Global Traveler Announces Quint, Crystal Status Winners

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Dec 01, 2025, 09:00 ET

As the GT Tested Reader Survey enters its 22nd year, leading travel magazine recognizes 5-, 15-year winners

YARDLEY, Pa., Dec. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Traveler, the only monthly magazine for frequent luxury travelers, announces the five-year Quint and 15-year Crystal Status winners in its GT Tested Reader Survey awards. As the awards enter its 22nd year, the special statuses commemorate consecutive winners in the same category in the magazine's GT Tested Reader Survey awards for five and 15 years. In applicable years, the Hall of Fame honors 10-year winners and Platinum Status celebrates 20-year winners. Global Traveler's readers vote on the awards; more than 20,000 voted in 2025.

The 2025 winners of Quint Status are:

Best Rental Car Company	Best Tourism Destination
Hertz	Greece
Fifth Consecutive Year	Fifth Consecutive Year

The 2025 winners of Crystal Status are:

Best Airline in Europe	Best Hotel in the United States
TAP Air Portugal	The Peninsula Beverly Hills
15^th Consecutive Year	15^th Consecutive Year

	Best Hotel Chain in Mexico
	Fiesta Americana Travelty Collection
	15^th Consecutive Year

Quint and Crystal Status winners will be feted at an event Dec. 17, at Loews Coral Gables. To learn more about this year's Quint and Crystal Status inductees, pick up the December issue of Global Traveler, available now, or visit globaltravelerusa.com.

About Global Traveler
With nearly 1.2 million readers, Global Traveler connects brands with U.S.-based frequent, affluent travelers. According to MRI Simmons, GT readers have an average net worth of $3.1 million and 50 percent are CEOs and owners of companies. Our readers average 18 domestic flights per year and 93 percent travel internationally on a regular basis (18 round-trips in the last three years), mostly in first and business class. More than 85 percent stay in 4- and 5-star hotels, at an average of 180 nights per year. Each year, Global Traveler awards the GT Tested Reader Survey awards and the Leisure Lifestyle Awards.

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With more than 5.1 million page views monthly, globaltravelerusa.com offers unique daily content catering to the lifestyle and travel interests of premium travelers who fly all over the world for business and pleasure. A host of positions, including banners, sponsored content and specialty takeovers, are available. Other digital editorial e-newsletters include eFlyer, Global Traveler slideshow, GT Week in Review and Issue Preview. Custom e-newsletters, such as Publisher's Picks, GT on the Go and Premium eDeal, are available for advertisers.

About FXExpress Publications, Inc.
FXExpress Publications, Inc., based in Yardley, Pa., is a privately held company publishing Global Traveler, globaltravelerusa.com, FX Excursions, eFlyer and several annuals. WhereverFamily LLC publishes whereverfamily.com and its related brands, and Trazee Travel, LLC publishes trazeetravel.com. FXExpress Publications, Inc., awards the annual Industry Leader Awards.

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