Booking.com has announced the results of its 14th Traveller Review Awards 2026 and published a list of the most hospitable destinations for 2026, based on the proportion of accommodation partners that received an award in a particular city or region.
According to the company, 1.81 million partners in 221 countries and territories will receive the award in 2026, with calculations based on more than 370 million verified traveler reviews.
The top 10 most hospitable cities in the world include: Montepulciano (Italy), Magong (Taiwan), San Martin de los Andes (Argentina), Harrogate (United Kingdom), Fredericksburg (Texas, USA), Pirenopolis (Brazil), Swakopmund (Namibia), Takayama (Japan), Noosa Heads (Australia), and Klaipeda (Lithuania).
The top 10 most hospitable regions, according to Booking.com, are Hidalgo (Mexico), Newfoundland and Labrador (Canada), Navarra (Spain), Idaho (USA), Himachal Pradesh (India), Saxony (Germany), Phang Nga (Thailand), Overijssel (Netherlands), Epirus (Greece), and Chiriqui (Panama).
Booking.com specifies that destinations were ranked according to the share of award-winning accommodations relative to the number of “evaluable” accommodations in a city or region. To make the list, a destination needed to have at least 200 award-winning partners and an “above-average” share of winners, with geographical representation also taken into account.
The Traveller Review Awards winners themselves were determined by the average score of reviews published between December 1, 2022, and November 30, 2025, with the final score calculated on December 1, 2025.
