Tiers of whitewashed houses tumbling down to impossibly blue coves, charming tavernas serving the classics in sleepy villages ...

Sunset streaks the sky above the blue-domed church, staining its whitewashed walls the colour of a cosmopolitan cocktail. At the foot of the hill, 200 metres below, the Aegean Sea has turned bronze.

Travel company research shows where visitors choose to go, from the snow-kissed alpine peaks of France to the ancient Aztec ...