These 2025 Global Vision Awards winners will help you vacation while supporting the planet.

We also show them a good time.

Its already doubled in size since 2023.

Three photos showing surf, trees, and sky with the Travel + Leisure Global Vision Awards banner

The $57 million first phase has already helped transform this waterfront attraction into a test-bed for sustainable architecture.

The effort has so far transformed more than 10 tons of flowers from would-be rubbish into fragrant souvenirs.

The true luxury, says cofounder Sander Ejlenberg, is having the forest to yourself.E.G.

Pilot Teara Fraser inside a plane

HBD Principe

COURTESY OF HBD PRINCIPE

Dont let Sao Tome and Principes compact size fool you.

The country gained independence in 1975, but decades of unemployment followed.

Its now Principes largest private employer, with four boutique resorts.

A trio of watches, one each with a black, pink, and blue band, on aqua colored tiles

Sundy Praia, situated where the ancient rain forest meets the gold-sand coast, is the most luxurious.

A woman holds a fishing net for recycling

A red and white plane on an ice field in Antarctica

A cabin in the Dutch forest, with a woman sitting on the deck

Aerial view of a guest resort in Sao Tome and Principe

An aerial view of a cruise port destination in Alaska

A group of people birdwatching on a raised platform

White tourist domes in the Antarctic landscape

A smiling pilot named Teara Fraser stands behind a wing of her plane

A cabin in the Dutch forest, with a woman sitting on the deck

Cabiner, in partnership with the Dutch forestry service, builds sleek structures in less visited areas of the northern Netherlands.Credit:Courtesy of Cabiner

A small yellow and green hunting lodge on a Georgia barrier island

The Hunting Lodge on Little St. Simon’s Island.Lindsey Harris Shorter

Pair of photos from the Hotel Bayerischer Hof’s in Munich, one showing a sitting area, and one showing a restaurant table

From left: Hotel Bayerischer Hof, in Munich, which is part of the Sustainable Leaders collection; Atelier, the restaurant at Hotel Bayerischer Hof.Christian Kain/Travel + Leisure

A hurricane resistant structure at the Marie Selby Botanical garden in Florida

The welcome center at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, in Sarasota, Florida.RYAN GAMMA/COURTESY OF MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS

Four women wearing green sit behind piles of red and yellow flowers

Upcycling flowers for the Indian incense brand Phool.Courtesy of The Leela Palaces

A small floating cabin on the water in the Netherlands

A Cabiner hideaway in the Horsterwold, less than an hour’s drive from Amsterdam.Courtesy of Cabiner

A man stands on a remote beach in Sao Tome and Principe

The beach at Bom Bom, in São Tomé and Príncipe.COURTESY OF HBD PRÍNCIPE