Time magazine has released this year’s World’s Greatest Places, comprising 50 destinations travellers should put on their bucket list this year.
To compile the list, the magazine asked its international network of correspondents and contributors to nominate their favourite destinations, keeping an “eye toward those offering new and exciting experiences”.
Steeper costs and increased interest in sustainability and authenticity are reshaping the landscape.
Time magazine
While travel is coming back with a swing after the pandemic, paradigms have also changed, people looking mire for experiences, authenticity and sustainability than a few years ago. The long awaited opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, expected to finally open its doors this year, helped place Giza and Saqqara on the list, while Dijon took 10th place thanks to its new wine and gastronomy hub.
“Some of the destinations are enforcing more sustainable tourism practices to protect their natural beauty; Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia is moving toward allowing only one foreign visitor per local resident. Others are thriving, growing, and changing, like the city of Medellín, Colombia, which has blossomed into a culturally vibrant metropolis in the years since Pablo Escobar’s death”, the magazine explains.
Without any further ado, these are the greatest places to visit this year:
1. Tampa, Florida
2. Willamette Valley, Oregon
3. Río Grande, Puerto Rico
4. Tucson, Arizona
5. Yosemite National Park, California
6. Bozeman, Montana
7. Washington, DC
8. Vancouver, Canada
9. Churchill, Canada
10. Dijon, France
- Pantelleria, Italy
- Naples, Italy
- Aarhus, Denmark
- St Moritz, Switzerland
- Timisoara, Romania
- Sylt, Germany
- Berat, Albania
- Budapest, Hungary
- Vienna, Austria
- Barcelona, Spain
- Brisbane, Australia
- Kangaroo Island, Australia
- Dominica
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Guadalajara, Mexico
- Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
- Pantanal, Brazil
- Medellín, Colombia
- Ollantaytambo, Peru
- Roatán, Honduras
- Kyoto, Japan
- Nagoya, Japan
- Isan, Thailand
- Phuket, Thailand
- Jeju Island, South Korea
- Luang Prabang, Laos
- Ladakh, India
- Mayurbhanj, India
- Giza and Saqqara, Egypt
- Chyulu Hills, Kenya
- Ruhengeri, Rwanda
- Rabat, Morocco
- Dakar, Senegal
- Loango National Park, Gabon
- Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone
- The Red Sea, Saudi Arabia
- Aqaba, Jordan
- Jerusalem
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia
