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While the Tour de France included it as a flagship stage of its next edition when the 2025 route was announced on October 29, the famous tourist guide estimated that Toulouse would be the most popular urban destination of the year. next.
France will remain a major tourist destination in 2025, even if the Olympic and Paralympic Games are now a thing of memory. It is not towards Paris, but towards Toulouse that travelers’ eyes should be turned. Lonely Planet considered it the most essential city break, ahead of global tourist bastions such as Chiang Mai (Thailand), Genoa (Italy), or even the capital of the island of Majorca, Palma (Spain). “Bold works displayed in repurposed industrial buildings, lively cafés, first-rate cuisine and an invitation to stroll along the sunny banks of the Garonne and canals make the “pink city” an attractive weekend getaway. end”, comments the Lonely Planet. Toulouse will be even more in the spotlight during the summer as the Tour de France will stop there on July 14. The peloton will even have a day of rest there.
Remember that to compose this traditional list which is the subject of a publication entitled “The Best of Travel 2025”, the Anglo-Saxon guide surveys each of its investigators who travel the four corners of the world to update the different editions. “They report different elements to us. It may be the upcoming organization of an event. They may also have noticed an improvement in transport networks, or else have spotted communication around a region in a country that is nevertheless very Let us add that destinations are also called “trendy” because they correspond to the spirit of the times,” Dominique Bovet, editorial director of Lonely Planet, explained to us.
However, France only shines through Toulouse in this list, which gives more pride of place to wide open spaces such as Cameroon, designated a trendy country for traveling in 2025, or the coast of South Carolina and Georgia ( United States), in pole position in the regions category.
Here is the complete list of Best of 2025 from Lonely Planet:
Country
- Cameroon
- Lithuania
- Fiji
- Laos
- Kazakhstan
- Paraguay
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Vanuatu
- Slovakia
- Armenia
Regions
- The coast of South Carolina and Georgia (United States)
- Terai (Nepal)
- Chiriqui (Panama)
- Launceston and the Tamar Valley (Australia)
- Valais (Switzerland)
- Giresun and Ordu (Türkiye)
- Bavaria (Germany)
- East Anglia (United Kingdom)
- Jordan Trail (Jordan)
- Mount Hood and Columbia Gorges (United States)
Cities
- Toulouse (France)
- Puducherry (India)
- Bansko (Bulgaria)
- Chiang Mai (Thailand)
- Genoa (Italy)
- Pittsburgh (United States)
- Osaka (Japan)
- Curitiba (Brazil)
- Palma (Spain)
- Edmonton (Canada)