Intrepid “Not Hot” list inspires travel to lesser-known spots
Intrepid Travel has released its annual Not Hot List, featuring 10 lesser-known destinations that deserve the spotlight for travel in 2025.
Intrepid’s annual Not Hot Listseeks to address overtourism by inspiring travellers to discover different and unique experiences around the world, with communities that can truly benefit from more visitors.
The list includes alternative regions in popular countries like Morocco, where the Anti-Atlas Mountains are often missed by visitors, and emerging destinations like Pakistan and Greenland, where neighbouring countries have commanded most of the spotlight. This year marks Intrepid’s most comprehensive Not Hot List to date, including third-party stats, trends and local insight in regions that are seeking to encourage travel in 2025.
In contrast to tourist taxes, crowded viewpoints, and frustrated locals, travellers to these Not Hot List destinations can expect trips that forge meaningful connections far beyond the typical tourist experience.
The full list includes:
1. Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
2. (Qeqertarsuaq) Disko Island, Greenland
3. Cape York, Australia
4. Adirondacks, New York
5. Sainshand, Mongolia
6. Rupununi Savannah, Guyana
7. Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
8. Accra, Ghana
9. Maldonado, Uruguay
10. Oslo, Norway
“Our annual Not Hot List strives to bring travelers off the tourist track and inspire them to consider lesser-known destinations, while helping to spread the benefits of tourism to places where it can have an outsized positive impact on communities and local economies,” said Erica Kritikides general manager of global product for Intrepid Travel. “We recognize the reality of overtourism in some destinations and continuously evolve our trips to help disperse travelers to new and exciting places and provide
opportunities to travel at different times of the year.”
“While promoting alternative destinations is a small part of the solution to overtourism, we remain committed to addressing the bigger issues through our product design. Our group size is very small (average of 10 travellers), we only employ local leaders and almost exclusively use locally owned accommodation and suppliers. Developing tourism in concert and consultation with host communities is the best way to combat the negative effects of overtourism,” Kritikides adds.
To support the development of tourism in these destinations, Intrepid has launched brand-new trips in four of the Not Hot locations featured: a 10-Day Intrepid Greenland Expedition, a 15-Day Benin, Togo and Ghana Adventure, an 11-Day Trans Mongolian Railway Adventure, and an 11-Day Cape York & Torres Strait Explorer. These are all in addition to Intrepid’s 10-Day Pakistan trekking trip which first ran in 2024.
To learn more about each of these destinations, download Intrepid’s 2025 Not Hot List here.
