After the pandemic curtailed travel, many Americans are ready to travel again. According to the U.S. Travel Association, travel spending has slowly been inching up to 2019 levels. Although travel destinations are as individual as the person who is traveling, some travelers are choosing to visit well-known and well-loved destinations that are familiar.
Nancy Schretter, managing editor of the Family Travel Network, told HuffPost:
“I think many destinations become repeat destinations because travelers develop an emotional attachment to these spots through amazing experiences they’ve had there ― often with family and friends. As the bond grows deeper, vacationers simply can’t imagine not coming back.”
The Discoverer.com wanted to know more about these repeat destinations. So it asked readers to write in and name beloved destinations that they return to time and time again. There was no geographic limit to where the destinations could be, so readers wrote in with world-wide destinations. The result was a list of 11 destinations from reader responses.
How Did Florida Fare?
Florida had the city of Key West named in the list. Respondents mentioned the beaches, the food, the “quirky,” laid-back atmosphere, and the architecture. According to Rockport Analytics, the Florida Keys welcomed around 5 million visitors in 2018, the latest data available. Trip Advisor says that some of the top destinations in Key West are Dry Tortugas National Park, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory, Mallory Square, and Duval Street.
Key West was only one of two destinations from the United States that made the list. The other U.S. destination was Cape Cod.
Here are the destinations that made the list:
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
- Costa Rica
- Paris, France
- Edinburgh, Scottland
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Florence, Italy
- Key West, Florida, United States
- Ireland
- Singapore
- Rome, Italy
- Vienna, Austria
