This is part of our global guide to the best places to go in 2024. Find more travel inspiration for next year, organized by continent, here.
When we think about the destinations that most excite us in 2024, there is a sense of overarching possibility.
The pandemic’s impact on our travels finally disappeared when the last region of Asia fully reopened its borders earlier this year. As travelers, we can now set our sights on the most remote adventures, dust off our bucket lists, and often return to the places we love and miss. The world remains an unpredictable and complex place in many ways. But when we realize that travel is the ultimate luxury, we are forced to ask questions like: What should we do with our enviable power to traverse the globe in 2024? Where should we go first?
There are plenty of compelling reasons to travel to far-flung locations over the coming year. Emerging boutique hotels, wellness resorts, and expedition cruises are being forced to carefully consider what it means to be relevant and exciting, as well as sustainable, as new services compete for traveler bookings. It is being Destinations look at everything from pioneering ecotourism efforts to restorative land management efforts, telling Indigenous communities stories that connect past and future. What about us travelers? We can choose for ourselves.
We teamed up with Condé Nast Traveler editors from around the world to help you find travel value during your vacation. For months, we’ve been researching, discussing and scouring a wide range of amazing cities, regions and countries with new reasons to visit. The result is the definitive guide to the 24 best places to go in 2024. The guide includes an extraordinary super bloom in a new national park in Chile, an up-close encounter with wildlife with an Inuit guide in Canada, and exciting community-driven dining. Destination: Rwanda. This complete list is a huge challenge to narrow down, but it reflects how big, beautiful, diverse, and ever-changing our world is.
Here are 24 places we think should be on the attention of every traveler over the coming year. I can’t wait to see where you all go. —Arati Menon and Megan Sparrell
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Best places to go in 2024
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