yountville, california

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Yountville, in the heart of Napa Valley, is not only a popular weekend destination for wine lovers, but also home to one of the best restaurants in the world.

a unique opportunity

In the editorial of the second-anniversary issue of Monocle Magazine, Tyler Brûlé ventures what may be a new pattern of global culture:

In a world where everything is starting to look more alike rather than unique, each person or company is an outpost that challenges convention and points to a new way of marketing, selling and [...]

fiesch, switzerland

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Have you noticed how every little corner of Switzerland looks like a postcard? No wonder they are ranked as one of the countries with the best tourism infrastructure.

competitiveness report

The World Economic Forum announced its Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2009 will be released on March 4. A couple of weeks ago I was asking people where to find better data that could be used to identify emerging destinations and based on the 2008 version of the report, this may be the [...]

a global culture tour

What if you could spend the next two years of your life travelling around the world, taking the time to really get to know each place you visit and nurture long lasting relationships with locals at each point? Which destinations would you choose, knowing that you want to cover as much world as possible [...]

on being emerging

After my post on the emerging destinations index, I got some really good feedback about how misleading calling them “emerging destinations” was. As I replied in the original comment thread it was mostly a derivative from the original “emerging markets” index which is where I got the data from. It just happens [...]