Last Word: Wherever Next?

Among the questions 
I am asked most frequently is, “Where is the next new place?” The other day, while contemplating my travel schedule for the coming winter, I found myself 
struggling to arrive at an answer. Twenty years ago, countries joined the world of luxury travel with convenient regularity. But when I spin the globe in my office nowadays, “new” places are conspicuous by their absence. Last year, the Republic of the Congo looked promising, thanks to a new jungle gorilla camp. But the Ebola outbreak has scuppered that trip for a while. And with 20,000-foot mountains and a fascinating Andean culture, Bolivia is a place that ought to have Harper-worthy properties. But none has yet appeared.

So in 2015, it looks as though I shall have to content myself with countries that I have previously visited, but which have rapidly burgeoning profiles: Mozambique, for instance, with its 1,500 miles of glorious white-sand beaches. And maybe Cambodia, where there are new hotels, as well as a new Aqua riverboat on the Mekong. And I suppose I’d better head back to French Polynesia to check out the fancy new resort on Tetiaroa, the island once owned by Marlon Brando. Not too shabby, I guess.