If you have spent the first four weeks of the year wondering, "what cultural events take place in 2025?", you're in luck. Spanning nine different countries and 12 cities across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, my curated edit of the most inspiring happenings in 2025 leaves only one thing left to do — get them in your diary so that they can inform your next getaway.
If it's true that passion tourism — the idea of booking holidays coinciding with cultural events we simply cannot bear to miss — is having a moment, as I discovered in drafting my Travel Trends 2025 Report, then I can only expect these 2025 events to become an integral part of some of our readers' art and design-led global itineraries. Because booking a stay at one of the best design hotels isn't enough to discover what's out there to explore this year, and these 2025 events offer an exclusive, interdisciplinary look at the future.
