Destination Guide
Tripadvisor's Summer 2026 Traveller Index put Alicante at the top of its European trending destinations list. Most American travelers have never considered it. Most European travelers have been sleeping on it too, routing instead to Barcelona or Mallorca without realizing there's a city on the Costa
TikTok is beta testing a metasearch feature that lets users view and book hotels directly through cards embedded in their video feed. It isn't live everywhere yet, but it's real, and it signals a shift in where travelers discover and book accommodation that has been building
Mallorca is one of those destinations that gets dismissed before it's understood. The mention of it conjures images of budget flights and overcrowded beach clubs in the south. That reputation is real, but it belongs to about 20% of the island. The other 80% is something else entirely:
Search interest in slow travel Italy jumped 100% in the past month. That's not a coincidence. Travelers who've been to Rome and Florence are looking for the next thing, and Italy has more to offer than those two cities can contain. The regions that reward slower
Search interest in the best restaurants in Mexico City hit a 10-year high in 2026. That's a meaningful signal. It's not just that CDMX is having a travel moment. It's that travelers are arriving with a specific goal: eat well, stay in a
Hotel prices in the 16 FIFA World Cup host cities have dropped about one-third from their 2025 peak. The surge pricing that spooked travelers a year ago has mostly unwound. But match nights are still expensive. The average hotel rate in Houston during match days runs $200 to $350
Destination Guide
Airfare to Split, Croatia dropped 33% year-over-year in 2026. That's not a rounding error. That's the market signaling that it's finally cheaper to fly somewhere that used to be expensive to reach, in a country that was already a good value for
Travel Savings
Slow travel hit an all-time high in 2026. More people are spending ten days in one city instead of rushing through five in two weeks. Staying in a neighborhood instead of near the airport. Eating at the same restaurant twice because it was good, not because the schedule required
Destination Guide
Almost everyone who travels to Japan does so in spring, for cherry blossoms, or in fall, for the foliage. Summer gets a reputation for brutal heat and packed crowds and is largely written off as the wrong time to go. That reputation is mostly wrong. July and August are one
Travel Savings
Hotels are charging for things they used to include. Not just the resort fees you've been paying for years. Early check-in is a fee. Late checkout is a fee. Daily housekeeping is a fee at some properties. The industry calls it "unbundling." Your bill calls
Destination Guide
Seven of the top ten trending travel destinations in the world right now are in Eastern Europe. Prague search interest is up 180% year-over-year. Sofia is up 136%. Krakow up 106%. Budapest up 86%. This isn't a new story. Eastern Europe has been "about to
Travel News
Tripadvisor's new Summer 2026 Index shows East Coast and Florida beaches dominating domestic travel demand. Here's what hotel prices at the top destinations actually look like.