AMPR Global’s Insights on Where to Go 2027
From emerging destinations to highly anticipated hotel openings, 2027 promises an exciting year for travel. Here are the places and new arrivals to keep on your radar.
EUROPE
The Real Riviera: Where to Stay Before White Lotus Changes Everything
Image courtesy of Hôtel Belles Rives
When White Lotus Season 4 debuts in 2027, the Côte d’Azur will become the most fought-over address in travel, and Saint-Tropez will get the headlines. But, the Riviera’s IYKYK properties have always belonged to Cap d’Antibes, where old-money glamour never needed a TV show to prove itself. For a recommendation: stay at Hotel Belles Rives, where F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald spent their summers in the 1920s while he wrote early chapters of Tender Is the Night. The Art Deco mansion is home to 43 rooms with Mediterranean views, a private beach, and the Michelin-starred La Passagère restaurant, along with the famed Fitzgerald Bar for cocktails and piano, a Valmont spa, beachside cabanas, and what’s one of the world’s oldest water ski clubs. Five minutes away in Juan-les-Pins, sister property Hotel Juana has its own history from the Jazz Age. Chagall and Picabia once decorated its walls, and Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Ella Fitzgerald stayed there during the Antibes Jazz Festival each July. That same spirit carries through at PASEO, Juana’s colorful, communal restaurant with a hand-painted garden patio that draws locals as much as hotel guests. For 2027, it’s worth spotlighting Juana’s Family Suite, built for multi-generational Riviera stays and designed to keep families together without sacrificing space.
The Haaland Effect: Why Everyone’s Suddenly Booking Norway
Fýri Resort
With football star Erling Haaland winning fans globally during the 2026 World Cup, we predict an uptick in travel to Norway (and Scandinavia) at large. ESS Group, the region’s leading hospitality brand, is behind Fýri Resort in Hemsedal, three hours from Oslo, and is built around the mountains: direct access to Hemsedal’s slopes, an expansive Pool Club with views back up at the peaks, fireplaces, and an après-ski scene. Hemsedal is also set to host Up N’ Down on April 10, 2027, Scandinavia’s toughest ski race, where travelers can channel a little of their own Haaland-level intensity on the slopes before easing into the après-ski scene back at Fýri.
Eréma Completes Its Vision on Milos in Spring 2027
Eréma, a Member of Design Hotels. Source: Empiria Group. Photo Credit: Marios Stavridis.
Empiria Group opened its latest property, Eréma, on Milos’s southeastern coast near Provatas Beach in June 2026, with an initial collection of suites and two restaurants led by chef Yiannis Kioroglou. The property will be fully completed in spring 2027 with the addition of the Elios spa, a fitness center, the main lobby, and the remaining suites, along with a third Cycladic location of Anthologist, which reimagines the hotel shop as part of the stay itself, gathering handmade jewelry, décor, and textiles from Greek artisans. The design responds to Milos’s volcanic landscape, using a material palette of volcanic stone, earth tones, Naxian marble, and timber, with furniture custom-made by local craftsmen based on Cycladic design traditions. Suites are offered across four categories, from one-bedroom Element Suites to two-bedroom Unity Suites suited for families, each with a private pool and sea views.
Retail Worth The Trip: The Store at The Ilisian
The Store at The Ilisian
At Conrad Athens The Ilisian, the reimagined Hilton Athens, shopping has become as much a part of the stay as the suite. The Store at The Ilisian opened earlier in spring 2026, on the very day the hotel marked its 62nd anniversary, as a 325-square-meter editorial retail concept designed by Anthologist founder and creative director Andria Mitsakos. It’s Anthologist’s fourth retail concept in Greece, and its most ambitious: fine jewelry, ready-to-wear, beauty, furniture, lighting, and home objects, sourced from global designers, independent makers, and Greek artisans, with more than 90% of the merchandise found nowhere else. The space is also home to the world’s first Monocle shop-in-shop, along with original collaborations and one-of-a-kind pieces that make browsing feel more like discovery. In 2027, The Store at The Ilisian will debut Stella Interiors, a new interiors collection conceived by Andria Mitsakos as an ode to her mother and her enduring influence on her approach to design. Seasonal drops of and micro collections will encompass original lighting alongside newly designed, restored and reimagined antique and vintage furniture, with each piece bringing together provenance, craftsmanship and a distinctly contemporary point of view.
The Insider’s Greece: Inside The Eugenes’ New Villas on Chios and Sifnos
The Eugenes, Kambos Estate, Chios
The Eugenes‘ villas on Chios and Sifnos are worth adding to a 2027 lineup, especially with spring shaping up as the smarter time to see the Greek islands.
- On Chios, Kambos Estate sits in the island’s historic Kambos district, a 2,164-square-meter stone mansion built in the aristocratic style the region is known for, framed by olive, citrus, and mastiha trees that are at their most fragrant in spring bloom. It sleeps 20 across 10 bedrooms, with a pool, gym, outdoor cinema, and basketball court, and sits minutes from the mastic villages and Mastic Museum.
- On Sifnos, Villa Sifnos is a modern Cycladic build in Artemonas that sleeps 16 across 8 bedrooms, perched above the Aegean with gardens of thyme, oregano, and wildflowers that peak in spring. Sifnos is known to be one of the best-preserved food cultures in the Cyclades, with a culinary reputation staked on Nikolaos Tselementes, the island-born chef often credited as the father of modern Greek cooking, honored each year at the Cycladic Gastronomy Festival.
Villa Sifnos
AFRICA
South Sudan: The Great Nile Migration
South Sudan is one of the wildest places left on Earth, and in 2027, Anderson Expeditions is one of the few operators taking travelers there. The trip centers on the Great Nile Migration Landscape, spanning Badingilo and Boma National Parks, where hundreds of thousands of white-eared kob, Mongalla gazelle, tiang, and Bohor reedbuck move together in the largest overland mammal migration on the planet, larger than the Serengeti’s. Both parks are proposed UNESCO World Heritage Sites and home to critically endangered Nubian giraffe, northern lion, and north-east African cheetah, now protected under a 10-year partnership between the South Sudanese government and African Parks.
This 8-day expedition is almost entirely helicopter-based, led by veteran Africa guide Fraser Gear, moving between remote tented camps with heli transfers over the Sudd Swamp and Jonglei Canal, plus visits to local communities and their traditional culture. It’s priced at approximately $210,000 per person, reflecting the scale of access required to reach it.
The New African Safari with Tintswalo Collection
Tintswalo Safari
The one-lodge, one-week safari is now evolving with the Tintswalo Collection, which strings together a multi-property journey across South Africa — from Big 5 game drives in the Greater Kruger bushveld to cliffside dining above the Atlantic in Cape Town. New for 2027: Tintswalo Waterberg, the family safari retreat in Welgevonden Game Reserve, Limpopo, will be undergoing a full renovation, with the revamped lodge relaunching in February 2027, while Tintswalo Safari’s Presidential Suite closes for its own refresh in January 2027 and reopens once the work is complete.
Destination to Watch: Dakar, Senegal
This past June, Air Transat launched the first nonstop route ever connecting Canada to Dakar, flying twice weekly between Montreal and the Senegal capital, and Delta’s daily service from New York-JFK remains a popular option as well. On the ground, and coming off the heels of its 40th anniversary, Terrou-Bi, the family-owned, beachfront resort, is finishing the largest expansion in its history: 18 new suites with unobstructed Atlantic views bring the property to 266 rooms total, alongside a 225-seat amphitheater.
Terrou-Bi
Shela, Kenya: The Island Village Nairobi’s Creatives Are Moving To
Shela is a Swahili village of coral-stone houses and dune-backed beach on Lamu Island, off Kenya’s northern coast, where there are no cars, just donkeys and dhows. It’s worth attention now because a steady stream of Nairobi creatives, from models and artists to DJs, photographers and seamstresses, have been relocating here, and the village is starting to reflect that. The Shela Women’s Association is adding a fashion house and art walks, while Kasbah, formerly a guesthouse, now operates as a hotel with the adjacent Makati Art Centre scheduling installations through the year. New shops are opening, and a sleep center hotel focused on sleep and longevity is on the way, the first of its kind on the archipelago. It’s also drawn a less expected resident: Charlotte Tilbury keeps a house on nearby Manda Island, a former restaurant she bought to host Gatsby-esque parties.
CARIBBEAN
Jakes Hotel
Jakes Hotel: New Treasures on Treasure Beach in Jamaica:
Jakes Hotel, the family-owned boutique property in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, is expanding its villa collection with a new 5-bedroom villa, part of the Seaweed Villa expansion debuting in 2027. Building on last year’s reimagined oceanfront bungalows, it continues Jakes’ signature bohemian-chic style with sea-green and turquoise interiors, jute and sisal, hand-carved wood, mosaic and shell detailing, along with an infinity-edge pool, private beach access, and full staff including a dedicated chef. Treasure Beach itself, known as Jamaica’s breadbasket, anchors the property’s culinary and wellness identity: its monthly farm-to-table full-moon dinners draw on surrounding farms and fishing villages, while the district’s Ital food traditions, the plant-based, herb-forward diet long practiced by local elders, position Jakes at the center of the longevity conversation well before “blue zone” became a travel buzzword.
On the events side, Jakes will once again host the Calabash International Literary Festival (May 21–23, 2027), the free, biennial gathering founded in 2001 by Colin Channer, Kwame Dawes, and Justine Henzell. What began as 300 friends and family on the property’s grounds has grown into one of the world’s most beloved literary festivals, drawing 2,000–3,000 people for readings under acacia trees with past headliners including Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, and Marlon James. The property also hosts Jakes’ Off-Road Triathlon (April 24, 2027), the world’s longest off-road triathlon and a fundraiser for BREDS Treasure Beach Foundation, the community organization behind local education, health, and environmental initiatives.