Inside the 2018 Readers' Choice Awards

Summary: When 429,000 of you speak, we listen—and then we talk about it on the podcast. If you want to know how the sausage gets made, why editor-favorite Hot List hotels (and destinations) are popping up in our RCAs faster than ever, why we're so freaking excited that Traveler readers voted a hotel like the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore as the number one hotel in the U.S., listen in. (Visit cntraveler.com for a list of all hotels mentioned.)