Travel is always top of mind in the New Year. Brimming with possibility as 2024 is, it's easy to drift off into daydreams about the adventures to come. Whether you’ve already planned this year's big trip a year in advance and have nothing left to do but twiddle your thumbs, or your next vacation is but a twinkle in your eye, travel is always on our minds.
For our editors who travel insatiably, both professionally and for pleasure, we have an array of travel plans ahead. Having spent the last year considering and compiling our list of Best Places to Go in 2024, with some of the world’s best new hotels, national parks. and more, we’ve gone into the year with a bevy of ideas. Read on to find out which trips our editors are most excited to take themselves on this year—from prospective surf trips to Mexico to train rides through the wilds of Malaysia.
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Executive editor Erin Florio will convene with far-flung old friends in Indonesia's Gili Islands.
"For three years, a group of close girlfriends and I have been discussing the need to take a reunion trip somewhere. But logistics are tricky. We are childhood friends, a tight group that grew up together, but now live across Singapore, London, New York, New Zealand, and Melbourne. A few of us are parents. Some have demanding work schedules. All of us have different budgetary and time restraints. Finally, some months ago, we decided we needed to get serious. We cross-referenced our kids school holidays (juggling calendars in different hemispheres), assessed our own budgets, preferences, and more, and MacGyvered the plan to travel to Indonesia’s pristine Gili Islands, thinking they could be a fit for us all. The plan now is to head there in early September. We have started looking at Airbnbs along the beach and discussed the possibility of doing some days on a phinisi boat (if you haven’t been on a phinisi in Gili, have you even been to Gili?). Full disclosure, we are yet to book anything. But this trip, three years in the making, has never felt closer to happening; I don’t think any one of us will let this momentum slip away. —Erin Florio, executive editor
“As a lovely Christmas gift, my mother booked my father, brother, and me on a four-day Backroads biking trip through the Hudson Valley and Catskills starting on Father’s Day. I know this realm of “upstate” fairly well, having spent four uneventful years of undergrad at a liberal arts college in the scenic riverside, and am always keen to return and soak up some more of its beauty. That coupled with a few days with my dad (I see my twin at least
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Mark your calendars: On April 8, 2024, a rare total solar eclipse will cut a path across the continent beginning with Mexico, passing through the US, and exiting through Canada. The line of totality for this celestial phenomenon will cross through 13 US states with some areas seeing a maximum totality of over four minutes (including Bloomington, Indiana, and Mesquite, Texas). So, there are plenty of chances to observe the eclipse as it arches from Texas to Maine, hitting Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire on the way.
International tourism will rise by 15% in 2024 from last year, according to data shared by United Nations World Tourism Organization Friday. In fact, it will also exceed 2019 levels by 2%.
If you’re an American traveler, you’ve likely done this sort of calendar math, spotting where all the paid holidays fall this year and figuring out how to combine them with your own limited paid time off (PTO).
London, Rome, Tokyo, Cancún and Las Vegas, some of the most visited destinations in 2023, are still among the top places travelers are searching to go to this year, according to the travel sites Kayak and Hopper.
China is addressing the bottlenecks that have restricted outbound travel from the country. But the enthusiasm among Chinese travelers to visit the U.S. is diminishing, according to the latest survey from China Trading Desk, a marketing technology company.
The passport you hold is a powerful tool when it comes to effortlessly visiting countries around the world.And some passports provide far more access than others, according to the Henley Passport Index.The just-released 2024 index shows that for the first time in 19 years of producing the ranking, six countries are tied for the top spot of having the most powerful passports.The countries leading the ranking are France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and Spain—meaning citizens from all of these countries are able to visit 194 destinations around the world either visa-free or by obtaining a visa-on-arrival.The Henley Passport Index is the only ranking of its kind and is developed based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA). The index compares 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations.While Japan and Singapore have made it into the number one slot for the past five years running, according to CNN, the European countries that are now also ranked number one on the list is a new development.
The leading lobbying group for the U.S. travel industry this week claimed inefficient policies like long tourist visa wait times and friction points like lagging security screening technology are causing the United States to lose its competitive edge when it comes to attracting international visitors — not high prices on airfare and hotel rates.
A passport is more than permission to travel across borders; holders of the world's most powerful passports have access to different ways of living that other passport holders do not. Heading into 2024, new data reveals not only the passports that give access to the most countries, but also where you might find a better quality of life.