Just like any other lifestyle obsession, travel has its fashions and trends.
Every year, the establishment provides a collection of lists detailing where we should go in the next 12 months.
We’re not sure how they’re selected. It could be the authoritative combination of exhaustive knowledge and prescience. Then again, it might just be pins stuck blindly into maps.
So what are the hottest destinations for 2013 according to the most respected travel publications on the planet? We’ve scoured the pages so you don’t have to.
- San Francisco
- Amsterdam
- Hyderabad
- Londonderry/Derry
- Beijing
- Christchurch
- Hobart
- Montreal
- Addis Ababa
- Puerto Iguazu
Travel + Leisure – Hottest travel destinations of 2013
- Bahia Ballena
- Basilicata
- Puerto Rico
- Minneapolis
- Reunion
- Philippines
- Nepal
- Charlevoix
- Uco Valley
- Zambia
- Amsterdam
- Gold Coast
- Marseilles
National Geographic Traveler – Best Trips 2013
- Crimea
- Marseille
- Raja Ampat
- Ravenna
- Great Bear Rainforest
- Malawi
- Quito
- Bagan
- Cape Breton
- Uganda
- Hudson Valley
- Thessaloniki
- Grenada
- Bodo
- Valparaiso
- Missouri River, Montana
- St Augustine
- Memphis
- Kyoto
- Jarash
Ethical Traveler – The World’s Ten Best Ethical Destinations 2013
- Barbados
- Cape Verde
- Costa Rica
- Ghana
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Mauritius
- Palau
- Samoa
- Uruguay
Rough Guides – Travel Hot List 2013
- Stockholm
- Dubrovnik
- Kosice
- Dresden
- Northeast Iceland
- Margate
- Valparaiso
- Puerto Rico
- Nowhere (festival)
- Albuquerque
- Amsterdam
- Azores Islands
- Botswana
- Brooklyn
- Easter Island
- England
- Germany
- Gettysburg
- Ireland
- Istanbul
- Maldives
- Marseille
- Mexico City
- Montenegro
- Myanmar
- New Orleans
- New Zealand
- Osa Peninsula
- Portland
- Samana Peninsula
- Sardinia
- Seville
- Slovenia
- Walt Disney World
What do you think? What places have these publications missed? And which places aren’t worth the hype? Tweet us @Cheapflights.
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