The Financial Times highlights the Savonlinna Opera Festival in its travel destination recommendations

British The Financial Times newspaper (FT) lists the Savonlinna Opera Festival as one of its recommended holiday destinations in its list published on Saturday 50 holidays to take in 2025. The magazine’s travel editors have gathered 50 travel destinations around the world for it.

The destinations are distributed to readers in chronological order from January to December, depending on when traveling to each destination is most convenient, for example with the opening of exhibitions or the start of Convenient travel routes. The Savonlinna Opera Festival starts in July, which is naturally also placed in FT’s travel calendar.

All the destination recommendations are of course not related to festivals, but they suggest, for example, the venues of popular television series.

It is telling that the very first tip tells how a traveler can avoid in Thailand The White Lotus -the rush of tourists presumably caused by the new third season of the series, which starts in mid-February. Such born in for example, for the previous season’s setting in Sicily and for the first season’s setting in Hawaii. The FT advises to avoid the filming location of the third season, the island of Koh Samui, and mentions alternatives.

FT also recommends a trip to Colombia in connection with the TV series, because the recent television adaptation Gabriel García Márquezin One Hundred Years of Solitude -book has sparked a new interest in the author’s homeland – even though the central setting of the book is the fictional village of Macondo.

To culture in addition to related destinations, FT recommends, for example, a horse-riding holiday in Kyrgyzstan, a cycling holiday in Portugal, a train trip in Mongolia and hiking in Pakistan or the Great Wall of China.

From the Savonlinna Opera Festival, FT highlights the famous singer guests of the unique performance venue Olavinlinna and next summer’s productions.