The CNN article includes recommendations from four travel experts: Robert Reid, U.S. travel editor for Lonely Planet; Martin Rapp, senior vice president of leisure sales at Altour; Anne Banas, executive editor at SmarterTravel; and Jeanenne Tornatore, senior editor for Orbitz.com, plus suggestions from Travel+Leisure and Budget Travel.

Here are nine of the top destinations for 2012: England; World of the Maya; Myanmar (Burma); Chicago; St. Vincent and the Grendadines; The Netherlands; Atlantic Canada; Uruguay; and Orlando !