destination in 2017: The Methodology
We analyzed a variety of travel trends to compile a shortlist of up-and-coming destinations. We then cross-referenced our selections against Google Trends history for flight searches, hotel searches, and overall search history for each destination over the past five years.
Our shortlist was further valued by monitoring new hotel openings and new flight routes for 2017, as well as noteworthy events, infrastructure developments, and forthcoming construction and development plans.
From this list, 10 were selected and ranked based on their values across these categories to emerge as finalists in our Editors’ Choice category for Best Up-and-Coming Destination in 2017. Here are the winners.
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