Our TOP 50

Why a media about hotels publishes rankings of everyone else

A travel media is only as good as the ecosystem it reads. We spend our weeks going through resort webcams, avalanche bulletins, hut booking pages, chef interviews and creator feeds, and most of that work never appears anywhere. Our TOP 50 is that work, published.

Concretely, you will find here who to follow before a Dolomites hiking week, which channel to watch before your first ski-touring season, which board publishes the lift status you need on the morning you arrive, and which architects and hotel families are behind the openings everyone is writing about. Each list is grouped into sub-families so it can be scanned rather than read end to end, and each entry says specifically what that name does rather than repeating a generic compliment.

These pages are evergreen. There is no year in a title and none in a URL, because a list that has to be rewritten every January stops being useful in February. When an entry closes down, changes hands or stops publishing, it comes out and something real replaces it. If you belong on one of these lists and you are not on it yet, tell us through the about page — and if you would rather start with the practical side of a trip, our Alpine City Guides and our methodology explain how we pick hotels and destinations.