Choosing the world’s next big travel destinations is never an easy feat, especially when there’s seemingly so little left of the globe to discover. But when our editors got into a room to hash out our top picks for 2008, we realized that we could have done a Top 13 this year, as all eyes will be on Beijing (when it hosts the Summer Olympic Games), and there’s never been a better time to visit Quebec City (which celebrates its 400th birthday in 2008) or Liverpool (the year’s European Capital of Culture). In the end, the ten destinations that rank among our Top 10 Places to Go in 2008 include renascent cities like New Orleans and emerging countries like Bhutan that are fast becoming the world’s next travel hotspots. Get there now, before the crowds do . . . in 2009.
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