29 April 2025
Travel Editors recognize IHG’s luxury and lifestyle brands
Annual awards announcements credit new examples of Six Senses, Regent and Kimpton.
29 APRIL 2025, LONDON: Each year, editors and experts from the world’s top travel titles gather to determine the best new hotels. These independently selected shortlists celebrate new ways of seeing the world and give readers a guiding light for future travel plans.
The IHG hotels listed within this year’s round ups include:
AFAR’S BEST NEW HOTELS OF 2025
Regent Santa Monica Beach
“unbeatable location across from the beach”
Six Senses La Sagesse
“wellness programs that feel connected to the place”
TRAVEL + LEISURE IT LIST
Awarded amongst the ‘Best New City Hotels’
Six Senses Kyoto
“The spa is a halcyon highlight”
Regent Shanghai on the Bund
“Every repeat stroll through the halls revealed a new artful detail”
“the Regent Experience agents were heaven-sent”
Awarded within ‘Best New US Resorts’
Regent Santa Monica Beach
“knock-your-socks-off delicious”
Recognised amongst ‘Best New Affordable Luxury Hotels’
Kimpton BEM Budapest
“neoclassical exterior belies the flamboyant, quintessentially Kimpton style within”
CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER HOT LIST
Six Senses Kyoto
“serene and crafted”
“In an expansive wellness space, modern science meets traditional healing”
Six Senses La Sagesse
“In classic Six Senses style, wellness is a key protagonist”
CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER WELLNESS & SPA AWARDS 2025
Six Senses Vana
“a destination of pure and noble intent”
“this discreet and ravishingly designed modern hideaway, vibrating with birdsong and the scent of jasmine, marked the dawn of a new era of wellbeing in India”
CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER: THE GOLD LIST 2025
Six Senses Zighy Bay
“Sustainability is at the core”
“the infrastructure is truly impressive”
These awards pay tribute to the journey IHG has been on to become one of the industry’s most innovative players. Strategic acquisitions and new brand launches over the past five has doubled IHG’s luxury and lifestyle portfolio from one to six brands with more than 500 properties spanning 70 countries.
The spotlight now turns to the 38th annual Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards with more than 300 IHG properties shortlisted and gathering votes. The longest running recognition in the travel industry, Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards is voted for by global readers of the magazine worldwide. To vote, visit: UK voting site | US voting site.
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For further information please contact:
Ellie Mainwaring
Global Senior Communications Manager
Luxury & Lifestyle Brands
[email protected]
+44 (0) 7823 372 559
About IHG®
IHG Hotels & Resorts (tickers: LON:IHG for Ordinary Shares; NYSE:IHG for ADRs) is a global hospitality company, with a purpose to provide True Hospitality for Good.
With a family of 20 hotel brands and IHG One Rewards, one of the world's largest hotel loyalty programmes with over 145 million members, IHG has more than 6,600 open hotels in over 100 countries, and a development pipeline of over 2,200 properties.
- Luxury & Lifestyle: Six Senses, Regent Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Vignette Collection, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, Hotel Indigo
- Premium: voco hotels, Ruby, HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, EVEN Hotels
- Essentials: Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Garner hotels, avid hotels
- Suites: Atwell Suites, Staybridge Suites, Holiday Inn Club Vacations, Candlewood Suites
- Exclusive Partners: Iberostar Beachfront Resorts
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