The main changes to the site, newest first. Each guide also shows its own "Last updated" date. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

  • City guides now link to the World Heritage Atlas, When to go and upcoming events in that city
  • Finished events no longer appear in event listings
  • Events are now included in site search

  • Edinburgh guide updated

  • Rewritten with official sources: Dubai, Florence, Seoul, San Francisco, Dubrovnik and Marrakech

  • 10 new UNESCO World Heritage guides, including Cologne Cathedral, Hallstatt, Cinque Terre, Tallinn and Ha Long Bay
  • All 302 UNESCO World Heritage guides rewritten in clearer, shorter sentences
  • UNESCO guides now show an "On this page" menu, a last updated date and the sources we checked
  • Simpler descriptions on 141 World Heritage Atlas cards, and corrections to inaccurate cards
  • New destinations: Melbourne, Brussels, Salzburg, Valencia and Washington DC
  • Expanded guides for Paris, London, New York, Madrid, Kyoto, Rome, Tokyo, Istanbul, Athens, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Venice and Santorini

  • Longer, more detailed UNESCO World Heritage guides
  • 220 guide pages for Swiss, Norwegian and Swedish cities expanded

  • Small location maps added to guide, city, experience and event pages
  • Photo credits added to UNESCO World Heritage guides

  • New World Heritage Atlas: an interactive map of 500 UNESCO sites with a personal visited tracker
  • 302 new UNESCO World Heritage guide pages
  • New When to go tool: find where the weather suits you in any month, with a map, trip style filter and city comparison

  • New destinations: Queenstown, Almaty and Panama City
  • Saved places and trip plans are easier to reach on phones and tablets
  • Event venues and dates checked against official announcements

  • New destinations across South America, including Buenos Aires, Cusco, Santiago, Bogotá, Cartagena, Quito, Montevideo, La Paz, Salvador and Medellín
  • New destinations: Cairo, Reykjavik and Auckland
  • Trip planner: hour-by-hour plans, PDF download with photos and shareable plan links
  • Save button added to sub-guides, vlogs and region pages
  • Embassies and consulates now have their own page
  • 97 facts corrected across the site, with a weekly accuracy check
  • Events are published only after an official announcement

  • New destinations: Nice and Nuuk
  • New guide: a day trip to Çameli, with our own photos, videos and route map
  • City pages now list embassies and consulates from official sources
  • Photo descriptions in 15 cities matched to what the photos show

  • New destinations in Switzerland, Norway and Sweden: Zurich, Geneva, Lucerne, Interlaken, Zermatt, Bern, Tromsø, Stavanger, Trondheim, Ålesund, Gothenburg, Malmö, Uppsala and Visby
  • New cover photos for 30 city guides

  • JourneyCities can now be installed as an app on phones and computers
  • New destinations: Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg

  • Works offline: pages you have opened stay available without a connection
  • New destinations: Mexico City, Naples and Moscow
  • Updated privacy policy