Chase Travel, the leading leisure travel brand from JPMorganChase, today revealed the top 25 Trips to Take In 2025, its first annual list of top destinations to visit, informed by Chase Travel booking trends, exciting debuts and insights from in-house travel experts. The list includes destinations across the world, from coastal Vietnam to mainland Greece, as well as rising domestic locales.
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Notable trends and takeaways from Chase Travel’s 25 Trips to Take in 2025 include:
- New flights driving discovery: Improved transportation options, such as new game-changing nonstop flights to Marrakech and Greenland, plus an upgraded airport in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico, are making remote or previously hard-to-reach destinations more accessible.
- Luxury hotel openings: High-end accommodations are opening in new, remote or unexpected destinations such as Six Senses, which recently made its debut in Grenada.
- Unique ways of getting around: New cruise hotspots, train travel explorations and lesser-known road trips are providing travelers a fresh perspective on exploration in 2025.
- New side to old favorites: Swap Machu Picchu for Peru’s Colca Canyon, or skip Miami Beach and explore Little River and its buzzy restaurant scene. For a truly remote getaway, venture to Greenland or Western Australia for rugged outdoor adventures.
- Emerging European destinations on the rise: The allure of lesser-known European locales like Antwerp, Belgium, and Warsaw, Poland, is growing, especially as these cities are often more budget-friendly. Average travel to Warsaw was approximately $500 cheaper on average than travel to Rome in 20241, according to Chase Travel.
- Travelers chasing pop-culture trends: Both Thailand and Seoul, South Korea, are showing an increase in travel for 2025, in part due to buzz in surrounding popular TV series, movies and social media trends.
- Celebrating the great outdoors: Destinations such as Kenya and Rwanda are focusing on sustainability with eco-friendly lodges and conservation projects, while closer to home, one U.S. state – Georgia – is hoping to become home to the country’s next national park.
Holiday and 2025 Travel Trends: As an industry leader, Chase Travel is also sharing valuable travel insights for the upcoming year based on bookings.
- Shift in weekday travel to weekend travel: According to Chase Travel bookings for trips in 2025, Saturdays will be the busiest days to travel next year2, a shift from Thursdays being the most crowded in 2024. This holiday season, the busiest travel day is expected to be on Saturday, December 21.3
- Labor Day Weekend wins as busiest travel time of the year: Over 2023 and 2024, Labor Day weekend has been the most popular weekend to travel, with August 30 and September 1 being the busiest travel days of the year4
- Increase in travel for holidays and 2025 travel overall: Chase Travel shows 36% increase in travel for 20252 and 37% increase for the holiday season5 overall when comparing year-over-year.
As a new benefit for travelers planning holiday and 2025 trips, Sapphire Reserve cardmembers now have exclusive access to complimentary travel planning with a Reserve Travel Designer through Chase Travel. These designers are available 24/7 to assist with all aspects of travel planning—whether it’s crafting personalized itineraries, managing last-minute travel changes, or educating cardmembers on available travel options.
Leveraging the expertise of Reserve Travel Designers, Chase Travel has also launched a new series of All-Access Trips featuring curated, thoughtful itineraries during popular cultural events worldwide. Starting with a Miami Art Week trip this December, Chase Sapphire Reserve cardmembers can now book an All-Access Trip to experience the vibrant Festival of Colors, Holi, in the heart of India, powered by Chase Travel. For the latest travel benefits and offerings, visit chasetravel.com.
Chase Travel Group offers services across a variety of travel needs, including global leisure and business travel bookings, business-to-business travel platform solutions, meeting and event travel arrangements, corporate travel and expense management consulting services, and more. As an industry leader in travel, Chase Travel Group is comprised of influential travel brands including Chase Travel, FROSCH by Chase Travel, and VWT by Chase Travel, which together provide Chase Travel Group the ability to bridge owned modern, scalable technology with high touch travel services for complete, end-to-end travel booking experiences.
