Dubai named in top 10 cities to visit in the world in 2020 by Lonely Planet

The “boundary pushing” emirate is ranked alongside Salzburg, Washington DC and Cairo

Denver, Colorado is number 10 on Lonely Planet's best cities to visit in 2020 list.

Dubai is listed at number nine in the rankings by the travel experts. Rustam Azmi / Getty Images

Canada's Vancouver is ranked number 8 in Lonely Planet's cities to visit in 2020 list.

Kochi makes the cut as Lonely Planet's seventh-favourite city to visit in 2020. Getty Images

Bolivia’s La Paz is the sixth most recommend city to visit next year. Courtesy Caleidoscopic / Wikimedia Commons

Germany’s Bonn is getting set to celebrate Beethoven's 100th birthday in 2020 and is the fifth top city to visit in 2020.

Galway City in Ireland is ranked as Lonely Planet's fourth best city to visit next year. Courtesy Tourism Ireland

Cairo is on the hot-list, ranked as the third best city to visit by the travel experts at Lonely Planet. AFP

Washington DC is Lonely Planet's second city to visit in 2020. Courtesy of washington.org

Salzburg in Austria has been ranked the top city to visit in 2020 by Lonely Planet. Courtesy Salzburg Tourism

Dubai has been named as the ninth best city in the world to visit next year by the travel experts at Lonely Planet.

The "boundary pushing" emirate is listed in the Top 10 cities for travellers in Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2020, a yearly curation of destinations and experiences in travel covering the next twelve months.

“The future is now in Dubai” says the guide giving a nod to some of the emirate’s big-hitter events due to take place next year.

“Top billing, of course, goes to the six-month-long World Expo 2020,” says the guide. The Museum of the Future and The World's European-themed offshore playground also get credit for the city’s ranking in the top 10.

Taking the top slot on Lonely Planet's list is Salzburg. The Austrian city is pulling out all the stops as it celebrates 100 years of its annual Salzburg festival. Travellers hitting up the festivites can expect “one of the world’s greatest classical music shindigs” says Lonely Planet.

Washington DC is listed in second place. The District is set to commemorate the 100th anniversary of introducing the 19th Amendment - the law that finally gave American women the right to vote and is also going to be in the spotlight as the next US presidential election gets underway.

Egypt’s Cairo is the third top city to visit next year with credit given to the much-anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, a state-of-the art treasure of historical troves that is set to become the world’s largest one-civilisation-focused museum. The country’s new Sphinx Airport, located near the Cairo-Alexandria desert road, also gets a mention as being a handy hub for tourists at the Red Sea or in Luxor to add a pyramids/museum stop on to their itineraries.

Bohemian Galway in Ireland and Germany’s Bonn, which celebrates Beethoven's 100th birthday, round out the top five in Lonely Planet’s list and Bolivia’s La Paz is the sixth most recommend destination to visit next year.

India’s Kochi – which will host the contemporary Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2020 – is ranked in seventh place while Canada’s Vancouver squeezes in ahead of Dubai. Denver’s creative efforts score the USA city the final spot in the world’s best cities to visit next year.