15 best places to visit in 2023, according to this travel guide

San Biagio mountain on the Tyrrhenian sea coast is located near Maratea in Italy, one of the top destinations to check out in 2023. — Dreamstime/TNS

Cue the wanderlust! Frommer’s travel editors have gone big with its annual “Best Places To Go” list, which includes destinations around the world.

After two years of domestic travel recommendations – while grappling with understaffed airports, flight delays and high petrol prices – the publication is declaring itself (cautiously) optimistic about this far-flung roster of cities, countries and regions on six continents.

The 15 destinations run the full gamut from white sand beaches to historic splendours. Some offer an alternative to over-touristed regions – head for Italy’s coastal Maratea, they say, which lies 177km south of the famous and very crowded Amalfi Coast.

Some offer major celebrations – Lithuania’s Vilnius is turning 700, for example. And some – including Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula – will offer new, streamlined ways to travel next year. The first phase of a US$10bil (RM44.8bil) rail project, a “train through the jungle” route that will ultimately link Cancun, Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Chichen Itza, is set to open in late 2023. – Tribune News Services

Frommer’s 15 best places to go in 2023

1. The Virgin Islands
2. Tokyo, Japan
3. San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain
4. Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument, Colorado, US
5. Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
6. Karnataka, India
7. Athens, Greece
8. Oahu, Hawaii
9. Maratea, Italy
10. Uruguay
11. Macon, Georgia, US
12. Exmouth, Western Australia
13. Dawson City, Canada
14. West Africa (via the Expedition Ship cruise)
15. Vilnius, Lithuania