Time to start planning a year of great adventures. To help you fill out your calendar, we compiled our list of the top places to visit in 2019, but we also went to travel advisors, specialists, and travel company CEOs for their insights on the hottest emerging destinations of the year. Heres where they think intrepid, trend-setting travelers should go.RwandaWhy Go Now? With newcomers Singita Kwitonda Lodge and Kataza House (opening in fall

Whats better than end-of-year lists? Beginning-of-year lists. So much potential. So much promise. So many blank days on the calendar. Draw a red line through a week or two and strategize your 2019 travel plans. Here are 15 exciting destinations we predict travelers will be buzzing about all year long.ChileNorthern Chile’s Elqui Valley, home of pisco, world-class wine, and the stunning Andean mountainside, is one of the best places in South

We’re pleased to report that 2019  is shaping up to be a banner year for new hotels. We’ve been eagerly compiling the year’s most creative, exciting, and far-reaching hospitality endeavors. These are the twenty were most excited about, in order of anticipated opening — from intimate, off-grid nature reserves to stylish boutique digs in up-and-coming urban neighborhoods — followed by an additional hit list of 70 ho

There are plenty of upsides to being a party of one in New York City. You can create your own agenda, move fast or slow, and take it all in as you please. These 47 terrific solo adventures (organized into nine kinds of activities) will have you happy as a clam in the Big Apple.1. Hang out with a cool group. (Indie tours beat generic sightseeing.)Scotts Pizza ToursA young pizza-obsessed local takes you for slices in all the boroughs.Hush Hip

Bookmark this page. And consider it your go-to source when you need spontaneous travel inspiration. We will update it on the regular with timely deals and special offers, quick hits on the places weve just visited, and a look at things the industry is buzzing about.Updated 3/13/19Travel DealsNew Orleans: In honor of their third anniversary, Ace Hotel New Orleans will be holding a 72-hour flash sale on March 14, 2019. Anyone who books during

If theres anything we love more than a great hotel, its a great hotel that feels like a steal.This is our second installment of the Worlds Best Budget Hotels, an understandably popular category in the Fathom Travel Awards, our ongoing celebration of the best places, services, and products in the world.This year, we focused on hotels in destinations that are usually on the pricey side: big cities, hot destinations, and great beaches. 

As anyone who scrolls disappointedly through their trip photos knows, getting the right shot is no easy feat.But not impossible.If you know what to do.We asked the pros for their best tips — how to shoot, edit, buy better gear, and stay organized — which we compiled in a handy PDF you can download below.In no time at all, youll be capturing better, punchier pics for your ever-growing albums and Instagram and Facebook feeds.Howd

When we asked our favorite travel experts how they balance work and travel, we got so many great answers that we turned it into a three-part series covering how to stay healthy while traveling, how to have fun on business trips, and, in this article, how to be productive when youre on the road. Whether youre cranking out a report or just whittling down your inbox, it can be hard to get work done while traveling. Especially when th

When we asked our favorite travel experts how they balance work and travel, we got so many great answers that we turned it into a three-part series covering how to stay productive, how to stay healthy, and, in this article, how to mix work and play.Get to travel often for work? Amazing. End up spending most of your free time in a hotel room? Not so amazing. Its hard to get a good taste for a place in between board meetings (those mountain

When we asked our favorite travel experts how they balance work and travel, we got so many great answers that we turned it into a three-part series covering how to stay productive, how to have fun on business trips, and, in this article, how to stay healthy while traveling. Because if youre feeling lousy, nothing else about your trip will matter.If youve ever had the urge to sleep for two days straight after returning from a trip, you know

Team Fathom breaks down some common currency questions into simple dollars and cents.You hustle to the airport, shuffle through security, take off, land, locate your luggage, and figure out your next move. The last thing you want on your mind is money worries. Should you exchange currency now or later?  Should you have done so at home? Will you get price gouged? For your pre-flight peace of mind, we answer some of the most co

With summer vacation in our sightline, we’re taking a moment to examine the latest crop of new hotel openings around the globe. As always, we’re mightily impressed with what we’ve found – a mix of old and new structures that have been thoughtfully pieced together to create homes away from home for worldly travelers who require something much better than any old hotel. Some are housed in new buildings (a 65-floor skyscraper overlooking Hong

Ah, Paris! So much to do and see. So many museums and boulevards, passageways and cobblestones, bistros and boutiques.Oh, Paris. Youre totally overwhelmed.We get it. And were here to help, with a new downloadable guide, A Perfect Day in the Marais, the coolest of all the cool neighborhoods in Paris.Written by our writer in Paris, Kasia Dietz, its part of our summer-long partnership with LE BHV MARAIS, the 160-year-old department store

Presented in partnership with Marriott International.If youre wondering if every hotel on earth is owned by Marriott International these days, you’re not far off. The company has been on a roll in recent years, launching the hot city hotel brand EDITION with Ian Schrager, the legend who invented the boutique hotel, as well as BVLGARI Hotels & Resorts, in partnership with the luxury fashion house. And, of course the company merged with Starw

Looking for the perfect travel jacket? This bespoke blazer may just be it.Every jet-setting gentleman should have a good blazer to set the tone for business meetings, fancy dinners, or spontaneous upgrades. A great travel jacket should look and feel good in any situation — hauling through the airport and seated for hours on the plane included. The best kind of jacket holds its shape for hours without creasing or causing you to overhea

If you can’t get to a gym because you’re on the road or stuck at home, you can still bust a good sweat. I spent six weeks last fall on a change-cities-every-two-days trip through Marrakech, Italy, and London. Super fun! So intense! And very bad for my fitness regime. This sent me online looking for options. I found so many workouts and yoga classes to stream and virtual studios to join. These are my favorites, organized by length of time. (

We always like checking in with our travel insider pals — advisors, industry experts, travel company CEO — to see where they are sending their clients next. The list is diverse and as far ranging as we would expect from insatiably curious globetrotters, and we werent at all surprised to see that Sicily and Japan are extra popular this year.RwandaWhy Go Now? Rwanda is HOT for 2020. The opening of Singita Kwitonda Lodge heralds a

If we’re being honest, this business of trend forecasting is more than a little arbitrary. After all, the list of places you want to go this year will mostly be dictated by the places you want to go this year. And it’s not like a destination only has a lifespan of twelve months. Indeed, if we consider the destinations that made the cut last year, we still stand by all of them. (In fact, they were on many other experts’ 2020 ranking.) Still,

This February, Valentines Day will conveniently fall on the Friday of Presidents Day weekend, combining the holidays for an extra dose of love — and vacation days. So skip the tacky crowded restaurant and store-bought chocolate and take someone you dig (or just yourself) on a trip instead.For International LoversAnguilla: Overlooking the sugar-white sands of Meads Bay and Turtle Cove, Malliouhana, an Auberge Resort, recently underwent

Well be updating this page throughout the COVID-19 crisis with the information that is currently on the airlines websites. If you want us to add your airline to this page, drop us a line at higuys [at] fathomaway.com. This was updated on March 16, 2020. To travel or not to travel right now? That is the question. And if you do have travel plans that you want to cancel because of concerns over COVID-19 or because your boss said you