The popular publishing house Lonely Planet, specializing in the issue of tourist guidebooks, directions in the upcoming 2014.

Immediately it should be clarified that the published list is purely subjective, and it should not be treated as an official document reflecting the real state of affairs in the tourism industry. Rather, it's something from a series of fashionable glossy magazine, which presents the main trends of the coming season.

When forming the rating, the publisher's employees were guided by such criteria as "relevance", "surprise" and some "x-factor" . According to the total of three indicators of the most promising, from the tourist point of view, the country for 2014 recognized Brazil - obviously not the last role in awarding the first place was played by the upcoming World Cup, which threatens to visit more than 600 thousand foreign guests . The second place was unexpectedly taken by the Antarctic, which increasingly attracts fans of unusual trips (here locally recall the September cruise on the historical route of the Norwegian Rual Amundsen, which started from Greenland and reached the Arctic Ocean of Russian Anadyr) . The troika of winners was closed by the windy and rainy Scotland .

Totally the top 10 countries for 2014 looks as follows:

1. Brazil
2. Antarctica (!)
3. Scotland
4. Sweden
5. Malawi
6. Mexico
7. Seychelles
8. Belgium
9. Macedonia
10. Malaysia

Similar the rating for individual cities is presented in the following article:

• Rating of the main tourist cities of 2014

10 fresh news

• On March 5 the 85th Geneva Motor Show will start (27 Feb)
• Paris will lose one of the main attractions (27 Feb)
• Tourist fell from a height of 500 meters, trying to make selfi (Feb 27)
• There was not enough space for all the passengers on the Pobedy flight (27 Feb)
• The Quidditch Championship started in Spain (27 Feb)
• Israeli passengers nearly beat the flight attendant because of the chocolates (Feb 27)
• The most expensive ski resorts in Europe were determined (Feb 27)
• Marijuana smoking legalized in Washington ( Feb 27)
• Click to enlarge The cost of overseas roaming (Feb 27)
• The ski season in Sochi will last till May (Feb 27)