Holiday Gift Guide 2023: The Best Travel Gadgets For Tech Lovers

Japan is already primed and ready to be the hottest travel destination in 2024.

Either you love pasta or you love pasta. And pasta lovers are dedicated to their starchy passion. Whether it’s edible, wearable or decorative, if it’s pasta, it’s on brand. For the giftee whose entire identity is pasta, here’s what to give a gluten glutton this season:

Compelling books on travel inspire readers to not only learn about destinations and cultures across the globe, but also, lock in that bucket list trip they’ve been dreaming about. As most travelers can attest, exploring a new locale keeps the brain sharp, curiosities peaked, and humanity intact. Much may be gleaned through reading the memoirs, poems, and true tales of adventurers; seeing beautiful photography; and following writers down the rabbit hole, through verdant valleys, and up and over mountain peaks.

Know someone who feels perpetually drawn to America’s most beautiful spaces? Treat them to a National Park-themed gift for the holidays. From hand-drawn maps to outdoor apparel, these gifts will keep National Park enthusiasts connected to the most cherished landscapes in the country. Some of these treasures might even put new parks on their radar, inspiring their next adventure in the great outdoors.

When it comes to single malt whiskey, America has been, fittingly, like the Wild West. Sure, there are some basic rules that everyone follows—the whiskey must be produced from malted barley at a single distillery in the United States—but after that things have been wide open.

Disney and travel just go together! Whether travelers love visiting the Disney theme parks, enjoy having an adventure on a private island during a trip with Disney Cruise Line, or long for a European river cruise from Adventures By Disney, they can experience the magic of Disney all over the world. While the Disney enthusiast in your life satiates their wanderlust, help them enjoy their journeys in style with these fun gifts. There’s something that’s sure to inspire joy for every kind of Disney traveler on your list.

For the boldest explorers, notable achievements in exploration include firsts in reaching the highest, deepest and furthest points on Earth. Locations such as the North Pole, South Pole, Mount Everest, the deepest point on earth, the Mariana trench and the surface of the moon. For those defined by their legacy of polar exploration, these are the best luxury gifts for polar explorers.

Taking a much-needed vacation shouldn’t come with hassle, but let’s face it—every traveler faces a little bit of stress at some point during the journey. That’s where a stress-relieving travel gift can help this holiday season. From innovative suitcases and smart luggage tags to on-the-go styling tools and self-care products, these travel gift ideas can help globetrotters navigate the challenges of exploring the world and look and feel their very best, no matter what a trip throws their way.

Pushing the limits of wilderness exploration can mean extreme weather conditions, hours or days spent outdoors, and lots of pulling and hauling, all to achieve an extraordinary experience. The products you wear, use and carry can be like superpowers that put impossible journeys within reach. Here are the best luxury gifts for exploring the great outdoors:

Taylor Swift has set pretty much every record in the book this year, thanks to her unprecedented Eras Tour. The three and a half hour extravaganza covers 17 years of her music and fans are traveling around the world to experience it in person.

Whether the person you’re shopping for this holiday season has been a longtime devotee or is a new fan of hallyu—which translates to “Korean wave”—the global obsession with South Korea and its creative industries, from film to skincare, is undeniable. Because there are so many options out there, refer to this handy and well-curated gift guide of Korean experiences and items.

The highest echelon of hotels know how to take an experience and bed it into something that lives on in the heart. The world’s finest perfumiers do a remarkably similar job. So it’s fitting that - increasingly - the two are coming together as hoteliers create brilliantly evocative scents - and perfumiers pay homage to their favorite hotels creating an experiential circle of glorious memories.