New Hotels With ‘Conscious Luxury’ Are What’s Stoking Our Wanderlust
These eight luxury hotels opened in 2022 with such strong sense of place and real eco cred that I can’t help but reach for my passport.
Nobu’s Santorini outpost is also available for “daycationers.”
Source: Nobu Hotel Santorini
Upscale hotels continue to make a concerted effort to blend into their natural environment with minimal disruption, whether it’s a bustling city or a small surfing town. This strong sense of place is welcomed. There’s also an increased wave of conscious luxury that I find encouraging—properties are being transparent with guests on their current and future efforts to minimize their carbon footprint, as well as projects that guests can engage in to protect the environment or benefit the surrounding community.
From a glamorous refurbished 19th century hotel in the heart of historic Edinburgh to a lavish hacienda-style boutique escape in the Galápagos, these eight hotels balance comfort and seclusion with an invitation to get close with the outdoors and get social again with locals and fellow guests.