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The 15 Most Astounding Hotel Openings Worldwide | DEPARTURES magazine

Legend Awards—and travel awards in general—typically revolve around hotel openings abroad. And as travel editors, our international travel is at least partially motivated by new hotel openings outside the U.S. Simply put, hotel openings abroad are one of the clearest signs that a certain destination is about to surge. A new luxury hotel can help the resurgence of a small town or the blossoming of a city. So, while we couldn’t visit any new international hotels in person over the last 12 months, we still felt the need to highlight the biggest hotel openings abroad. Here, the 2021 Legend Award honorees for best international hotel openings—vetted from afar.