Philadelphians have all the time recognized precisely how superior our metropolis is.

Unimaginable tradition? Verify. Historical past? Duh. Eating places that your favourite chef’s favourite chef drools over? Clearly.

So it’s no shock that three of journey’s most prestigious publications — Lonely Planet, Time Out and AFAR Journal — say Philadelphia must be added to everybody’s journey bucket listing for 2024.

Lonely Planet

In Lonely Planet’s “Finest In Journey” 2024 awards, Philly is an enormous winner.

The famend journey authority highlighted the highest 10 cities throughout the globe for vacationers to go to as a part of its bigger journey information of fifty locations to go to in 2024. And — you guessed it — Philly made the listing.

The truth is, the Metropolis of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection is one in all solely two U.S. spots (alongside Kansas Metropolis) to make the “cities” listing. Additionally included: worldwide locations like Paris, Nairobi and Prague.

The publication’s awards committee particularly cited Philadelphia’s “kinetic vitality,” museums and thriving restaurant scene as causes for this win.

That award-winning restaurant scene claimed all 4 spots within the 2024 journey information’s Highlights overview. The write-up particularly known as out three of the town’s superior markets, together with:

Additionally namedropped: Zahav, the Israeli trendy standout which gained Excellent Restaurant on the 2019 James Beard Awards and stays one of many hardest reservations to verify within the metropolis.

Zahav
  — Photograph by D. Knoll for Go to Philadelphia

Time Out

Time Out writers took to the streets to curate their listing of “the 50 finest cities on the earth in 2024” — and guess who ended up on the listing.

The group surveyed metropolis residents from around the globe to get the within scoop on what it’s actually prefer to dwell of their hometowns — from how they spend their Saturday nights to how inexpensive are groceries.

Philadelphians repped the town laborious, with 92% of respondents reporting that they’re pleased right here. Time Out gave a nod to Philly’s unimaginable displaying on the 2023 James Beard Basis Awards however centered extra on how the town’s favourite eating places, facilities of exercise, and points of interest carry their historical past with them as they evolve. (One might say we’re not new to this however true to this.)

Particular callouts embody:

Bok Bar
  — Photograph by J. Fusco for Go to Philadelphia

AFAR Journal

AFAR dropped its selections for “the 25 most fun locations” on the earth for his or her “The place To Go in 2024” listing, and Philadelphia rounded out the highest 10 alongside locations resembling Fiji and Sydney, Australia.

Philly’s distinctive culinary and humanities scenes had been the draw for the AFAR group. They inspired vacationers to make the most of the fare at 2023’s Beard Award-winning eating places, together with the seasonal menu at Friday Saturday Sunday and the Thai delicacies at Kalaya.

Kalaya
  — Photograph by D. Knoll for Go to Philadelphia

The specialists at AFAR additionally steered friends make it out to the Rodin’s sculpture exhibition Rodin’s Palms and the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork’s pictures exhibition Within the Proper Place.

Extra Accolades & Awards for Philly

2023 was a very good 12 months for accolades in Philadelphia:

For much more, take a look at our roundup of awards and accolades from publications like Journey + Leisure, the New York Instances, Bon Appétit, the James Beard Basis, Condé Nast Traveler and extra.