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Nunavik is one of our Best Places to Go in North America in 2024, part of our global guide to the Best Places to Go in 2024—find even more travel inspiration here.

Jan 15, 2025 • 7 min read

The Caribbean is a perennial dream destination for weary winter travelers and has a unique appeal at the start of a new year following the long holiday season.

Jan 13, 2025 • 17 min read

For most 8-year-olds, waking up at four in the morning would be an unwelcome experience. But for me, waking up on a frigid March morning in 1998, I was ready to go. It was our first family road trip , and we were headed down to my grandparents' Condo in Marco Island, Florida. And, in what was probably a bid to keep me quiet, my parents had bought me a brand new Gameboy with Pokémon — I was raring to go.

Busy airports are already setting records this year, but there are still a few affordable destinations travelers can seek out in 2025.

Last year, open water swimmer Amy Appelhans Gubser became the first person to swim from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands, a craggy, mostly uninhabited archipelago off the Pacific coast that is known for its frigid, shark-infested waters. The 55-year-old fetal cardiology nurse coordinator from Pacifica, California, completed the 29.6-mile distance in 17 hours, three minutes. “It was so foggy that I only knew when it was daylight because the sky was a lighter gray,” she says.

Are you looking for an out-of-the-ordinary cruise adventure across the globe? Holland America Line has just announced some epic new itineraries you need to book.

Southwest Florida is a vacationer’s dream. That comes as zero surprise to anyone who’s had the pleasure of digging their toes into the warm, white sands that stretch from Fort Myers to Sanibel Island and beyond. You could happily spend your vacation trawling for seashells and building pint-sized castles, but there’s a lot more to this region than its beaches — including some unique experiences that you might only find here.

As Paul O’Neil was tending to his new beehives one day, a family with three young children walked by. 

Choros maltones, for which the town of Nehuentúe is famed, grow plump and sweet at the brackish mouth of the Imperial River on the coast of La Araucanía, a southern Chilean region with a large Indigenous population. These mussels get so big that they're nicknamed zapatos, or shoes. All of the divers who harvest them are men, except for Cecilia Sanhueza. She's the chef-owner of El Estuario del Maltón, one of nine restaurants in Nehuentúe's Centro Gastronómico cooperative, located on an estuary where painted dories bob.

Negros Island, the fourth largest island in the Philippines, offers a journey through its rich history and breathtaking biodiversity.

Royal Caribbean is poised to build a vast and highly profitable vacation network — driven not solely by its cruise vessels but by its land-based portfolio.

A wave of vandalism struck two popular beaches in Los Cristianos, Tenerife, last week. More than 230 sunbeds were defaced and sprayed with anti-tourism graffiti such as "Canarias se defiende" (The Canary Islands defend themselves) and "Canarias no se vende" (The Canary Islands are not for sale).

Dec 18, 2024 • 8 min read

In March 2023, Tim Wong and Andrew Q. Tran took an impactful trip to Asia: The Bay Area-based couple, who began dating in 2020 after meeting through Andrew’s sister, attended a friend’s destination wedding on Balesin Island in the Philippines and went on to visit South Korea and Japan. Tim proposed to Andrew in Osaka, and then Andrew proposed back, at their next stop in Nara. The pair had dinner with their newlywed pals once they’d all returned to the US, and it didn’t take long for Tim and Andrew to become convinced they needed to have a destination wedding, too.

A new gift idea for the traveler who has it all just landed.  Luxury tour operator Abercrombie & Kent recently unveiled two new private jet itineraries for 2026, and updated two existing ones. The programs will take travelers on curated journeys to off-the-grid, or hard to reach destinations. The firm operates the month-long excursions in February, May, September, and October and they sweep through multiple counties and destinations around the world on a private jet. 

The annual Google Year in Search was just released, chronicling the major sports, news, and pop culture trends of 2024. With over 8.5 billion searches per day, Google is privy to heaps of data on what people are looking for on the internet—including the top trending travel destinations of 2024.

Urban Africa is a love letter to the bustling African metropolises south of the great desert—Dakar, Kigali, Lagos, Addis Ababa, and Johannesburg, to name a few—that are dynamic, diverse, and more traveler-ready than ever. Find more inspiration here.

Now in its seventh year, the annual TPG Awards celebrate the best in loyalty and travel, highlighting the airlines, hotels, credit cards and rewards programs changing the way we explore the world.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brandon Chia, 31, a nurse in the South Island of New Zealand. Chia moved from Singapore to New Zealand in 2022. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

Nov 25, 2024 • 5 min read