Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2024

Gifted to my wife. Good curation of places to visit with local insights.

They put so much in the book there's really nothing much of anything in it. They don't include any cities in the middle east. It ranks Nairobi as the number one city. I think Kenya is a beautiful country for safaris but I would never rank Nairobi a number one city in the world. Where is Cape Town? Kansas City is another top city, I've been there and I can tell you there's not much to do. They took up half a page for a map. Meanwhile the only photo for Poland is a photo of a bison, what? hardly something the average tourist will see. They also wasted half a page for a useless map of Paris.

Vengo coleccionando este libro desde su aparicion en 2015 lo super recomiendo !!!!!

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This Lonely Planet guide provides inspiration for travel experiences during 2024 and is an excellent way to pick out your next destination. The book is split down into five chapters of ‘Top 10s’ including countries, cities, regions, sustainable and best value places across the world.This breakdown of the book makes it easy to digest, with the countries, cities and regions sections each having 6 pages dedicated to it with plenty visual cues and highlights (the best value and sustainable destinations only had a page per place). I thought there was a good amount of information and that the beautifully selected photographs maintain interest throughout. It has a clear contents page / index and is easy to navigate with easy to read, clear print.The book is a hardback with 224 pages and measures 17.3cm x 22.9cm with a thickness of 2.2cm so is relatively large / heavy and therefore not ideal for travelling with, instead this is the perfect coffee table book which features a lovely bright graphic on the cover. However, it does have a QR code included so you can read it on a phone or tablet whilst travelling. One small niggle is that it doesn’t have a paper cover to protect it so it may become scuffed over time.I do think it’s a good idea to create a book highlighting places across the world that have a genuine reason to visit them in 2024. For example, 2024 is the year that Paris is hosting the Olympics during the summer months, but I didn’t think there was necessarily enough reason to choose the majority of the places to visit specifically during 2024. However, each place includes ‘highlights to be visited’, ‘getting there’, ‘when to go’ and ‘recommended further reading’ within each segment which makes it easy to plan and gives good insight to the places.Priced at £11.03 at the time reviewing, this is a nice book with suggestions for travelling in the year ahead and although it does lack a bit of focus at times, I would still recommend the book as it a good resource for ideas and it would also make a lovely gift for a keen explorer.

This is an attractive, well-sized hardback. The pages are a good thickness and glossyJust to make it clear, this book is well made physically.A lot of work has clearly gone into putting this all together. The publisher has been doing this for a long time, and they are clearly very good at it. The content is split into several top 10 lists: top 10 countries, regions, cities, and also the more specialised cetegories of top 10 best value and top 10 sustainable. I think, considering the wide scope of this book, this is a decent way of approaching it.In terms of layout and design, it's excellent throughout. Loads of very nice relevant pictures, and the right amount of text (in my opinion). The writing I think both gives you a general feel or impression of the locations, as well as some specific hints and ideas. There are also various boxes with information such as how to get there, or the top highlights.All in all, a well made book that basically does a good job of covering a very broad topic!

Overall its a quality made attractive looking hardback book. But your best to not judge a book by its cover, so I will comment on the contents.Different travel books aim at a different market and Lonely Planet typically aim at the wealthy metropolitan elite. Our family tends to buy more "Rough Guides" and "Wild Publishing" books for holidays.There is no real depth of knowledge displayed in any of the places referenced. Its more a kind of display of ideas for people who don't have many ideas of their own.For example, we went to Morocco as a family last year. It goes on about the FIFA world cup, but I don't think that has any relevance. The photos are very poorly selected. Most are of doors, or pots which you could find across many countries. There is one of a beach which could easily be near Cardiff. A photo of a modern tram could be Milan. Why not photos of a Mosque or red walls of Marrakesh with the Atlas mountains behind? Pictures that are unique to the country. You don't go to Morocco for surfing and festivals. If you want that, you could do that in Wales or Somerset.Perhaps in wealthy metropolitan elite circles Paris is a top 10, but frankly the mix of riots, rats, arrogance and lack of family friendly cost effective options makes it one of the least desirable Cities in Europe.How does the Top 10 regions include Tuscany? Nice but not exactly a secret, or cost effective. Sure I understand many millionaires have houses there, but there are far more regions in Italy that are more attractive and genuine - say Piemonte or Sardinia.Top sustainable - Sure Wales is very sustainable, but seriously how is it remotely sustainable to go to Japan, Ecuador, Argentina or Greenland? You would pump out more CO2 in the return flight than 50 car trips to Wales. The most sustainable thing would be to stay in Europe.For most normal working families I would concentrate on getting guide books that focus directly on making the most of viable places.I think this book would appeal most to young, single, metropolitan, people with considerable disposable income and who lack imagination and/or time. Ideal for them to just put on a coffee table virtue signal that they are a "citizen of the World".