Inaspect Robb Report’s 2025 Travel Issue

Welcome to Robb Report’s 2025 Travel Issue. If there’s a typical thread this yr, it isn’t passport stamps, platinum standing, or yacht-to-villa transfers—it’s authorship. As a journalist, I can recognize the impulse. Today’s most discerning vacationers aren’t all for another person’s itinerary; they need the byline. Whether it’s flying on the velocity of sound, buying and selling coasts for a brand new hemisphere, or filming your personal Antarctic epic, the journeys in these pages are as unique because the folks behind them. 

Our marine and aviation editor, Michael Verdon, found this firsthand. For his function “High Fliers,” he joined a bunch of personal pilots navigating their jets on a 42-day odyssey from North America to Nepal. For these vacationers, charting their very own course is the joys. At sea, the tempo could also be slower, however the ambition is identical: Verdon additionally explores a burgeoning class of residential vessels the place house owners aren’t simply cruising—they’re transferring in and turning the fantasy of life at sea right into a luxuriant, full-time actuality. 

Elsewhere, journey turns into a passage to a subsequent chapter. Writer Alison Boleyn examines why a rising variety of prosperous Americans now view New Zealand not as a easy getaway however as a long-term funding in way of life and stability and a retreat from mounting world uncertainty. The draw isn’t simply pristine surroundings but additionally the uncommon probability to rewrite one’s future—removed from the turbulence and polarization of stateside politics. One couple even discovered themselves researching relocation independently, solely to appreciate, mid-scroll, they had been each plotting the identical transfer. 

And for these able to step into their very own documentary, The Vault by Robb Report affords a rare alternative completely to our readers. In “Lights, Camera, Antarctica,” you’ll discover particulars of a non-public superyacht expedition to the southernmost continent—full with helicopters, submersibles, and an expert movie crew to seize each awestruck second. It’s half journey, half auteurship, and accessible to solely a handful of vacationers every year. 

Of course, journey (like life) doesn’t all the time match neatly right into a theme. Nor is it ever uncomplicated. In Barbuda, editor at giant Mark Ellwood traces the transformation of a once-discreet Caribbean hideaway—lengthy favored by Princess Diana—right into a flashpoint of growth and dissent. Robert De Niro headlines a bunch of traders with daring ambitions, however not everyone seems to be elevating a glass. The publish–Hurricane Irma constructing increase has sparked fierce debate over land rights, native sovereignty, and what sort of paradise Barbuda is supposed to be. 

As ever, there’s way more to find on this situation—from road-testing Bentley’s quickest S.U.V. on a Montana cattle ranch to exploring Rotterdam’s daring cultural reinvention. Plus, a horological legend revives 252-year-old Urban Jürgensen, turbot emerges because the U.S.’s splashiest seafood obsession, and the Marina Bay Sands turns wine tasting right into a globe-trotting expertise. Wherever you’re headed subsequent, could the story you write be your personal. 

Enjoy the problem.