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Hot destinations, budget-friendly vacations: Expert shares travel trends

WASHINGTON — If reading the newspaper means skimming all but the travel section, and scrolling through social media morphs into studying every post tagged #wanderlust, it might be time for a vacation.

Dust off your passport and pack your bags: Georgina Dee, publishing director of DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, shared some of the best places to visit this year and next:

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