Destinations
The countries where something is happening in hotels.
United States
The most active hotel market in the world, and the one where the gap between a good opening and a significant one is widest.
124 openings in 2026 (83 in 2025)
Canada
A market where international collections are still arriving, and where the most interesting openings tend to come from independent operators.
17 openings in 2026 (15 in 2025)
United Kingdom
London has driven a remarkable cycle of new-build and newly-converted luxury hotels since 2020, with Edinburgh, Manchester and Newcastle each adding their own lifestyle and boutique arrivals.
39 openings in 2026 (22 in 2025)
Australia
A market spread evenly across four cities, where lifestyle brands have moved faster than traditional luxury groups.
27 openings in 2026 (18 in 2025)
New Zealand
A small but concentrated market, with nearly every significant new opening landing in Auckland.
6 openings in 2026 (3 in 2025)
Singapore
A city-state that keeps replacing rather than merely renovating: a demolished Orchard Road tower rebuilt from scratch, a colonial artillery outpost turned into a 40-room hideaway, and Ennismore's and Shun Tak's first Southeast Asian footholds, all opened since 2019.
6 openings in 2026 (3 in 2025)
Ireland
Dublin has drawn four international lifestyle-brand debuts inside eighteen months — Press Up's Leinster and Chancery, Ennismore's Hoxton and IHG's Ruby Molly — while Accor builds its first Irish Sofitel onto Dublin Airport's Terminal 2, and Cork adds a Press Up design hotel on the Lee alongside a first Hilton for the city.
2 openings in 2026 (2 in 2025)
Hong Kong
A harbour city that has spent this cycle rebuilding its grand-hotel history as often as adding to it: a 1960s government tower reimagined by Foster + Partners, InterContinental Hong Kong's three-year rebirth as Regent on the site of its 1980 original, and Rosewood's and St. Regis's Hong Kong debuts, opened between 2017 and 2025.
0 openings in 2026 (2 in 2025)
United Arab Emirates
Dubai has opened at least fourteen editorially notable hotels since 2017 — a private island for Bulgari, the world's tallest hotel, Kerzner's first urban One&Only — while Abu Dhabi, smaller in volume, counters with genuine one-offs: a world-first Warner Bros. hotel and an Ottoman-palace-styled resort on Saadiyat Island.
8 openings in 2026 (3 in 2025)