Mongolia. Greenland. Senegal. Sicily.
23.10.2024 - 14:11 / insider.com
With travel gradually returning to pre-COVID-19 levels, the possibilities of where and how far you'll go in 2025 are endless.
To help jump-start your travel wish list for the upcoming year, a team of experts from Lonely Planet curated a list of the top 10 must-visit destinations worldwide.
In 2025, vacation-goers will prefer to explore quieter, lesser-known cities over popular tourist hot spots, according to a travel trend report from Expedia. In the company's annual survey, almost two-thirds of travelers said they would likely visit an under-the-radar destination on their next vacation.
In line with this trend, Lonely Planet's list features cities that aren't global tourist hot spots yet but promise a memorable trip, including Pondicherry, a coastal city in South India, and Bansko in Bulgaria. They appear in the list alongside crowd favorites like Osaka, Japan.
From the pristine white-sand beaches of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to the lush botanical gardens in Curitiba, Brazil, here are the top 10 cities to visit in 2025, according to Lonely Planet.
Mongolia. Greenland. Senegal. Sicily.
Oct 23, 2024 • 5 min read
Oct 23, 2024 • 5 min read
The best time to visit Madrid varies, and it depends on what you're looking for on your trip to Spain. Poolside lounging and people-watching in plazas under guaranteed sunshine is possible between mid-spring and early autumn, but the height of summer can make outdoor sightseeing a little unbearable. Madrid’s restaurants are fabulous year-round, and the food scene is thriving like never before, but there’s a charm to scouring the local markets and following fellow foodies as they spill into sprawling parks to tuck in either side of the midday sun. Here, we run through the seasonal highlights of the Spanish capital, explaining why it’s possible to uncover a new side to the city every month of the year.
Oct 18, 2024 • 10 min read
Oct 18, 2024 • 5 min read
“As far back as I can remember, I knew I was different,” says Alexander Smalls. Growing up in a Gullah Geechee household in Spartanburg, North Carolina, the chef says he recognized the implication of those differences—in appearance, history, and cuisine. “I discovered early that my friends did not eat any of the foods that I ate. My foods were more akin to West Africa, you know, and very much pronounced in that way,” he says. It wan't until he moved to New York as an adult, that he assimilated the value of that diasporic connective tissue. “Food was a big part of cultural expression and identity of the African diaspora,” he says.
While passport application and renewal delays are over and traveling internationally is—for the most part—easier than ever, did you know it’s totally possible to hop on a plane to a white-sand beach or streets that feel just like Spain with just your driver's license in hand? The best places to travel without a passport are within reach. You just need to know where to look. And one of the best options American travelers have at hand are the US territories.
Oct 17, 2024 • 5 min read
Whether your cinematic tastes tend more toward spine-tingling suspense, bloody gore, cheesy horror, or light-hearted fantasy, watching spooky movies is one of the best ways to get into the Halloween spirit. Since we can’t quite hop aboard flying broomsticks of our own and travel directly into the worlds of such films, visiting halloween movie filming locations in real-life is the next best thing. Although these destinations can be visited any time of the year, planning your “location vacation” during October often comes with special seasonal perks, like film screenings and even whole town transformations into their on-screen counterparts.
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts is introducing its Microtel by Wyndham Brand to India – its eighth brand in the country – through a development agreement with NILE Hospitality.
Foreign visitor spending in Japan in the first nine months of this year surpassed 2023’s full-year record of JPY 5.3 trillion ($35 billion).