{"id":45470,"date":"2026-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45470"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T19:18:44","slug":"most-popular-city-europe-rail-travel-trends-mexican-sites-admission-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/most-popular-city-europe-rail-travel-trends-mexican-sites-admission-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Popular City\/Europe Rail Travel Trends\/Mexican Sites Admission Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2><strong>The Most Popular City in the World\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026is Bangkok once again. Hosting more than 30 million arrivals in 2025, Thailand\u2019s capital was the most popular place to land. Next on the list were Hong Kong, London, Macau, and Istanbul. Paris, the #1 \u201cmost attractive city\u201d on Euromonitor\u2019s list was #9 in arrivals.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/12\/04\/travel\/euromonitor-international-top-city-destinations-2025\">See the details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>US\/Canadian Rail Travelers in Europe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>RailEurope only gets a fraction of the total foreign train bookings on the continent, but it gets enough of them do that the company could release a whole&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/how-north-americans-travelled-through-europe-in-2025\/\">2025 wrap-up<\/a>&nbsp;on US and Canadian travel there. Nice to see that more than half of visitors are picking multiple cities and adding smaller cities to the big and famous ones. Nevertheless, France was the number one market overall and this was shocking: \u201cThe Barcelona-Madrid corridor accounted for almost 50% of all revenue from Canadian and U.S. travellers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Experienced Travelers Shun AI Bots<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Experienced travelers may be fine with asking ChatGPT who won the best picture Oscar in 2019, but they\u2019re not about to let the computer bots plan their vacation. Anyone who has asked an AI tool to recommend an itinerary for their own city quickly sees why, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelpulse.com\/news\/technology\/why-experienced-travelers-say-no-to-autonomous-ai-booking\">this new report<\/a>&nbsp;says, \u201cOnly 20 percent said they would feel comfortable letting AI design a complete trip itinerary based on their preferences.\u201d A full 79 percent said they would feel uncomfortable letting \u201cagentic AI\u201d systems book their travel for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Huge Admission Increases in Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Until this year, admission prices for the archaeological sites in Mexico were a good value when compared to others around the world. That was until the national government doubled them all for foreigners this month. It will now cost you $38 to brave the tour bus crowds and vendors at Chichen Itza. Oddly, it will cost you the same amount to visit far less popular Ek Balam and $35 to visit ruins almost nobody goes to as it is, such as Sayil and Labna. The best bang for the buck is sprawling Teotihuacan near Mexico City, now looking like a deal at less than $12. Despite the doubling, that\u2019s also the price for Monte Alban, Coba, and Palenque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #189<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45471,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45470\/revisions\/45471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}