Travel + Leisure has named its 19th annual It List of the best new and renovated hotels around the globe. This year for the first time the list includes newly launched luxury cruise ships.
Travel + Leisure‘s guide of can’t miss openings (and re-openings) covers everything from boutique hotels in Morocco and Portugal to grand resorts along the beaches of Mexico and Greece. The selected hotels and cruise ships span 39 countries across six continents and represent a variety of categories such as Best New City Hotels and Best New Affordable Luxury Hotels, showcasing the broad spectrum of travel experiences.
T+L editors and reporters visited nearly 130 of more than 200 flagged properties over the last 12 months to compile their list. The 2024 It List features four cruise lines, 36 hotels in North America, 26 in Europe, 7 in the Caribbean and Central and South America, 10 in Africa and the Middle East, 14 in Asia, and three in Australia.
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Those Australian properties included:
- Pelorus Private Island on the Great Barrier Reef – as profiled in LATTE in February.
- Positioned 8th in the ‘Most Luxurious New Hotels of 2023‘ category.
- Southern Ocean Lodge, Kangaroo Island
- Positioned 12th in the ‘Most Luxurious New Hotels of 2023‘ category.
- Capella Sydney
- Positioned 2nd of 26 in the ‘Best New City Hotels of 2023′
