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The world's best travel destinations for 2025 were revealed — Here's how Montreal stacked up

Planning your travels for 2025? If you live in Montreal, you might want to consider a staycation instead!

Online travel guide Travel Lemming just named Montreal among the world's 50 best places to travel in 2025 — one of just three Canadian destinations to make the cut.

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Canada was just ranked one of the friendliest countries in the world — but we're not #1

Canada was just ranked one of the friendliest countries in the world, but we're far from the number one spot — and with our reputation for being extra welcoming, you'd think we'd be closer to the top.

According to Condé Nast Traveller's 2024 Readers' Choice Awards, we're the fifth-friendliest country in the world this year. While we're definitely proud of our spot, we can't help but wonder — shouldn't we be a little higher on the list?

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The Best Places To Travel To In 2024 Were Ranked & One Canadian City Made The Cut

With a new year comes a new set of destinations worth checking off your travel bucket list.

Travel Lemming, an online travel guide, ranked the 50 Best Places To Visit In 2024, and one Canadian destination made the cut. While cities such as Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are total must-sees when visiting Canada, it appears as if a more underrated spot is getting some much-deserved recognition.

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A 2023 Best Places To Travel Ranking Includes A Quebec Region & It's The Only Canadian Entry

Tourists coming to Quebec should look beyond Montreal and Quebec City this year — at least according to the New York Times. The esteemed publication has put out its list of "52 Places to Go in 2023" and Quebec's Eastern Townships region — which an NYT contributor describes as "Canada's New England" — just makes the cut at number 49. It's the only Canadian entry in the best places to travel ranking.

The Eastern Townships, travel expert AnneLise Sorensen writes, represent "slow travel at its best." She highlights the rural region's celebrated agricultural offerings: wine, cheese, flowers and farmers' market produce.

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Montreal Ranked Among The Most ‘Unexpected’ Destinations In The World For 2023 — Here’s Why

Travellers are getting more spontaneous than ever. Expedia ranked the most anticipated travel trends of 2023 and found people are likley to venture off the beaten path even more than this year, planning trips based on televised settings and word-of-mouth.

Traveller data from over a dozen countries shows 39% of globetrotters have booked (and 66% have considered) trips to destinations after seeing them in a TV show or movie. That means more visitors heading to rural British estates pictured in television dramas and fantastical adventures in the rolling 'hobbit' hills of New Zealand.

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CNN Travel Named Montreal One Of The '11 Top Destinations' Of Summer 2022

Montreal is pushing hard to revive its reputation as a fun and eclectic urban destination. From the wannabe-iconic giant genital jewelry — uh, we mean ring sculpture — in downtown Montreal, to the ambitious public program of street art and free shows, to the latest goosebump-inducing tourism campaign, the city is trying to grab your attention. And it appears to be working.

CNN Travel named Montreal one of the "11 top destinations" to visit in the summer of 2022. The city was one of three mentioned, alongside New York and Singapore.

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