World Travel Awards 2026: Recognition Begins With Devotion

Recognition has a particular meaning when you care deeply about what you do. It suggests that something you have spent time imagining, shaping, and improving has reached the people it was intended for. That the thought behind a place has become part of someone’s experience of it.

In hospitality, that thought takes countless forms. A space designed to bring a family together. A welcome that feels personal after a long journey. The instinct to pay substantial attention, even when nobody has asked you to. Making something significant requires a certain devotion to these details, repeated every day, long before an awards nomination arrives.

For Domes, the 2026 World Travel Awards nominations are a meaningful acknowledgement of that devotion. With 11 nominations across the World categories, spanning resorts in Greece and Portugal and the Domes brand itself, this year’s selection reflects the many ways a holiday can matter.

Our 2026 World Nominations

Each category puts a name to a different ambition. Together, they recognise the breadth of the Domes collection and the individual character of the places within it.

• World’s Leading All-Inclusive Resort 2026: Domes Aulūs Zante, Greece
• World’s Leading Family Resort 2026: Domes Lake Algarve, Autograph Collection, Portugal
• World’s Leading Honeymoon Resort 2026: Domes Noruz Chania, Autograph Collection, Greece
• World’s Leading Leisure Resort 2026: Domes Zeen Chania, a Luxury Collection Resort, Greece
• World’s Leading Luxury City Resort 2026: 91 Athens Riviera, Greece
• World’s Leading Luxury Family Resort 2026: Domes of Elounda, Autograph Collection, Greece
• World’s Leading Luxury Resort 2026: Domes Miramare, a Luxury Collection Resort, Corfu, Greece
• World’s Leading Resort Brand 2026: Domes Resorts
• World’s Leading Sports Academy 2026: Cascade Wellness Resort, Portugal
• World’s Leading Sports Resort 2026: Cascade Wellness Resort, Portugal
• World’s Most Romantic Resort 2026: Domes Aulūs Elounda, Greece

The Intention Behind the Recognition

There is something revealing about seeing family holidays, honeymoons, sport, and city escapes on the same list. People arrive with very different hopes for their time away. Some want to learn something. Others would quite happily forget what day it is. A couple celebrating a beginning and parents rediscovering the pleasure of an unhurried afternoon may need entirely different things from the same act of hospitality.

Understanding those differences is part of the work. So is allowing each destination to have a voice in the experience, through its surroundings, its culture, and the people who know it best.

The ambition connecting the Domes collection is to give those encounters care and purpose. Design, service, and a sense of place all contribute to how a stay feels, and to what remains of it afterwards.

These nominations offer a moment to acknowledge the teams who bring that ambition into everyday life. Their attention gives an idea its substance. Guests, in turn, give it meaning through the memories they make and the places they choose to return to.

World Travel Awards 2026: Recognition Begins With Devotion

If a Domes stay has become part of your own story, we would be delighted to have your support.

Voting for the World categories of the World Travel Awards 2026 has been extended to 9 November 2026. Cast your vote here for the resorts and experiences that mean something to you.

Thank you for giving our devotion somewhere to arrive, the way we have exactly dreamed about it.