Where to go in 2018
Many a guidebook and magazine believes it can forecast next year's hot spots, but with such a diverse set of predictions, they can't all be correct - can they?
It’s that time of year again. Guidebook publishers, travel companies and, er, interior design magazines are revealing their chosen destinations for 2018. Experts have crunched the data and come up with a roll-call of happening holiday spots. Some are on the verge of being discovered by a wider audience, others are hosting high-profile international events. Value-for-money bolt-holes share the spotlight with places that have suffered economic hardship, war, or both.
If you don’t see your favourite below, be thankful that it may remain a sleepy backwater – at least until the entire exercise is repeated in 12 months’ time.
1 Frommer’s
Staff at Frommer’s appear to have been throwing darts into a world map on the office wall as a way of coming up with their “Best Places to Go in 2018”. A random trio leads the list – in fact, the (English) Lake District, Nicaragua and Mauritius might not have been mentioned in the same sentence until now. Visit all three before international twinning associations start getting ideas.
Writers and editors at the long-running guidebook publisher also recommend a train ride (Switzerland), a river (the Mekong) and a coffee-growing region in Colombia. It’s good to see caffeine back as the drug of choice in the South American country.