⮊ Canary Islands and Seville. Photographer: Gabriela Herman for Bloomberg Businessweek | ⮊ Portillo. Photographer: Pia Vergara | ⮊ Jaipur. Source: Raffles Hotels and Resorts | ⮊ Casa de Brasa at Four Seasons Resort Los Cabos at Costa Palmas. Source: Costa Palmas
As much as travel writers hate to admit it, nowhere on Earth is actually “new.”
So, then, how are we to create a list that offers fresh temptations for ambitious explorers? Typically we find ourselves inspired by corners of the globe that have long been enticing—but feel full of fresh upgrades—and by the quiet locales that have been to many hiding in plain sight. This year there are even places that haven’t been fully open to tourism for decades but that are slowly starting to embrace it as both an economic and cultural opportunity.
On the classic side are places such as Rome, Bangkok, London and New York, which are all getting massive infrastructure investments, big-time restaurant openings and long-awaited luxury hotels. Wildlife lovers will find uncharted frontiers in the Colombian Amazon and São Tomé and Príncipe—in fact, some call the latter “the Galápagos of Africa.” Most exciting, perhaps, are places like Greenland and Algeria: They are becoming newly accessible to travelers, thanks to recently built airports and groundbreaking shifts in visa accessibility.
Narrowing down the world’s biggest travel news to just 25 destinations is a year-round obsession here at Bloomberg Pursuits. And in keeping with previous editions of this guide, we’ve asked our most trusted travel planners to help you determine the best and worst times to visit each place, based on factors that include weather as well as festivals and events.
But this year we’ve added even more insights. Simply select your nearest city at the top of the page, and you’ll get personalized, month-by-month estimates for hotel and flight costs alongside each recommendation. Pulling this off took months of work with the data scientists at Kayak, who gathered billions—yes, billions!—of data points to make it all happen.
To compile flight and hotel prices for every month of the year to Bloomberg’s top destinations for 2025, Kayak considered 90 million data points for flights and 2.5 billion data points for hotels. Prices are expected to shift, especially for destinations where new routes and airports are coming online throughout the year.
Visit Kayak’s Best Time to Travel tool for live updates on flight price insights for the next 12 months.
Want to know the best time to fly to any of our desitinations? Choose a point of departure to see average flight prices.
