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editor’s letter

Conde Nast Traveler

The 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards

Hotels • As well-traveled guests, you are astute judges who sense when a property doesn’t meet your mood. Case in point: Many of your favorite hotels in Italy are almost entirely different from last year—and hint at a growing penchant for something more intimate

BE A PART OF IT • New York, New York—who didn’t want to claim it this year? Upper West Sider Gary Shteyngart rhapsodizes on why this is the city’s moment (the Knicks are just the start of it)

Matt Schulte of The Sazerac Bar at The Roosevelt New Orleans tells us where he goes when he’s not slinging some of the city’s best cocktails

GOLDEN TICKET • These days the best hotel amenity is no longer the room or the spa. It’s front-row seats and access to all-star players

Airlines • Loyalty to carriers like Delta and Qatar remains strong, with American Airlines and Air New Zealand seeing fresh interest off the heels of major fleet retrofits

Airports • Complete with indoor forests and immersive restaurants, these hubs can be more than infrastructure. The best are as transportive as the far-flung places they help take us to

At Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic Cannes • Head concierge Gilles Bastoni once had to transform a villa rented by a Middle Eastern royal family into a Moroccan-garden-themed party in two hours. The in-the-know Cannes native tapped the best floral companies in town to conjure a rose-filled Eden, along with a birthday cake for 50 people—and was even left with time to spare.

Grand Hotel Timeo, A Belmond Hotel, Taormina • This Italian grande dame overlooking the Ionian Sea began as a simple guesthouse in 1850 and has since evolved into one of the most luxurious hotels in Sicily—not to mention one of your favorites in Italy. Most recently it opened a brand-new Dior Spa featuring stunning mosaic floors, an infrared sauna, and a long menu of treatments (incorporating Dior products, naturally), such as sculpting facials and Ayurvedic therapies. Post-pampering, guests can dress up in a look befitting the property’s long lineage of fabulous guests (Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor among them) for a walk among the breezy garden’s orange trees.

Cities • Paris and Cape Town remain ever popular, but this year your attention turned to Asia, with Seoul clinching number one and Phnom Penh ascending to third place—a testament to the Cambodian capital’s transformation into one of the most exciting cities on the continent

Cruise • With no need to pack and repack your suitcase, there’s a reason the word cruising is synonymous with ease. Each of this year’s winners delivers impeccable service in the most diverse of surroundings—even at the ends of the earth

PLAY IT COOL • As temperatures and crowds surge during the European summer, a number of cruise lines are now expanding their sailings to help travelers experience the region in the offseason

At Raffes Singapore • No request is too big or small at this 139-year-old property. Recently a team of butlers was tasked with attending to a family who were superstitious when it comes to numbers: In Chinese culture, 4 is unlucky. At check-in, they were instead escorted to suite number 8, which is considered welcoming, and every aspect of the guests’ stay eliminated the unlucky number—even items arranged in quartets.

Artist and ceramist Biggie Marcel takes us on a jaunt through her...