5 Hottest Places To Travel In 2020 For Your Best Vacations
In less than a month we will be in a new year, and for many of us, that means a reload of our vacation days. If you've got kids, it means another spring break and assorted school vacations. For all of us, it means another spring, fall, summer and winter, so no matter what your leisure preferences, schedule or the type of travel you enjoy, it means another year full of exciting possibilities.
Some destinations never get old, and when you look at consumer surveys of dream trips, Italy is usually at the top of the list, always popular and hard to argue against. Hawaii is another evergreen dream destination. At the opposite end of the spectrum are places that become like candles, burning brightly but quickly. Just a few months ago USA Today ran this headline: "Iceland was the hottest tourist destination: what happened?" In this case, one of the explanations is that visitors who were lured by the proximity (Europe's closest country) and the many (accurately) gorgeous Instagram photos they had seen, went with little knowledge of cuisine (eh) or just how expensive it was (very).
But for as long as I have been covering travel, a quarter of a century, there has always been an Iceland of the moment, a place that gets hot from media buzz rather than concrete reasons. If you haven't been to Italy or Hawaii, by all means go, but if you are looking for something new, consider the places that are emerging as the new timely hotspots. There are limitless great possibilities when it comes to travel and you should go wherever your heart takes you - it's not a Place A is "better" than Place B thing. But there is also an argument for being ahead of the curve, and when you see lists of heavily over-touristed spots such as Venice, Bali and Barcelona, you can't help but wish you had gone years ago - when they first became "hot."
