The hot spots and cool hotels

This year, treat your travel bucket list like your office to-do list and tackle the timeliest items first. That means sailing through Brazil’s jaguar-filled (and newly luxurious) Pantanal while everyone else heads down the Amazon, and skipping overdeveloped Bali in favour of the Balearics, where a five-star-resort renaissance is under way. Start packing: it’s going going to be an exciting year ahead.

Norway

As travellers with time and money increasingly seek isolation and ...