Who operates it as against who owns it, how many keys, where the money went and where it did not. Openings, reopenings and the groups behind them.
The eighteen-storey landmark at 59th and Fifth will close for work on the facade Henry Janeway Hardenbergh designed in 1907, with 378 staff being placed elsewhere through their union.
Inside Brazil’s Iguaçu National Park, Belmond’s rose-pink hotel gives guests a compelling reason to stay overnight: access to the falls before the park opens and after the day visitors leave.
Red Door, an approximately 2,000-square-foot residence inside the Roque Tudesqui House, gives the Santa Fe hotel a fully residential key with two private courtyards and a dining room for ten.
After five years under Rosewood, Le Guanahani is entering a new chapter. Airelles is taking over the storied Saint-Barth address — marking the French hotel group’s first move into the Caribbean.
The red carpet is on the Lido. The better question is where everyone disappears afterwards.
A Ritz-Carlton on the Caspian at Zagulba, a second residential tower in Baku and a 152-room Le Meridien in Tbilisi's Chugureti district add up to 752 rooms and residences, with no dates attached.
The Pacific archipelago 20 miles off Panama's coast puts its entire guest capacity on one island and leaves the other thirteen wild, with a solar-powered operation and a conservation foundation attached.
The brand’s first urban Reserve is set to open on Shanghai’s North Bund in 2030 — an unexpected move for a collection that has traditionally preferred far-flung coastlines to city skylines.
Hotel Lürzerhof has reopened following an extensive EUR€10 million transformation, unveiling an adults-only rooftop wellness sanctuary amidst the Radstädter Tauern mountains.
Jacu Strauss has reworked the Southbank hotel's Thames Apartment and Riverview Suites for 2026, and a Gordon Ramsay partnership is due later this year. Suitcase checked into a 65sq m balcony suite, from £550.
Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels has approved HK$2.1 billion to renovate The Peninsula Hong Kong and The Peninsula Tokyo, while projects in Shanghai and Palawan reflect the same strategic shift: in today's luxury market, the highest returns increasingly come from reinvesting in exceptional hotels rather than building new ones.
A 19-suite JW Marriott lands in Kenya's Solio Game Reserve just as Virgin rebuilds Ulusaba from the ground up. The design is careful and the loyalty scheme is real, but safari value has always been decided elsewhere.
Park Hyatt Tokyo shut for 19 months to refine 171 rooms and deliberately leave one bar alone. San Antonio's 1909 Gunter has spent USD 57 million on its first phase. Las Vegas is quietly redoing thousands of keys. The hardest decision in each case was what not to touch.
A tented camp on stilts in Kafue National Park, three new treetop lodges in Touraine and a year-long renovation in Moab all claim the wilderness as their subject. Only one of them lets the site set the terms.
Aspen Hospitality is spinning The Little Nell into a brand, Pelican Hill becomes the first St. Regis Estate, Marriott signs two all-inclusive conversions with Catalonia, and Accor commits 5,300 rooms in Vietnam with Sun Group.
Read the year's global winners against the regional lists and a pattern emerges: Spain and Italy are absorbing more new openings than anywhere in Europe, Japan and India are running deep benches, and the Gulf has stopped being a single-city story.
Read the 30th edition of the Hot List against the 29th and a pattern emerges: rooms out, spa in, and a word quietly added to the cheapest category. A comparison of two years of hotel openings, by the numbers.
Condé Nast Traveler's new-hotel list has quietly redrawn its American geography — from private islands to 200-key branded resorts in the Caribbean, from a Mexico-heavy South America list to an actual Peru-to-Brazil one, and, in the US, into old buildings.
Six Senses lands in a 1911 department store, Valor puts 42 keys yards from the Old Course, JW Marriott pitches 19 tents on a rhino conservancy and Fairmont books a 2028 arrival under Mount Yotei. The common thread is proximity, not design.
Hilton is putting a Waldorf Astoria into a 20-storey Collins Avenue tower and LXR into a Waikiki building it left standing. The Driskill has finished a rebuild before its 140th birthday. Ground-up luxury in the US now arrives in 2028 at the earliest.
Two long-stay operators moved on London's periphery this week: Edyn opened Locke London Canary Wharf with Holloway Li interiors and modular guestrooms, while Lamington Group retired the Room2 name in favour of a new brand, Second Nature.
Roar abstracts Amazigh weaving into the architecture of Story Le Carrousel Rabat while LW turns Najdi textiles and Al Sadu geometry into a 210-key W at Riyadh's financial district. Two answers to the same brief, and one telling blind spot.
A Georgian terrace in Bath, a 1937 London car park and a 1960s Stockholm landmark are all being converted into hotels — by Providence Hotels, Hyatt and Ruby respectively.
New destinations, hotel openings and what our editors thought of them. Written for people who travel slowly.
