World's Best Alternative Travel Destinations

Justraveling has developed world’s first Alternative Travel Index to help identify the “most travelable” countries for those who avoid mass tourism and prefer to embrace original and more sustainable forms of travel.

To be listed here, a country needs to ensure a good level of security and sanitation, to excel in terms of convenience and basic infrastructure, and to be interesting from the naturalistic and cultural point of view. Click on each country name to access the corresponding travel guide. To learn more about how the Alternative Travel Index is calculated, please refer to this detail page.

Top 20 Alternative Travel Destinations

Rank	Country	Rank	Country	Rank	Country
1	Spain	8	Switzerland	15	Hungary
2	Japan	9	Germany	16	Italy
3	Canada	10	Austria	17	Iceland
4	Australia	11	Sweden	18	Slovakia
5	Finland	12	Denmark	19	Bulgaria
6	Portugal	13	Czech Republic	20	Belgium
7	France	14	Norway

Top 20 Most Underrated Travel Destinations Includes the countries that get the highest score in proportion to the number of tourists they receive annually

Rank	Country	Rank	Country	Rank	Country
1	Japan	8	Norway	15	Czech Republic
2	Finland	9	Slovenia	16	Romania
3	Australia	10	Spain	17	Lithuania
4	Iceland	11	Denmark	18	Serbia
5	Portugal	12	Mongolia	19	Latvia
6	Canada	13	New Zealand	20	Bulgaria
7	Switzerland	14	Slovakia

Top 10 Eco/Active Travel

Rank	Country
1	Australia
2	Canada
3	Finland
4	Switzerland
5	Denmark
6	Iceland
7	New Zealand
8	Sweden
9	Norway
10	Slovenia

Top 10 Cultural Travel

Rank	Country
1	Spain
2	Japan
3	Portugal
4	France
5	Czech Republic
6	Austria
7	Belgium
8	Germany
9	Hungary
10	Bulgaria

Below you can see the world’s best alternative travel destinations on a map (dark gray ones). Just click on them to get all the relevant information, including travel costs, best time to go, places to visit, vacation ideas, and things to do.