Travel + Leisure Unveils Their 'It List'

5/17/2007 at 11:15 AM
Tags: Hotel Awards

Conde Nast has the "Hot List" so Travel + Leisure has the "It List" full of the 25 Best New Hotels this year.

Selected by the magazine's editors after anonymously road-testing numerous contenders, the IT LIST is Travel + Leisure's guide to the best new hotels, featuring six hotels in Europe; six in the U.S.; five in South America; and five in Asia. The remaining three hotels are in Panama, Mexico and South Africa. With hundreds of openings each year, Travel + Leisure's IT LIST pinpoints the hotels that are redefining service, design--even where travelers will be going next.

The Bowery Hotel in NYC (above) makes the list as a "Trailblazer". The Ritz Carlton Beijing is a "New Urbanist" while the Gramercy Park Hotel gets a nod for being a "Comeback Kid."

And funny enough, the Four Seasons Westlake Village makes the list under the "Healers" category. Could it be that's because (as one of our spies told us) that thanks to the next-door California Wellness Institute, it's where all the LA ladies go to recuperate from plastic surgery? Most likely.

The It List will appear in T+L's June issue, on newstands May 29.