Malta is one of the 10 nations listed by Lonely Planet as the place to go in 2018.

Lonely Planet has put San Juan, Puerto Rico, on its list of best cities to visit in 2018.

The list was compiled before Hurricane Maria hit. A fourth of island residents are still without potable running water, 80 percent lack electricity and only 10 percent of the island's 5,000 miles of roads open.

Baily Freeman, a Lonely Planet editor, says the publisher believes San Juan "will be back on its feet for travellers in 2018."

San Juan is No. 8 on the list. Seville, Spain, is No. 1, followed by Detroit; Canberra, Australia; Hamburg, Germany; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Antwerp, Belgium; and Matera, Italy. Guanajuato, Mexico, and Oslo are ninth and tenth.

Lonely Planet's top 10 countries for 2018 are Chile, South Korea, Portugal, Djibouti, New Zealand, Malta, Georgia, Mauritius, China and South Africa.

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world