The Andaz Liverpool Street, London is a rare beast, a hip hotel right on top of Liverpool Station — one of just a handful of lodgings in the Square Mile, bucking the trend that generally sees City boys and girls (and their guests) flee for points westward as soon as the closing bell rings. And despite its railway-hotel heritage, it’s had quite an upgrade, its interiors proof that modern design plays as well with financiers as it does with creative types.

Tourism in Cambodia is booming, and nowhere more than in Siem Reap — this picturesque colonial city is the center of the local luxury travel industry, thanks in no small part to its proximity to Cambodia’s most famous attraction, the temple at Angkor Wat. And now one of the city’s classic hotels, the Hotel de la Paix, has been rebuilt, in a style that’s partly a modern homage to its Art Deco heritage and partly a tribute to Angkor Wat itself.

Here’s a hotel that forces you to dispense with a couple of easy generalizations. The first is the idea that the big chains guarantee a dull experience — not a bad rule of thumb but one with many, many exceptions. And the second is the idea that in Japan, Tokyo is the center of all that’s modern and forward-thinking while Kyoto remains frozen in the feudal past. Again, true enough, to a point — but as the Hyatt Regency Kyoto proves, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

Alila, the Southeast Asian boutique-hospitality powerhouse, is expanding to the west, and they’ve alighted on Indian shores — the west-coast state of Goa, to be exact. There will be some of you who need little more encouragement than just the name, and it’s not hard to see why — the place looks pretty much exactly like what you’d expect from Alila in Goa, which is to say, crisp contemporary design, glassy infinity-edge pools, locally-inspired pitched-roof architecture, and a span of flawless sand between lush plantation land and the waters of the Arabian Sea.

The island of St. Kitts is a relatively late arrival to the Caribbean tourism trade, but it’s not for any lack of natural attributes — especially at this spot, the Narrows, where a remote appendage of the island stretches nearly all the way to neighboring Nevis, making for a spectacular view. This means the Park Hyatt St. Kitts is even more of an outlier than it would otherwise be: not only is it by some distance the most luxurious hotel on the island, it’s practically alone here, which gives it a touch of desert-island atmosphere (though the rest of the Christophe Harbour development is soon to follow).

From a single hotel in downtown Manhattan to a family that spans North America, Thompson Hotels is still going strong. Now under the Hyatt umbrella, the brand has brought its distinctive mid-century-influenced style to Texas — and brought a bit of Texas into its style at the same time. Thompson San Antonio stands tall above the River Walk, home to the city’s finest restaurants, bars, cafés, and shops, and its interiors, modernist though they may be, are adapted to the locale, filled with rugged textures in wood, leather, and stone.

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