The 6 destinations you need to rediscover in 2026

Revenge travel is dead. Here are the places where you can finally breathe.

A cyclist rides through the Kastellet, a former military fortress in Copenhagen.

Somewhere between the unexpectedly comfortable economy class seat on a discount Korean airline flight and the silence of an early morning in Christchurch’s Riccarton neighborhood, it hit me: The revenge travel crowds have finally dispersed. Travel is back to normal.

I thought…