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What the 2027 Virtuoso Luxe Report, drawn from more than 3,100 travel advisors in 50+ countries, says about where luxury travellers will go next year, how they will travel, and what has changed since 2026.
The trade wind as therapy — a clifftop yoga session above the California Lighthouse, the spa at a Manchebo Beach hotel that uses the island's aloe (grown here since the sixteenth century), and an afternoon at a deserted Eagle Beach with a hammock between the divi-divi trees. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Aruba, The Caribbean, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$6,800 per traveler.
The volcanic island's geothermal gifts — a sulphur mud bath at Soufrière's warm springs, a deep-rainforest waterfall walk, and the spa at a Piton-view hotel whose treatments use the island's sea-salt, cocoa and tropical botanicals. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in St Lucia, The Caribbean, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$6,800 per traveler.
The Dominican coast as a deliberate rest — a private villa with a beach path, a spa that uses locally grown cacao and sea-salt from the Samaná peninsula, a morning meditation on the beach before the resort umbrellas are set, and a yoga class taught by a teacher who moved here from Tulum. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Punta Cana, The Caribbean, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$4,800 per traveler.
The Yucatán cenote system as a natural hydrotherapy circuit — a private cenote at dawn, a temazcal sweat lodge with a Mayan shaman above the jungle, and a spa at a design-led Tulum lodge where the treatment rooms are open to the forest canopy. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Riviera Maya, The Caribbean, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$4,800 per traveler.
A lake-view lodge with a spa built over the thermal water that feeds from the volcano — a morning hike, an afternoon soak, a chef who uses the lake trout and the Andean herbs that grow in the lodge's own garden. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Bariloche, Latin America, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$5,800 per traveler.
The Seto Inland Sea island as a contemplative retreat — a morning walk through the Benesse Art Site before any visitor, the Ando bath-house I Love Yu for an afternoon soak, and the Chichu garden walked at the hour the light through the glass panels creates the effect the architect intended. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Naoshima, Japan, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$7,200 per traveler.
The mountain onsen towns navigated with a private guide — the Gora hot spring for the morning, the Ichinotani cold waterfall plunge for the afternoon, and the ryokan's private hinoki-wood bath drawn at the hour the mist descends on the Hakone range. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Hakone, Japan, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$5,800 per traveler.
The city's most contemplative quarter — a private shiatsu session in a Higashiyama machiya, a morning zazen at a Rinzai monastery temple, and the ryokan with a hinoki bath drawn from the mountain spring that runs beneath the property. A private, tailored journey of 6 Days · 5 Nights in Kyoto, Japan, designed end to end by a Forest Travel advisor — with Virtuoso privileges at the finest luxury hotels, from US$8,900 per traveler.
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