It’s time to cast your vote in Travel + Leisure’s 2025 World’s Best Awards.
The survey is now open for you to cast your ballots for your favorite hotels, destinations, cruise lines, airlines, railway journeys, and more. And by sending in those votes your all-time favorite spots, you’ll be entered for a chance to win some seriously stellar travel and cash prizes, including a Viking Ocean Voyage for two to Australia and New Zealand, a $15,000 cash prize, or one of five other cash prizes.
And we know T+L readers have been traveling just about everywhere this year. According to UN Tourism, a whopping 790 million people traveled internationally in the first seven months of 2024, marking an 11 percent leap from 2023 numbers, and almost a complete return to pre-pandemic levels.
In particular, the Middle East had the biggest growth, with international arrivals jumping 26 percent above 2019 levels, followed by Africa increasing its tourism numbers by 7 percent over 2019. And, as the UN noted, both Europe and the Americas hit 99 percent and 97 percent of pre-pandemic arrivals, respectively. So we know you know all the hottest spots inside and out, and we want all your input on the best of the best spas, hotels, islands, cruise lines, airlines, and, of course, the hotels we simply cannot miss. (Don’t forget to vote on our newest categories, train trips, and villa rental companies, too.)
Your responses (which number in the hundreds of thousands each year) make T+L’s World’s Best Awards the most respected in the travel industry, helping to determine true hospitality excellence and assisting other travelers in understanding where they should go next. The 2025 results will be published in the August issue of T+L and online at travelandleisure.com. The survey will be live until Feb. 25, 2025, giving you ample time (four months) to think about your votes.
And while we know you’re already likely familiar with how our awards work, we invite you to take a look at some of the top World’s Best Awards articles from last year, including your 100 favorite hotels in the world, 15 favorite European cities, and the 25 dreamiest islands. Or, find all of your winning selections from 2024 here.
Your opinions for the survey should be based on experiences you’ve had within the last three years. So go ahead and vote now at tlwbavote.com and see if your favorite makes it to the top of the list.
