Announcing the 2022 Hot List Winners

The most exciting new openings in travel, from the fresh-faced hotels we’d plan a trip around to boundary-pushing dining, museums, and more. BY CNT EDITORS

Each year, we index the best, brightest openings, but for the 26th edition of Condé Nast Traveler’s Hot List, we’ve upped the ante: This time, editors at all seven worldwide editions had a hand in scouting and selecting the entries. At its heart, this is still a hotel list—a whopping 96 made the cut this year, which is a true testament to the industry’s resilience. Because (almost) no hotel is an island, we’ve widened the lens to include the restaurants, culture, transportation, and cruises you need to know, and the destinations that are reinventing themselves. We mean it when we say this may be the hottest Hot List yet. Here, the best new hotel openings in the world.

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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry — Uruguay

One of the most talked-about cultural openings in Latin America is MACA, Uruguay’s first contemporary art museum. Designed by Carlos Ott, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry looks like the skeleton of a futuristic vessel; an ode to the landscape, the undulating structure rests on slanted beams made of local eucalyptus trunks, while on the pastoral perimeter are abstract marble sculptures carved by Pablo Atchugarry, the Uruguayan-born artist who masterminded the entire project. Inside are three main exhibition areas, one holding a permanent collection focused on celebrated regional artists like Julio Le Parc, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Joaquín Torres García, and Ernesto Neto; the other two are reserved for temporary international exhibits. (The museum's January opening kicked off with a retrospective of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, of the famed Central Park Gates.) —Paola Singer

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