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Be sure to’ve bought sufficient pages in your passport, as a result of TIME has simply launched its checklist of the world’s 100 biggest locations to go to in 2024.

From Costa Rica to Koh Samui to the Republic of the Congo, the workforce of editors on the New York-based information journal has chosen extraordinary locations and thrilling new experiences vacationers have to learn about.

CNN Journey spoke to TIME senior editor Emma Barker about a few of the traits they’ve seen rising this 12 months.

This development isn’t new but it surely’s definitely big. Thousands and thousands of us are selecting our trip locations due to how gorgeous they appeared on different individuals’s TikTok movies or Instagram tales, and we need to go there and get a few of that candy shareable content material, too.

Barker factors to “these form of otherworldly artwork and design locations” like Aranya, China. It’s “this superb, minimalist-design seaside city that a whole lot of younger individuals in China are going to for its gradual tempo of life and enjoyable ethos” — and since it appears to be like unbelievable on digicam.

“These sorts of locations that lead to gorgeous pictures are actually in style,” she says.

Gen Z has been sharing its love for healthful out of doors adventures on social media, and it’s a giant development for vacationers at giant as effectively.

Barkers says that when pulling collectively their checklist, TIME seen numerous journey operators providing “a twist on a standard expertise,” similar to Pure Choice’s guided biking safari in Botswana.

As a substitute of “occurring a safari the place you’re in a truck and also you’re driving via nature, it’s a biking safari the place you’re biking, you’re doing one thing energetic, it’s extra of a tour.”

House-related tourism is booming in China and elsewhere and vacationers world wide are utilizing their holidays to study extra about our world and our universe.

Barker notes that the current enhance in Antarctic journey has been difficult as a result of “it will increase the footprint on a really delicate panorama.”

So for his or her checklist they’ve highlighted tour operator White Desert, which has “actually set a mannequin for a way that tourism will be extra sustainable, by partnering with the scientists which can be going to Antarctica.”

Vacationers share flights with scientists going out to the area after which get the prospect to help the researchers of their work.

“They’re not rising the variety of flights coming in, they’re simply type of piggybacking on what’s already taking place with the scientists,” says Barker. “After which the vacationers additionally get to assist with that science and study in regards to the panorama, and the way they will shield it.”

The Trendy Elder Academy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, focuses on midlife self care.

It’s “type of like a middle-aged retreat,” says Barker, “which I feel is actually fascinating and enjoyable. It’s type of like a twist on the wellness retreat.”

The middle gives individuals assets on working via this difficult life interval, in addition to providing a group the place guests can join with individuals going via the identical experiences.

CNN Journey just lately lined the rise in menopause retreats, whereas sexual wellness can also be a sizzling development.

Voluntourism — the place vacationers work as volunteers within the areas they go to — “has turn into somewhat bit cliched, maybe, in that it makes you be ok with what you’re doing, however perhaps isn’t really that useful,” says Barker.

The recent new tackle this theme is regenerative tourism, which is “extra about actually leaving the panorama and the place higher than it was.”

TIME wished to convey consideration to Maui, the place West Maui reopened to tourism in November after being devastated by wildfires final summer season.

The indigenously-owned non-profit Maui Cultural Lands provide volunteer alternatives which can be “legitimately enjoyable,”says Barker. “You’re not losing your trip by doing arduous labor, though it’s work. You’re out on this gorgeous panorama, planting bushes. You will have a good time after which go assist the native companies.”

For extra highlights from this 12 months’s choice, take a look at the gallery above. And for the complete checklist, check out TIME’s web site.