JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay
Bill Bensley’s 244-room beach resort on Khem Beach, at the southern end of Phu Quoc, designed as the campus of an imaginary French colonial university.
Villas
Azerai Can Tho
Adrian Zecha’s resort of 60 villas on a private islet in the Hau River, a short boat ride from the city of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta.
TA’AKTANA, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Labuan Bajo
A resort of 70 suites and villas, seven of them over the water, at Labuan Bajo on Flores, the gateway to Komodo National Park.
Six Senses Krabey Island
Forty pool villas in the forest of a private island in the Gulf of Thailand, off Cambodia’s Ream National Park.
Rosewood Luang Prabang
Bill Bensley’s 23-key resort beside a waterfall in a forest valley, ten minutes from the old town of Luang Prabang, with six tented villas on the hilltop.
Azuma Farm Koiwai
A 24-room retreat by Adrian Zecha’s Azumi and JR East in a grove on Koiwai Farm, at the foot of Mount Iwate, west of Morioka.
Rosewood Miyakojima
Rosewood’s first hotel in Japan: 55 villas and houses by Studio Piet Boon on a peninsula of Miyako Island, in Okinawa prefecture.
Park Hyatt Niseko Hanazono
A ski-in, ski-out mountain resort of 100 rooms and more than 80 residences at the foot of the Hanazono slopes in Niseko, Hokkaido.
The Ritz-Carlton, Nikko
A 94-room lakeside resort on Lake Chuzenji in Nikko National Park, and the first Ritz-Carlton with its own hot spring.
Amanemu
Aman’s hot-spring resort above Ago Bay in Ise-Shima National Park: 24 suites and a number of villas by Kerry Hill, each with its own onsen bath.