21 Sustainable Vacation Destinations

Environmentally friendly and contributing to local communities, sustainable and conscious hotels, lodges and resorts are (thankfully) only getting more common. From Botswana to Belize, the Seychelles and Sri Lanka, National Geographic has found 21 of their favorite destinations to visit if travel is as important as caring about the planet and its inhabitants. Each place isn’t only kind to locals and nature, they are also …

Ian Schrager’s Public Hotel Opens in NYC

Once again the hotelier presents a new, future-forward vision of luxury accommodation

It’s all in the name. Walking into the glass and steel Herzog and de Meuron-designed Public Hotel, visitors cannot help but be taken by the sheer amount of public space. Many hotels claim to be for the city they’re in just as much as for the guests occupying the rooms. With the Public, this is actually true. A ground-up build in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, …

Word of Mouth: Sedona, Arizona

Red rocks, spirituality and stunning vistas with views stretching for miles

One of the few places on earth where a pinecone can be seen beside a cactus, Sedona’s confluence of flora sprouts from red, iron-rich rocks and sand. Mimicking mountains, large sandstone formations actually came to be through millennia of erosion. They tower with might above the city. Here, visitors gather to hike the trails extending outward, indulge in the spa culture and work their way through …