AM: We put a call out to our writers and contributors to pitch us what they think will be the most exciting destination in 2024, anchored with really, well, newsy news.
SJ: This is the first year we’ve really tried to take this list and make it sort of really robust all across the world, wherever you are, if you are in Australia, when you’re not leaving that part of the world in 2024, there’s still so many places on this list that you can go to. We have teams in Spain, Dubai, India getting those recommendations that only a local person would know really, like rooting down into a destination and finding the coffee shop or the artist that, that our readers would love to hear about and love to be inspired by.
AM: We’re talking about 2024, and each of these destinations is in one way or another, some louder, others quieter, but are having their moment in 2024.
SJ: I was just gonna say the other thing. All of these places offer luxury and that doesn’t necessarily mean swanky new hotels, although sometimes it does. It might mean the luxury of taking your time slow traveling somewhere, or getting into nature and exploring a landscape. I think all of them have to offer that kind of exceptional, incredible opportunity for the traveler that they want to grab hold of.
AM: We have a process and a framework, and are very clear about why we are picking what we are picking and the fact that we are all signed on to this sort of vision mission of picking the most diverse. And again, not just geographically diverse, it’s also a sort of diversity of some of these milestones. So it’s not just the big luxury openings, it’s the, it’s the launch of, uh, of a new, uh, but very historic cycling route. Or it’s the ability to traverse a landscape previously inaccessible or it… Or sometimes it’s just a waterfront park that is gonna allow you to, um, explore and experience the city differently. Or an camp track, train route that connects two very important Southern American cities that haven’t been connected for years. So, it really is about offering people opportunities in that sort of, in their backyards but further afield and things that are not just sort of fancy and expensive and bucket listy.
LA: I’m really glad that you said not fancy and expected and bucket listy.
AM: Does anyone say fancy anymore?
LA: I say fancy. [laughs]
SJ: Fancy.
LA: But I mean, I was gonna say this might be the wrong crowd, so, um, [laughs] to test that one. Um, but I say fancy and you know, Condé Nast Traveler, we’re known for having a lot of fancy places on our website and in our magazine.
SJ: Yeah.
LA: But I had… When, you know, when I was preparing for this, I had jotted down a bunch of things I wanted to talk to you both about and budget and accessibility from like a budget perspective as one of them for me, you know, when you’re plotting out the year and where you want to go, there’s firstly, there’s only so many vacation days and, you know, you are kind of within the limits of your own kind of financial boundaries.
