The British Virgin Islands trade in the glitz and high-rise hotels of its Caribbean neighbors for a more secluded and nature inspired tourist retreat. The pure and unspoiled land is its main attraction – verdant hillsides covered in ancient mahogany trees and cacti and pristine beaches bathed by turquoise waters.

Since the birth of Las Vegas over sixty years ago, casinos were considered a sufficient attraction to be the main draw for a resort or destination. This has been changing and continues to change at an accelerating pace.

In our search for the hot new destinations of 2012, Travel Agent reached out to our recent Top 25 Agents for their insights. Here is a sampling of the European destinations where your clients, especially your veteran travelers, will want to go next year—and beyond.

The Cayman Islands’ tourism industry is being destroyed, a few hundred dollars at a time. Increasing numbers of armed robberies are taking place in public places frequented by tourists at earlier and earlier times.

Today Niagara Falls and its surroundings attract more than 11 million national and international visitors yearly, bringing in a half billion dollars.

Following the killing of two French young women tourist-packers in the northern Argentine province of Salta --with criminals still at large-- the issue of security, safety and crime in Argentina has been widely exposed in the European and Unite States media, particularly the so-called ‘express kidnapping”.