Luxury travel: growing destinations 2016

This statistic shows the luxury travel destinations with the largest growth in travel worldwide as of August 2016. Luxury travel to Kenya grew by 59 percent in 2016 compared with the previous year.
In 2017, the Caribbean was the leading international destination for a spring vacation according to U.S. respondents. A separate 2017 survey, found that U.S. travelers favorite destination region overall was the U.S. state of Hawaii.

Luxury destinations with the largest growth in travel worldwide as of August 2016

Characteristic	Year-over-year travel growth
Kenya	59%
Iceland	56%
Saint Martin	39%
China	35%
Ecuador	34%
Japan	32%
South Africa	28%
Tanzania	27%
Croatia	25%
Jamaica	23%

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August 2016

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as of August 2016

Supplementary notes

The source does not provide a date of survey. The date given is the publication date. Data is drawn from Virtuoso’s United States and Canadian-based travel agency members and represents international travel only, so neither the U.S. nor Canada is mentioned. Virtuoso is a leading international travel agency network specializing in luxury and experiential travel. This by-invitation-only organization comprises over 390 agency members with more than 11,400 elite travel advisors in 40 countries throughout North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.

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