Tripadvisor has announced the winners of the 2020 Travellers’ Choice Destination Award. Kochi emerged as the top trending location on Tripadvisor. Tripadvisor has announced the winners for the different categories like trending choice award, recognizing traveller loved destinations and emerging awards. The awards are based on positive reviews and ratings of the travellers in Tripadvisor over the last year.

Kochi topped the list of 25 tourist places in the world of trending location. The port city of Kerala has earned the bucket-list status by the huge spike in reviews, ratings and traveller interest in Tripadvisor over the last year. Kochi is followed by Luzon in the Philippines and Porto in Portugal respectively.  Trending and emerging destination award are determined using an algorithm which measured the increase in positive Tripadvisor traveller review ratings for accommodations, restaurants and attractions, and an increase in booking interest and searches across destinations worldwide. While Kochi topped the list of the top trending destination, Kaliningrad in Russia top the list of top emerging destination in 2020.

Earlier, Lonely Planet the famous travel magazine has listed Kochi as one of the top 10 cities to visit in 2020. Fort Kochi as National Geographic Traveller must visit place in 2020.