Mexico’s hottest travel trends in 2025

The wintertime holidays are agelong gone, and radical are starting to deliberation astir their adjacent vacation. Where should they spell for outpouring break? Thinking longer term, what are the champion destinations this summer? I spoke to immoderate question agents to observe which destinations successful Mexico are question trends successful 2025 and why. 

From relaxing formation destinations to immersive taste experiences, these places connection travelers precisely what they’re looking for. Which 1 volition you prime for your abrogation this year?

Where to spell for leisure

Punta Mita 

Punta Mita offers each the comforts of Puerto Vallarta without immoderate of the bustle. It’s besides a large gateway to the Riviera Nayarit. (Gearminded)

“Without a doubt, Punta Mita is presently the trendiest destination successful Mexico,” Travel Advisor Nayeli Godínez, who’s been advising travelers astir the satellite for 10 years, told maine implicit the phone. 

Located connected the northbound extremity of Bahía de Banderas, astir 10 miles northbound of the edifice metropolis of Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita has go the ultimate luxury question cluster successful the Riviera Nayarit, and arguably, successful Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Some of the biggest names successful hospitality are settled there, from Auberge to the Four Seasons and St. Regis. 

Tourism successful the country has rocketed since the opening of the One & Only Mandarina. 

“Several luxury hotels person opened determination successful the past fewer years, including the One and Only Mandarina. But what’s truly drafting attraction present is the upcoming Rosewood Mandarina, which volition unfastened this year,” Godínez says.  

Rosewood successful Punta Mita volition beryllium the group’s 4th edifice successful Mexico. All its rooms volition diagnostic a backstage excavation and terrace, restaurants specializing successful antithetic satellite cuisines and beachfront nutrient places.

But contempt the peninsula’s accelerated development, Punta Mita’s exclusive resorts person ensured low-density tourism, keeping the region’s authenticity alive. 

Riviera Maya

Playa Punta Esmeralda, connected the Riviera Maya, Mexico’s sparkling Caribbean coast. (Elizabeth Ruiz/Cuartoscuro)

With its lush jungles, pristine waters and Maya taste heritage, the Riviera Maya has remained a apical planetary formation destination since its tourism roar successful the seventies. Blending jungle and beach, a vibrant enactment country and past culture, the Yucatán Península offers thing to each benignant of traveler. 

“The entreaty of destinations similar Cancún is that you tin unbend connected the beach, and connected the aforesaid time instrumentality a thrust to Mérida and devour astatine Chablé, a beauteous edifice successful an aged hacienda nestled successful the jungle,” question advisor Daniela Arregui told me.

With inactive untouched beaches acceptable afar from populous resorts, the Riviera Maya has besides emerged arsenic a wellness destination beyond its representation arsenic a spring-break hotspot. 

SHA Wellness is 1 illustration of this, says Nayeli Godínez. Offering its guests assorted wellness programs, the European wellness retreat marque opened 2 years agone and has attracted hundreds of planetary travelers who question to amended their manner and wellness successful paradisiac settings. 

Where to spell for culture

Mexico City

The Palacio de Bellas Artes, a Mexico City icon. (Claudia Beatriz Aguilar/CC SA 3.0)

“There’s truthful overmuch to bash successful Mexico City,” Arregui says. “We person everything from museums to aggregate restaurants serving planetary cuisines, and more.”

Mexico City, which was underperforming successful presumption of tourism astir a decennary ago, is present 1 of the astir visited destinations successful the country. In 2024, Mexico City International Airport ranked arsenic the busiest airdrome successful Mexico, with rider postulation of 37 cardinal past year.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the metropolis has not lone go fashionable among planetary tourists but besides distant workers who gain successful dollars oregon euros and walk successful pesos. “And 1 attraction that has propelled the city’s popularity is Soho House,” Nayeli Godínez said. 

The members-only Soho House Mexico City sits successful an early-20th period mansion astatine the bosom of La Juárez, 1 of the neighborhoods booming with foreigners. The location has made nationalist headlines acknowledgment to its iconic parties and creation docket for large creation events. 

San Miguel de Allende 

Bellas Artes successful San Miguel de Allende. (INBAL)

“We’re seeing a batch of requests for taste trips,” Nayeli Godínez told me, adding that San Miguel de Allende has stayed astatine the forefront of tourism since it was named the champion metropolis successful the satellite by Travel and Leisure readers. 

People spell to Guanajuato metropolis to acquisition Mexico’s charm, a operation of assemblage practice and Indigenous roots. The metropolis is fashionable for the iconic Parroquia de San Miguel, and its cobblestone streets lined with colorful houses. 

“You tin spot the destination’s popularity with the level of hospitality and of course, the prices,” Godínez said. 

Some high-end luxury hotels see Rosewood, renowned for its terrace overlooking downtown San Miguel oregon Casa Sierra Nevada, named Mexico’s champion edifice by Condé Nast magazine. Others see Hotel Matilda and Live Aqua Urban Resort.

Oaxaca

The past metropolis of Monte Alban is simply a large tourer attraction for visitors to Oaxaca. (DavidConFran/Wikimedia)

Oaxaca metropolis has flourished among foreigners arsenic a taste destination, Godínez says. 

“Since the World’s 50 Best Restaurants and the Michelin Guide arrived successful Oaxaca, tourism has rocketed,” she told me. 

The Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards were held successful Oaxaca for the archetypal clip successful November 2021. Two section restaurants entered the list: Pitiona, by cook José Manuel Baños, and Casa Oaxaca, by cook Alejandro Ruiz. 

Choosing Oaxaca for the 50 Best events highlighted the city’s presumption arsenic a premier gastronomic destination with an breathtaking nutrient country focusing connected Mexican cuisine. The metropolis is besides home to 2 one-star Michelin restaurants: Los Danzantes Oaxaca and Levadura de Olla.

“As with San Miguel, you tin spot Oaxaca is simply a inclination owed to the level of hospitality. New hotels are arriving, and prices are spiking,” Godínez said.

Gabriela Solis is a Mexican lawyer turned full-time writer. She was calved and raised successful Guadalajara and covers business, culture, manner and question for Mexico News Daily. You tin travel her manner blog Dunas y Palmeras.