Prepping for the Wall St. Journal

What’s hot in learning travel? The Wall Street Journal wanted to know. We got a call in our South Deerfield offices from Lara Naaman, who writes the Take offs and Landings column for the weekend Journal. We answered her after doing some research. Countries we think are the hottest destinations are Croatia, Antarctica, Italy, Thailand, Bostwana, and Egypt.

“People are looking for something new, different,” Gerel Dashdoorov, of Nomadic Expeditions told us. “That’s why Mongolia is a popular destination for us…people can stay in an ecolodge in the Gobi desert, and in Yurts with the horseback riding nomads. Until 1990, you couldn’t even go to Mongolia, and now you can and about 5-10,000 Americans go each year. We also heard about cooking classes in Croatia, where not using the euro makes everything cheaper, and that Costa Rica and Mexico lead the way for Spanish Abroad’s language courses overseas.