From a 'plastic apocalypse' in Asia to a driving route in SCOTLAND - Fodor's travel guide reveals where NOT to go in 2025 (along with 25 top destinations to try instead)

Hold it close determination – don't property the 'pay now' fastener for that 2025 getaway conscionable yet.

Not until you've work the 2025 Fodor's Travel 'Go and No Lists', which uncover the places you should debar adjacent twelvemonth – and 25 'incredible' destinations worldwide you should see visiting instead.

The nary database comprises 'highly coveted tourer spots [that] are collapsing nether the load of their ain prominence' and look issues including overcrowding and biology stress.

Destinations connected this database see a paradise land that's go a 'plastic apocalypse', a driving way successful Scotland and places successful Europe wherever locals don't privation you.

So, debar them, says Fodor's Travel, and alternatively question to 1 of the 25 places connected the 'Go' list.

Fodor's Travel comments that these destinations are 'for those seeking unthinkable experiences that prioritise taste immersion and sustainable practices'.

Recommendations see 5 spots successful the USA, on with an 'under-the-radar outdoor stunner' successful Poland, a 'rugged country of Provence' and an 'oasis' successful New Zealand. Read connected for the afloat lists - volition you beryllium heeding the advice?

THE NO LIST

Scotland North Coast 500

'What happens erstwhile a roadworthy travel way becomes excessively popular, threatening the earthy situation and becoming a nuisance to the communities surviving alongside it?' says Fodor's. 

'The residents of Scotland's astir scenic roadworthy travel route, known arsenic the North Coast 500 (NC500), cognize lone excessively well.'

The usher explains: 'Camping successful tents oregon motorhomes is 1 of the astir fashionable ways for tourists to acquisition the NC500, but a shortfall of capable facilities including campsites, toilets, and designated chemic discarded areas is causing issues on the route. "Wild camping" connected beaches, successful laybys, and adjacent connected backstage spot is common, and residents study uncovering campfire scorch marks, trash, disposable grills, and adjacent quality faeces successful their wake.'

Bali, Indonesia

Fodor's says: 'Rapid, unchecked improvement spurred by overtourism is encroaching connected Bali's earthy habitats, eroding its biology and taste heritage, and creating a "plastic apocalypse".'

European destinations wherever the locals don't privation you - Barcelona, Mallorca, Venice, the Canary Islands and Lisbon

Fodor's notes that tourists successful the European hotspots of Barcelona, Mallorca, the Canary Islands, Venice and Lisbon are nary longer truthful welcome.

The usher explains that visitors are arriving successful specified numbers that they're 'clogging neighbourhoods' and 'altering the precise cloth of society'. How? 'By raising the outgo of living, straining infrastructure and earthy resources and homogenising cultures,' says Fodor's.

It adds: 'A bully tourism absorption strategy should marque contiguous improvements to the lives of locals.'

Koh Samui, Thailand

'Koh Samui has agelong suffered from overtourism,' says Fodor's, 'but erstwhile the caller play of The White Lotus premieres successful 2025, galore fearfulness for what volition go of the island.

'Experts interest the accrued postulation volition exacerbate existing problems connected the island. There are presently 200,000 tons of discarded sitting astatine a landfill beyond the sightline of tourer sites and luxurious villas, arsenic good arsenic rapid, often unregulated, caller improvement connected the mountainside.'

Mount Everest

'Everest, known locally arsenic Sagarmatha, Chomolungma, oregon Qomolangma, is simply a ineffable upland to the Sherpa community, but overtourism is adversely affecting section communities,' says Fodor's. 'It's besides degrading the situation and ruining travellers' experiences.'

British Virgin Islands

'The accent connected cruise tourism is keeping tourer dollars retired of residents' hands,' writes Fodor's, 'and the 13-year hold for a broad tourism program has near locals sceptical that improvements successful improvement and infrastructure are connected the horizon.'

Agrigento, Sicily

Fodor's says: 'The metropolis is preparing to beryllium the Italian Capital of Culture successful 2025, which volition apt mean an summation successful the fig of visitors. However, the country is facing a terrible h2o situation that could beryllium further aggravated by accrued tourism, and could irrevocably harm its astir precious taste treasures and punish its imperishable residents.'

Kerala, India

There's been a surge successful tourism successful coastal Kerala that's 'exacerbated the interaction of earthy disasters', says Fodor's, explaining that successful immoderate areas 'development has obstructed earthy h2o flows and accrued landslide risks'.

What's more, 'development is mostly unregulated, unsustainable, and harmful to communities and ecosystems'.

Oaxaca City, Mexico

Oaxacans are complaining, says Fodor's, that their 'culture and customs are being commercialised' by overtourism, with 'large wealthiness gaps and biology degradation' the result.

Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan

Tokyo and Kyoto are overrun with tourists, with Fodor's pointing retired that the word 'tourism pollution' has present emerged successful Japanese media.

One of the large issues it has caused is simply a emergence successful home question prices, arsenic tourists enactment successful concern hotels that past hike their prices.

What's more, says Fodor's, astatine immoderate Kyoto 'must-sees' specified arsenic Arashiyama, Kiyomizudera, and Fushimi Inari, it's not imaginable to 'walk comfortably' arsenic they're 'overwhelmed by crowds'.

THE GO LIST

USA 

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

'A onshore of unparalleled beauty.'

Houston, Texas

Houston is location to 'one of [America's] nation's largest concentrations of taste institutions', has 'cosy, section eateries' and outdoor enthusiasts 'can hike and motorcycle the trails of Buffalo Bayou Park'

Las Vegas, Nevada

'Bet connected this classical destination - with thing for divas, daredevils, and everyone successful between.'

Los Olivos, California

'SoCal meets cowboy chic close extracurricular Santa Barbara.'

Michigan's Beach Towns, Michigan

'Beach bliss on Michigan's seashore includes winery hopping and lighthouse visits by the country's largest freshwater lake.'

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST 

Hermanus, South Africa

'A seaside destination with the champion land-based whale watching successful the world.'

Kigali, Rwanda

'In Rwanda's superior city, culture, history, and modernity merge wrong scope of earthy wonders.'

Petra, Jordan

'Jordan's existent tourism slump means the usually jam-packed Unesco Heritage Site - is each yours.'

Siwa Oasis, Egypt

'A timeless godforsaken flight successful the majestic dunes of Egypt's Great Sand Sea.'

ASIA 

Koh Ker, Cambodia

'A distant Cambodian archaeological tract that was founded by a rebellious royal.'

Meghalaya, India

'A crisp, pine-scented elevation authorities wherever lovers of the outdoors… volition beryllium successful their element.'

Nikko, Japan

'As Tokyo and Kyoto turn much crowded with tourists each year, a enactment successful Nikko, beloved for its spectacular earthy beauty... is conscionable the summons for a peaceful travel successful Japan.'

AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC 

The Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

'These distant Pacific islands person captivated travellers for centuries.'

Wellington, New Zealand

'New Zealand's superior metropolis is an oasis surrounded by mountains, sandy beaches, and a seaside harbour.'

EUROPE 

Camargue, France

'A rugged country of Provence implicit with chaotic bulls and cowboys.'

Helsinki, Finland

'The world's happiest metropolis is besides a vibrant taste hub.'

Meteora, Greece

'A million-year-old earthy wonderment wherever eden meets earth.'

Masurian Lake District, Poland

'An under-the-radar outdoor stunner.'

Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland

'A sanctuary of puffins and stunning cliffs.'

MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA 

Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

'Clear bluish rivers, mountaintop unreality forests, and subterranean caverns marque this a quality lover's paradise.'

León, Nicaragua

'Street spirits revolt successful the shadows of assemblage cathedrals and cinder cone volcanoes.'

Mérida, Mexico

'A vibrant, originative superior steeped successful Mayan culture.'

Veraguas, Panama

'A lush Panamanian state that offers world-class wildlife tourism opportunities.'

SOUTH AMERICA 

Colca Canyon, Peru

'Often missed for its renowned neighbour, Machu Picchu, this is 1 of the deepest canyons successful the satellite with soaring condors and Inca terraces.'

Santa Marta, Colombia

'A Unesco World Heritage Site with a nationalist parkland that is champion reached by boat.'

For much sojourn www.fodors.com/go-list/2025 and www.fodors.com/news/news/fodors-no-list-2025.