Experts estimate that by 2024, travelers would shift their focus away from popular locations such as London and Paris, and towards big Asian cities.
This month, TripAdvisor revealed its Travelers’ Choice Best of the Best Destination Awards, ranking the top trending destinations for 2024.
The rating was established based on the quality and number of reviews from global tourists for lodgings, restaurants, and “things to do” made on Tripadvisor between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023.
Tripadvisor ranks Tokyo as the top trending destination for 2024.
Japan was one of the last countries to remove border limits following the Covid-19 outbreak, and now that they are open again, people are lining up to visit the country.
According to Airbnb data, Tokyo ranks among the top 24 global locations for non-US travelers this year.
According to Airbnb, search traffic for vacations in Japan has more than tripled in the first nine months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, the most rise of any country.
Tokyo, Japan, is a highly livable city with the world’s tallest tower, the Tokyo Skytree.
As of 2023, Tokyo hosts 41 headquarters of Fortune Global 500 firms.
Seoul, South Korea is the second most popular global destination this year.
Euromonitor International ranked the city as one of the most visited Asian cities in 2023.
Flight bookings to Seoul rose 191% this year, more than doubling from 2022, according to a Trip.com spokesman.
- Tokyo, Japan
- Seoul, South Korea
- Halong Bay, Vietnam
- Palawan Island, Philippines
- Sapa, Vietnam
- Bogota, Colombia
- Pattaya, Thailand
- Alajuela, Costa Rica
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia