It’s about this time each year that Life & Leisure turns clairvoyant, offering predictions in luxury travel for the year ahead as part of our annual international hot list.
This one begins with a mea culpa. Last time around, we suggested 2026 would be a momentous year for the Middle East’s glamour states. We were right, of course, but for the wrong reasons. Rather than a golden age of travel, the Iran war broke out, requiring airlines and travellers to reroute their flights due to airstrikes in the region’s transit hubs.
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