{"id":8199,"date":"2024-11-28T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T16:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T17:05:14","slug":"the-classical-christmas-destinations-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/blog-en\/the-classical-christmas-destinations-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The classical Christmas destinations ever\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nowadays, <strong>Christmas<\/strong> is not only a Christian festive celebration but also a cultural one, getting all people from different countries involved in this traditional event without any distinction, going beyond religion. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays Christmas is also identified as a cultural and popular event closely linked to the habits and customs of each Nation and therefore, its population. In this way, <strong>Christmas tourism<\/strong> represents an excellent opportunity to get to know more about this festivity and its traditional aspects in a foreign country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here they are again, New York, London and Edinburgh, three metropolises among the top five 2024 <strong>best<\/strong> <strong>Christmas<\/strong> <strong>destinations<\/strong>. They all have something special in common, like the unique Christmas atmosphere which is expressed the best in nordic landscape, widely decorated and lit up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some examples: <strong>New York<\/strong> with Times Square and Macy&#8217;s department store, <strong>London <\/strong>with Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park and the <strong>festivals of lights<\/strong>, then <strong>Edinburgh<\/strong>, with its illuminated Castle and traditional Scottish folk dances&#8230; and many others more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides, in these cities it is possible to find extra outdoor dedicated spaces for <strong>Christmas<\/strong> <strong>markets<\/strong>, ice skating and other sports, recreational activities, culture or music events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>tourism target<\/strong> is kind of global in these metropolitan areas, including all different ages of people, easy accessibility to sites, often with free-entrance to events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this purpose, these influential factors often play a role of primary importance among <strong>tourism<\/strong> <strong>destination<\/strong> choices, being <strong>tourists<\/strong> able to make the most of leisure opportunities during holidays, usually <strong>short-breaks<\/strong> or <strong>week-ends<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, this would not be conveniently possible in equally fascinating alternative and exclusive naturalistic destinations like <strong>Finnish Lapland<\/strong>, which is also among the top favorites in the ranking, but whose tourism target is more selected for this type of <strong>travel experience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, Christmas is not only a Christian festive celebration but also a cultural one, getting all people from different countries involved in this traditional event without any distinction, going beyond religion. \u00a0 Nowadays Christmas is also identified as a cultural and popular event closely linked to the habits and customs of each Nation and therefore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ribo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}