These are the most in-demand travel destinations for fall 2024

When Americans consider traveling overseas, where are they daydreaming about going? Even better, what can we prove when figuring out where they want to go?

Analyzing Google search data for 140 cities over the past 12 months to find the most in-demand overseas destinations from the US gives us some facts. Adding in the most popular searches on GayCities itself completes the puzzle.

Mexico City is the most in-demand city to travel to from the US. Each month, 47,318 searches in the US for trips to the city occur. Specifically, “Flights Mexico City” was the top-searched term, making up 45,395 searches. The Mexican capital is also the most popular search on GayCities, and articles about the city are some of the most popular on the site.

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Rome comes in second on the list, with an average of 40,495 monthly searches for trips to the Italian capital. Searches for “Flights Rome” contributed 36,239 of these average monthly searches. Rome also lands in the top five searches for GayCities, but at number five.

The Spanish capital, Madrid, follows in third place, with an average of 19,728 monthly searches. On average, “Flights Madrid” made up 18,294 of these monthly searches. Barcelona, however, lands in the top five searches on GayCities.

In fourth place is the Canadian city of Montreal, which has an average of 17,775 monthly searches. The search term “Flights Montreal” made up most of these searches, 15,609 each month. Montreal ranks in the top ten for GayCities but not in the top five.

Rounding out the top five is the Greek capital of Athens, which sees an average of 17,605 searches per month. “Flights Athens” made up 16,177 of these monthly searches. Greece is hugely popular with the LGBTQ+ community; Athens is in the top ten for GayCities.

Lisbon, Portugal, came in sixth place using Google search data, but Italy scored several cities in the rounded-out top ten. Venice was the seventh most popular, Milan was eighth, Florence ninth, and Naples came in at tenth place.

In a recent survey, GayCities readers chose Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as the city they most want to visit. It ranks third among the most popular city guides.

And finally, Berlin, Germany, is fourth on the GayCities popularity ranking. Most users want information about the city’s popular nightclubs and bathhouses.

“While searches for overseas destinations may not seem as high as some people are expecting, many Americans choose to fly to domestic city destinations for their trips,” Magdalena Petrusic from Dubai Tours & Tickets said. “This is potentially due to the fact flights to other continents could end up costing thousands.”

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