New York Times Names 52 Places to Go in 2016 and Shares How Each Location is Chosen

January 12, 2016

Each January, the editors of the NY Times Travel section publish their Places to Go issue. And each year after they do, readers wonder why their favorite destination was overlooked or why their least favorite made the top 10. To add some clarity to the process, the editors answer some frequently asked questions about how they chose the 52 Places to Go in 2016. How do you start the process? First we contact dozens of contributing writers, many of them based overseas, for suggestions. We receive a few hundred ideas, and start with those. What are you looking for in those ideas? We aim for a selection of places that we expect to be particu...