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New year, new travel plans. If you are anything like us at Wanderlust Towers, you will have made the resolution to o travel even more this year. To T make your decisions easier (or maybe harder!), we have compiled our annual shortlist of o best new trips from some of the most respected tour operators around. Turn to page 54 for a wealth of inspiration and start plotting. I’ll definitely be going to Georgia this year (find out how to join me on p88), but my own wishlist for f the next couple of years now includes the Maldives (p108), Kwazulu Natal (p38) and El Salvador (p126), having read each of the articles in this issue. e My personal New Year’s resolution is not to get so jealous of the trips that our writers take, but I fear I won’t stick to that!

Another of our New Year’s resolutions was to ditch plastic as much as possible, so huge thanks to o our friends at G Adventures, who w are sponsoring the eco-friendly packaging of o our subscription copies. We’ve had lots of lovely comments from you on the wrapping already, as well as fabulous feedback on the e magazine’s new look. Thank T you.

Have a great start to your travel year. And we hope to see some of you at the upcoming London travel shows, too. t