Award-Winning Travel Brand AFAR Names Detroit Its Annual Where to Go Travel List for 2024

DETROIT, MI (Nov. 28, 2023) – Award-winning travel media brand AFAR has revealed its annual Where to Go list—and it features 25 exciting destinations to visit in 2024, including Detroit, MI. The critically acclaimed magazine was founded in 2009, and now helps define the most important trends in travel.

Spanning cities, regions, and whole countries, the list is the result of months of research and reporting from AFAR’s cohort of correspondents and editors roaming the globe. It offers travelers unique ways to engage with major events such as the total solar eclipse that will be visible across the southern USA, tips for plugging into music scenes around the world, and more—always with an eye on thoughtful, sustainable tourism that aligns with AFAR’s vision of travel as a force for good. Detroit is one of four Great American Cities featured in the list.

From AFAR’s article on Detroit “Detroit’s Michigan Central, a Beaux-Arts former train station, has been reimagined as a transportation R&D lab with retail, dining, and community spaces—just one example of how everything old is new again in this city. The hip Cambria Hotel (in a 1936 radio broadcasting building by Albert Kahn, one of Detroit’s great architects) is the latest in a string of landmarks refashioned as boutique hotels.”

What People are Saying About AFAR’s Where to Go List for 2024

“Detroit and Detroiters have always moved the world with our music, innovation, and culture,” said Visit Detroit President and CEO Claude Molinari. “However, seeing so many national and international organizations praising our city is really special. AFAR is one of the most influential travel publications, and Visit Detroit is committed to doing its part to attract more visitors, investment, and residents to Southeast Michigan.

“AFAR has a knack for identifying the places people want to be before they know they want to be there, and it’s an honor to have Detroit named among these global destinations as one of AFAR’s top travel picks for 2024,” said Dave Lorenz, vice president of Travel Michigan, part of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. "The Motor City is full of culture, history, and new attractions and hotels. We're especially excited to host the 2024 NFL Draft next spring and can’t wait to welcome more visitors."

“AFAR’s audience is the most traveled and most conscientious in travel media,” says Greg Sullivan, cofounder and CEO of AFAR. “They are also the trendsetters, foreshadowing what average travelers will be doing in five years."

Working on AFAR’s annual Where to Go list always lands me with a half dozen new places on my “must visit” list, and this year is no exception,” says deputy editor Tim Chester. “Our writers have done a stellar job of bringing 25 places to vivid life; I hope readers find as much inspiration as I did.”

AFAR joins a growing list of organizations that are praising Detroit, including Conde Nast Traveler, TIME, the NFL, the NCAA, and many others, which encourage even more people to spend their time and money in Oakland, Macomb, Wayne County and the city of Detroit. More than 16.5 million people visited Southeast Michigan in 2022, which contributed $9.2 billion dollars to our region's economy.

See AFAR full list here: The 25 Best Places to Travel in 2024 - AFAR

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