Lonely Planet reveals top 2025 holiday hotspots – including underrated English region

LONELY Planet has revealed its apical database of trending destinations that you request to sojourn adjacent year.

The champion cities, countries and regions to sojourn person each been announced by the planetary question books successful their Best successful Travel 2025.

Each class has some fashionable places and 'hidden gems' arsenic portion of the apical 10 list.

As portion of their Top 10 Regions, East Anglia bizarrely made the apical 10.

Called the "enigmatic UK region," it made the apical database for being a "true sensation of aged England, combined with beauteous quality reserves [...] lively coastal formation towns and picturesque inland waterways".

The portion is made up Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.

Some of the highlights see "listening to birds astatine Mismere" arsenic good arsenic assemblage hopping successful Cambridge and having a nighttime retired successful Norfolk with theatre, unrecorded euphony and creation shows.

Annette Salkald, North Suffolk Coast Reserves Warden, Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds said: "I emotion the quirky marketplace towns with antithetic shops and a existent assemblage vibe.

She besides praised the region's beauteous scenery and nature.

Visit England's Chief Executive Patricia Yates added: “It is fantastic to spot East Anglia instrumentality its spot connected the planetary signifier arsenic 1 of Lonely Planet’s Best successful Travel 2025 apical regions.

"And it’s nary astonishment with the country boasting an outstanding coastline, fabulous seaside towns, historical attractions, waterways and breathtaking countryside.

"This accolade will promote home and planetary visitors to research much of the portion and observe the lukewarm invited that awaits them.”

The different apical regions included Bavara successful Germany, the Jordan Trail and Valais successful Switzerland, though the no.1 spot went to South Carolina’s Low Country and Coastal Georgia, USA.

When it comes to the 10 Best Cities, portion nary successful the UK made the cut, determination were a fig of European cities to feature.

The no.1 spot was Toulouse in France, dubbed the Pink City due to the fact that of its pink terracotta bricks.

Bulgaria's Bansko came successful third, known for being a inexpensive skis destination, followed by Genoa successful Italy and Spain's Majorca.

And for the apical 10 Best Countries gave the apical spot to Cameroon, with Lithuanisa and Slovakia making the database too.

Nitya Chambers, Lonely Planet’s SVP, Content and Executive Editor, said: "Best successful Travel 2025 is the latest variation of Lonely Planet’s yearly emotion missive to the world.

"While mindful of our responsibilities and interaction arsenic travelers, we’re arrogant of the destinations, journeys and experiences featured present and are excited to stock the section expertise and penetration astatine the bosom of these recommendations.

"Wherever you are successful the world, we’re assured Best successful Travel brings caller inspiration for the twelvemonth ahead."

It's not the lone trending destination for 2025.

Bosnia and Herzegovina was named a "less crowded alternate to Dubrovnik' by a team of question experts astatine Wild Frontiers.

Brittany successful France has made the database of trending destinations for 2025 by American Express.

Skyscanner's trending destinations 2025 included Tartu successful Estonia, Reggio Calabria successful Italy and Córdoba, Spain.