Kansas City named prime trending US journey vacation spot in 2026

Blues, a zoo and barbecue are amongst key points of interest supplied by Kansas City, Missouri.

Soccer followers from all over the world will flock this yr to that metropolis, the place six World Cup video games will probably be performed between June 16 and July 11.

So it ought to be no shock that the Travel + Leisure website reported last month that knowledge from the Google Flights journey reserving web site identifies the City of Fountains as being the nation’s prime trending home journey vacation spot for 2026.

What have been the opposite hottest home locations?

Travel + Leisure used Google Flights knowledge to create lists of this yr’s prime 10 home and worldwide journey locations.

The designations have been based mostly on will increase in year-over-year flight searches for worldwide journeys departing from United States airports between June 1 and Aug. 31, Travel + Leisure stated.

“Known for incredible barbecue, Google found visitors to (Kansas City, Missouri) were excited to check out the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium and The Regnier Family Wonderscope Children’s Museum of Kansas City,” the location stated.

It recognized the next different locations as being among the many home Top 10:

2. Sarasota, Florida.

3. Asheville, North Carolina.

4. Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, with Dallas additionally being a World Cup host metropolis.

5. Fort Myers, Florida.

6. Panama City, Florida.

7. Missoula, Montana.

8. Burbank, California.

9. San Diego, California.

10. San Francisco, California, for which close by Santa Clara is a World Cup host metropolis.

What have been the most well-liked worldwide locations?

Travel + Leisure recognized the most well-liked worldwide locations as being the next:

1. St. Maarten on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten.
2. Mexico City, Mexico, which can also be a World Cup host metropolis.
3. Stockholm, Sweden.
4. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
5. Budapest, Hungary.
6. Tel Aviv, Israel.
7. Panama City, Panama.
8. Guangzhou, China.
9. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
10. Santiago, Dominican Republic.

What are KCMO’s finest vacationer points of interest?

The Yelp crowd-sourcing evaluation web site as of May 6 recognized the next as being the ten finest vacationer points of interest in and close to Kansas City, Missouri:

1. Union Station.
2. National World War I Museum and Memorial.
3. Made in KC, a enterprise within the Country Club Plaza.
4. Graffiti Attic, a enterprise at Union Station.
5. Arabia Steamboat Museum, which can shut in November.
6. Vine Street Workhouse Castle.
7. Rock Island Bridge.
8. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
9. Science City.
10. Kansas City Gangster Tour.

Contact Tim Hrenchir at 785-213-5934 or threnchir@cjonline.com.