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Travel trends
Data-driven pieces on where 2026 travel is going. Shoulder season, dupes, solo, set-jetting, coolcations, safety.
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Travel trends
The Party Travel Calendar: Where To Be Every Month, From 68,930 Club Nights
Twelve months of Resident Advisor listings, 68,930 club nights, and a test strict enough to throw out the fake spikes. Where to be in each month of the year, and the two months where the data says nowhere.
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The Lonelier We Get, The More We Travel Together
One in six people worldwide are lonely, and Gen Z leads every dataset. The same generation is the most likely to travel to meet people. Here is the evidence that travel with others lowers loneliness, and why the group chat never turns into a trip.
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Phone Stolen Abroad: The 15 Minutes Before You Go, And The First Hour After
The most expensive thing a phone thief takes abroad is the passcode they watched you type. Here is the 15-minute setup before you travel, and the exact order to move in the first hour after a phone is stolen.
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Israel Tourism Doesn't Fade. It Switches Off, Then Back On.
Israel's tourism does not fade gradually, it switches off and back on with regional security. The boom-bust pattern from 2019's record to 2026's month-to-month whipsaw, what Gulf unrest changes, and how to read the window before you go.
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The World Cup Doesn’t Fill a Country. It Concentrates It.
A World Cup does not fill a host country evenly. It concentrates travelers into host cities on match nights and thins out everywhere else. Here is how the 2026 tournament reshapes travel across the US, Canada, and Mexico, and how to plan around it.
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Cooler, Quieter, And On Purpose
Coolcations are trips chosen because the weather is cool, not despite it. Iceland, Norway, Scotland, Finland. Here's why the trend is exploding, and how to pitch it to a group expecting Spain.
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The Show Ended. The Group Chat Did Not.
Set-jetting is the travel trend of going where the show was filmed. White Lotus Sicily, Squid Game Jeju, Emily in Paris. Here's why it works as group travel, and how to plan it.
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Solo Travel, On Purpose. Alone, Optional.
Solo travel is at an all-time high, and the smartest solo travellers aren't actually alone. Here's how to plan a solo trip with built-in friend overlap, using Noovo's friend map.
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September Is Quietly The New Summer
Shoulder season travel is cheaper, calmer, and easier to coordinate. Here's why September is quietly the new summer, and how to claim the week before everyone realises.
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The Second City Trip, And Who To Take With You
Destination dupes are quietly the smartest travel trend of 2026. Cheaper, calmer, often better. Here are the classic swaps, the numbers behind them, and how to pick the friends.
Photos by Baptiste MEREL, Helena Lopes, Dan Nelson, Raimond Klavins, Tobias, Robert Lukeman, Sam Ferrara, Adam Hornyak, Gabriella Clare Marino and Dawid Tkocz on Unsplash.