Get ready to book! Here are Travel + Leisure’s 50 Best Places to Travel in 2020

NEW YORK — Where to travel to in 2020? Oh, let us count the destinations.

Travel + Leisure has released its 50 Best Places to Travel in 2020 featuring the year’s most highly anticipated destinations, according to its editors.

Now available on TravelandLeisure.com, this year’s global list ranges from exotic locales in Asia and Africa, to seven cities across the United States.

“Travel + Leisure’s annual list of Best Places to Travel is the ultimate resource for singling out the go-to vacation spots for the new year,” said Jacqui Gifford, Editor in Chief. “Whether you’re exploring new locations or seeing your favourites places in a new light, the destinations on our list are some of the most compelling across the globe right now. This list is a welcome reminder of all the things that inspire us to travel in the first place.”

To narrow each year’s list to just 50 places, Travel + Leisure’s editors pool their industry knowledge and consult trusted travel writers and travel agents around the world.

Here are the 2020 picks:

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ASIA

Beijing, China
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kyoto, Japan
Singapore
Songyang County, China
Sri Lanka
Rajasthan, India
Taiwan’s Mountains

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North Island, New Zealand

AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA

Brisbane, Australia
North Island, New Zealand
Tasmania

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Klitmøller, Denmark

EUROPE

Austria
The Douro River, Portugal
Klitmøller, Denmark
Lille, France
Manchester, U.K.
North Macedonia
Paros, Greece
Rijeka, Croatia
Rome’s EUR District
Tbilisi, Georgia

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Durban, South Africa

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Botswana
Caesarea, Israel
Doha, Qatar
Dubai
Durban, South Africa
Istanbul
Malawi
Rwanda

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Jalisco, Mexico

NORTH AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

Asheville, North Carolina
Baja Sur’s East Cape, Mexico
Barbados
Big Island, Hawaii
Boston
California’s Central Coast
Maine
Dominica
Jalisco, Mexico
New Brunswick, Canada
Oklahoma City
St. Bart’s
The Great Lakes
Turks & Caicos

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Kaieteur National Park, Guyana

SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA

Arequipa, Peru
Chilean Lakes District
Costa Rica
Guyana
Maldonado Department, Uruguay
Quito, Ecuador