Conde Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler magazine is filled with the travel secrets of celebrated writers and sophisticated travelers. Each monthly issue features breathtaking destinations, including the finest art, architecture, fashion, culture, cuisine, lodgings, and shopping. With Condé Nast Traveler as your guide, you'll discover the best islands, cities, spas, castles, and cruises.

editor’s letter

word of mouth • THE PEOPLE, PLACES & IDEAS WE’RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW

ASK A LOCAL

SNOWBALL EFFECT • Across western North America, top resorts are adding more terrain, bigger and faster chairlifts, and new on-mountain lodging

WHERE FOOD IS ALWAYS IN STYLE • A new scene is cooking along Singapore’s iconic retail corridor

REAL WORLD • Through its galleries and annual festival, the resort Baha Mar is elevating art that showcases the everyday complexities of life in the Bahamas

BADRUTT’S PALACE

why we travel • EXPERIENCES THAT CHANGE THE WAY WE SEE THE WORLD

FAMILY

Southern Comfort • In Chile’s La Araucanía and Los Lagos regions, Betsy Andrews falls for the hearty cuisine of the Indigenous Mapuche people

Common Thread • At Johnstons of Elgin, a remote wool mill in the Scottish Highlands, Shane C. Kurup explores a prestigious fashion history

Forward March • Across Kenya, community initiatives are protecting the country’s wildlife and environment. By Mary Holland

THE 2025 GOLD LIST • For 31 years the editors of Condé Nast Traveler have been compiling this annual compendium of hotels and cruises we’ve discovered or fallen in love with all over again. We highlight them not only for their beauty or comfort or impeccable service, but also because we’ve developed deep emotional relationships with them. These are the hotels and cruises we recommend to our friends, that we tell stories about later. And this year, for the first time, we’re telling those stories in video form. To view them, and get more Gold List picks, visit our website.

ALL IN • Fun has never been hard to come by in Las Vegas, but the arrival of pro sports, the Sphere, and lavish new hotels has upped the ante. Wandering on and off the Strip, Jason Sheeler finds that all this world-building has made Vegas no less delightfully, wickedly, itself

in full bloom • Over the past three years, hotelier Fabrizio Ruspoli has turned an old olive farm south of Marrakech into the High Atlas’s most intoxicating garden retreat

the possibility of an island • Cuba may be facing tough times, but the country’s hoteliers, creators, and artists are forging a hopeful and beautiful way forward

high life • Tour guide and Dolomites native Marika Favé slicing through the snow atop the Marmolada glacier

ALAN CUMMING on CROSSING THE ATLANTIC