Bogotá's opening season is measured less in hotel keys than in connectivity: twenty new international routes land through December 2026, El Dorado is being programmed toward 60 million passengers, and the city that already hosts two Four Seasons flags just saw the brand plant a third in Colombia.
The clearest opening of the season is in the sky: Colombia is adding twenty new international routes through December 2026, most touching Bogotá, on top of an international segment that grew 6% at El Dorado in 2025. Avianca, whose home hub this is, keeps converting its transit flow into city visits with a stopover program that lets connecting passengers stay up to 24 hours at no extra fare — nearly six million international transit passengers a year are the target pool.
The airport itself is the second opening: with 45.4 million passengers a year pressing against infrastructure designed for far fewer, the government has programmed an expansion to double El Dorado toward 60 million capacity, with immigration biometrics already replacing the three-hour peak queues that were the airport's one bad review. A five-time Skytrax 'Best Airport in South America' is about to get bigger to match its busier.
Bogotá's high end made its statement years ago and keeps compounding: it is one of very few cities on Earth with two Four Seasons hotels — the Zona T flagship and Casa Medina — and in 2026 the brand opened its third Colombian flag in Cartagena, a vote of confidence in a country whose tourism receipts now out-earn coffee and coal. The W, Grand Hyatt and JW Marriott hold the north; the new energy is in Chapinero's boutique conversions.
The most consequential openings are still at the table: Leo, Leonor Espinosa's Chapinero dining room built on her Ciclo-Bioma research into Colombia's ecosystems — giant lemon ants, mojojoy worms, Amazonian fish — holds its place in The World's 50 Best, with Espinosa crowned The World's Best Female Chef 2022. Around it, Zona G and Usaquén have turned Colombian biodiversity into the city's bookable attraction: this is the gastronomy wave that record tourism keeps feeding.
Our read: in Bogotá, book the table before the room. Leo and the Zona G tasting menus are the scarce resource; hotels are not — the north-of-center luxury stock is deep and keenly priced. Watch the new routes: first-year frequencies are where the fare deals live, and Avianca's stopover turns a Panama-or-Lima connection into a free Bogotá day. Skip the airport arrivals-hall improvisations entirely — the city's one rough edge is the transfer, and it's solved in advance for the price of a modest lunch.
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