Where tours go, and when, on one map

25 destinations, from Italy and Ireland to the Serengeti, Japan and the Canadian Rockies. That's 231 places in all: 70 cities where tours start or end, 106 towns and lodges where they spend the night, and 55 sights visited for the day, plus 105 classic routes drawn between them.

From our destination guides. Each line joins the towns a classic itinerary uses, in order, and names the companies that run it and the usual length. The lines are schematic: they show the order of stops, not the actual road or rail line.

Each destination's best months come from its guide: weather, crowds, closures and price. Where a guide documents the months tours depart, the map shows those too. A month outside the best ones isn't a month without tours, and it's often cheaper.

Every card lists the companies our guides show starting, staying or stopping there, including Abercrombie & Kent, Adventures by Disney, Amtrak, Amtrak Vacations, Avalon Waterways, Belmond, CIE Tours, Canyon Spirit and others. A company with a Seabound guide links to it.

Often, yes. When a town is also a cruise port or a river-cruise city on our atlas, its card shows the match, and Alaska, the Rockies, Lisbon, Budapest and Vancouver are common pairings. Our cruise and land-tour combos guide covers how the two fit together, and we can price both as one trip.