Fodor's No List 2027: 8 Popular Places to Skip and Where to Go Instead

Fodor's has published its No List 2027 with eight overcrowded destinations, from the Albanian Riviera and the Amalfi Coast to Kyoto and Sedona. Learn more about why each place made the list, how to visit them more responsibly and which destinations Fodor's recommends instead

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The travel publisher Fodor's has released its annual No List, this time for 2027. According to UNIAN, the list again includes eight popular destinations where tourism has grown so large that it now harms the places themselves and the people who live there.

For travellers planning next year's trips, the list explains what is going wrong in each destination: crowds, construction, short-term rentals, waste and pressure on housing. Fodor's also published a separate list of places it recommends visiting in 2027.

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Why does Fodor's publish a No List?

Every year Fodor's experts select places where tourism has become excessive. In their words, huge crowds, large-scale construction, the spread of short-term rentals and the bustle of receiving millions of visitors affect both residents and the very features that made these places attractive.

In practice, this can mean an ecosystem working at the limit of its capacity, housing that local people can no longer afford, or a historic quarter turned into one long souvenir shop with almost no permanent residents.

The authors stress that a place on the list is not a bad place: it has become a victim of its own popularity. Fodor's does not call for a boycott. Instead, it asks travellers to plan more consciously: sometimes give a place a rest, choose a locally owned hotel, support businesses run by residents or simply move a little further from the busiest spots.

About the places on Fodor's No List for 2026 — read more at the link.

Albanian Riviera

The tourism boom on the coast of Albania is pushing local businesses to build new hotels and apartments in scenic locations. Many of these buildings stand empty in winter and in the off-season.

Fodor's experts advise travellers not to limit a trip to Albania to beach holidays and to explore the less visited parts of the country.

Amalfi Coast

The Amalfi Coast is often called the most beautiful part of Italy. The recent opening of an airport in Salerno has brought even more visitors to the region.

According to Fodor's, the Amalfi Coast can no longer cope with these numbers, especially in the peak season.

Bali

The main problem on Bali is waste. The island cannot handle the amount of rubbish left behind by tourists, simply because there is nowhere to put it.

Corsica

Corsica is a Mediterranean island of France lying between the French mainland and the Italian island of Sardinia.

Because of difficulties with food supplies, Corsica cannot yet provide everything needed for too large a number of guests.

Edinburgh

The capital of Scotland, in the United Kingdom, increasingly suffers from overtourism. Edinburgh's transport infrastructure struggles to cope with the flow of visitors.

Short-term rental housing is also pushing residents out of the city's good neighbourhoods.

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Kyoto

Kyoto in Japan now receives so many tourists that access to some districts has been restricted for them. One example is the city's historic geisha quarter.

Ngorongoro

Ngorongoro is a huge crater in Tanzania on the edge of the Serengeti savannah and the traditional home of the indigenous Maasai people.

The Ngorongoro crater now receives more than a million tourists a year. According to Fodor's, this deprives it of its uniqueness and damages the local ecosystem.

Sedona

Sedona is a scenic town in Arizona, USA, with a population of 10,000. Every year about 3 million people visit it.

Such interest inevitably pushes up the prices of housing and other services in Sedona, which affects local residents.

About the most underrated travel destinations in Europe for 2027 — read more at the link.

Where does Fodor's recommend travelling in 2027?

Alongside the No List, Fodor's published a list of 27 places worth visiting next year, divided by region. Among them, as reported by UNIAN:

• Africa — Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa; Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.
• Australia and the Pacific — the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand; Lord Howe Island, Australia.
• Central America and the Caribbean — Grenada in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles; Miches, Dominican Republic; Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Europe — English Wine Country, United Kingdom.
• South America — Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

What other 2027 travel rankings are there?

Earlier, National Geographic selected 25 destinations around the world worth visiting next year. Its ranking is led by the scenic Vestland region in western Norway. A travel accommodation booking platform has also named 10 underrated cities that it expects to become popular with tourists in 2027.

Visit World has also covered 10 trending destinations for 2027 from Skyscanner.

What does the No List mean for travellers?

A trip to any of these eight places is still possible, but Fodor's advice is to plan it differently:

• consider giving the most strained destinations a rest for a season;
• avoid the peak season where the overload is worst, as on the Amalfi Coast;
• stay in locally owned hotels and use businesses run by residents;
• look beyond the main tourist centres, as Fodor's suggests for Albania.

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