Read THIS before you book next year's bucket-list trip: Fodor's reveals its 2024 GO and NO lists - the best places to visit, and the spots to avoid (and it's not good news for Venice and Athens)
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Read THIS before you book next year's bucket-list trip: Fodor's reveals its 2024 GO and NO lists - the best places to visit, and the spots to avoid (and it's not good news for Venice and Athens)

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Your 2024 holiday bucket list may need a few tweaks. Ha Long Bay, Vietnam Ha Long Bay looks amazing from the air, but there is a growing problem of refuse and diesel in the water Fodor's Travel says: 'Management of Ha Long Bay’s tourist boating activities along with growing fishing communities are contributing to refuse and diesel in the water, and attempts to curb pollution are easily circumvented and only half-heartedly enforced.' The Atacama Desert, Chile The Atacama Desert is marketed as one of Chile's finest natural resources, 'but that is at odds with how it manages the environmental preservation of the desert,' says Fodor's Travel. San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, California San Gabriel Mountains National Monument is 'deteriorating' 'The number of visitors combined with lack of oversight and environmental awareness has led to the deterioration of what should be a natural oasis for Los Angeles County,' says Fodor's Travel. Lake Superior Lake Superior is facing ecosystem threats, says Fodor's Travel FODOR'S TRAVEL'S GO AND NO LISTS 2024 - FROM COLORADO TO VENICE The GO List - '24 places to stoke the curiosity of wanderlust' USA AND CANADA Boulder, Colorado Cannon Beach, Oregon Nelson, British Columbia, Canada AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST Botswana Cape Verde Franschhoek, South Africa Ifrane, Morocco ASIA Coron, Philippines George Town, Malaysia Kakaban Island, Indonesia Sri Lanka AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC Stanley, Tasmania, Australia Queenstown, New Zealand EUROPE Albania Bergen, Norway Rouen, France Sighișoara, Romania MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Copan Ruinas, Honduras Negril, Jamaica Puerto Escondido, Mexico Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica SOUTH AMERICA Cartagena, Colombia Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay São Paulo, Brazil The No list - nine regions to reconsider in 2024 Venice 'Plagued with over-tourism for years' Athens 'Excessive tourism and a lack of approved management plans are causing damage to the Acropolis' Mount Fuji, Japan 'Visitors aren't fully recognizing the risks and detrimental effects of climbing Mount Fuji' San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, California 'The number of visitors combined with lack of oversight and environmental awareness has led to the deterioration of what should be a natural oasis for Los Angeles County' Ha Long Bay, Vietnam 'Management of Ha Long Bay's tourist boating activities along with growing fishing communities are contributing to refuse and diesel in the water' The Atacama Desert, Chile 'Chile markets the Atacama Desert as one of its finest natural resources, but that is at odds with how it manages the environmental preservation of the desert' Lake Superior 'The largest freshwater lake on the planet is facing fish-consumption advisories, ecosystem threats like invasive species and algae blooms, and stresses from overtourism' The Ganges River, India 'The most important river in India faces issues of reduced flow, floating pollution, and the endangerment of its river dolphins' Koh Samui, Thailand 'Freshwater shortages have plagued Ko Samui for almost a year' Source: www.fodors.com It's the largest freshwater lake on the planet, but Fodor's Travel notes that it's facing multiple problems - 'fish-consumption advisories, ecosystem threats like invasive species and algae blooms, and stresses from over-tourism, especially in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan'.

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