The Province

Which places do the travel experts recommend?

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Here’s a list of top destinatio­n lists from expert sources across the travel industry, from guidebook and magazine publishers to travel agents, tour operators and websites.

LONELY PLANET

Top 10 U.S. destinatio­ns: Asheville, N.C.; Western Washington; Lincoln, Neb.; California’s southern desert region; Montana’s Flathead Valley; Atlanta; New York’s Adirondack Mountains; Texas Hill Country wine region; Denver; Florida’s “Emerald Coast”

Top 10 countries: Canada; Colombia; Finland; Dominica; Nepal; Bermuda; Mongolia; Oman; Myanmar; Ethiopia

Top 10 cities: Bordeaux, France; Cape Town, South Africa; Los Angeles; Merida, Mexico; Ohrid, Macedonia; Pistoia, Italy; Seoul, South Korea; Lisbon, Portugal; Moscow; Portland, Ore.

FROMMER’S

Montreal; Karasjok, Norway; Bermuda; The Pantanal, South America; Mississipp­i River; Paris; Sulawesi, Indonesia; San Francisco; Fatima, Portugal; Nashville; Panama Canal; Nan Madol, Micronesia; Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda; Germany; Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Maine; Haida Gwaii, B.C.; Doha, Qatar; Cuba

THRILLIST

Houston; Salt Lake City; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Miami; Las Vegas; Chattanoog­a, Tenn.; Cincinnati; Nashville; Atlanta; Chicago; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Orlando, Fla.; Portland, Ore.; Columbus, Ohio

AFAR MAGAZINE

First 10 on a list of 100 destinatio­ns: Skala Sikaminias, Greece; Bermuda; West Sweden; Okinawa, Japan; Kyushu, Japan; Hokkaido, Japan; Arizona; Puerto Rico; Singapore; Buenos Aires

U.S. destinatio­ns: Asheville, N.C.; Marfa, Texas; Portland, Ore.; Yolo County, Calif.; Haines, Alaska; New Orleans; Black Rock City, Nev.; Nashville; Park City, Utah; Santa Barbara, Calif.; Chicago; Philadelph­ia; The Catskills, N.Y.; Los Angeles; Cape Cod, Mass.; Pittsburgh

U.S. TOUR OPERATORS ASSOCIATIO­N

Top “hot” destinatio­ns: Cuba, Italy, Iceland, United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, China, Vietnam

Top emerging or off-the-beaten-path destinatio­ns: Cuba, Iceland, Croatia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Myanmar, Iran, South Africa and Morocco, Cambodia and India

TRAVEL LEADERS (TRAVEL AGENTS)

Domestic destinatio­ns: Orlando; Maui, Hawaii; New York City; Las Vegas; Alaska cruise; Honolulu; Los Angeles; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Miami.

Internatio­nal destinatio­ns: Caribbean cruise; Cancun, Mexico; London; European river cruise; Rome; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; Paris; Mediterran­ean cruise; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Playa del Carmen/Riviera Maya, Mexico

TRAVEL + LEISURE MAGAZINE

North America: Montreal; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Baja Wine Country, Mexico; Veracruz, Mexico; Indianapol­is; Cincinnati; Honolulu; Nashville; Norfolk, Va.; Philadelph­ia; Jackson Hole, Wyo.; Tofino, B.C.; Bermuda

South America: Salta, Argentina; La Paz, Bolivia; Angra dos Reis, Brazil; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Nicaragua; Panama City, Panama; Pisco, Peru; Montevideo, Uruguay

Africa: Okavango Delta, Botswana; Tamouda Bay, Morocco; Cape Town, South Africa; Madagascar; Rwanda; Seychelles

Asia/Middle East: Cambodian Coast, Cambodia; Hampi, India; Kanazawa, Japan; Jerusalem; Al Jabal Akhdar, Oman; Suzhou, China; Laos

Oceania: Noosa, Australia; Perth, Australia; Queenstown, New Zealand

Europe: Helsinki, Finland; Jura, France; Provence, France; Hamburg, Germany; Paros, Greece; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Turin, Italy; Rotterdam, Netherland­s; Oslo, Norway; Belgrade, Serbia; Malaga, Spain; Lake Lucerne, Switzerlan­d; Devon, U.K.

FODOR’S

Helsinki, Finland; Hokkaido, Japan; Lima, Peru; Canada’s national parks; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Medellin, Colombia; Aarhus, Denmark; Madagascar; Cyprus; Hong Kong; Oaxaca, Mexico; Edinburgh, Scotland; Alaska; Saxony, Germany; Wellington, New Zealand; Marfa, Texas; Kyiv, Ukraine; Laos; Denver; Minho region, Portugal; Yorkshire, England; Washington, D.C.; Bordeaux, France; Cape Town, South Africa; Antigua and Barbuda

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