Capetown voted top African and Middle East City, bus Sydney still No 1!
The 2006 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Survey has voted Cape Town as the No 1 City in Africa and the Middle East, and the No 8 City in the world with four Cape Town hotels are amongst the top eleven hotels in Africa.
The 19th annual Condé Nast Readers’ Choice Awards, published in the November issue of the highly regarded US travel magazine, are based on readers’ actual travel experiences with the scores representing the percentage of “excellent” or “very good” ratings.
With over 21 000 travellers voting this year, the lists show great global variety and depth.
Cape Town, with a score of 82.8, Number One in Africa and the Middle East, beat Marrakech in Morocco into second place and Jerusalem in Israel into third place.
The top city in the world is Sydney, Australia, followed by Florence, Italy, and San Francisco, USA, with the cities are rated on ambience, culture/sites, friendliness, lodging, restaurants and shopping.
Barry Ackers, COO of Cape Town Routes Unlimited, the official tourism destination marketing organisation of Cape Town and the Western Cape, said, “We are extremely pleased by these results which just once again confirm that Cape Town is one of the world’s most popular tourism destinations, beating some of the toughest competition and that we’ve got what it takes to give our visitors that once-in-a-lifetime travel experience.” “We continue to build on this reputation as we prepare for an influx of an estimated 2.8 million international and domestic tourists this summer season.
The Cape Grace Hotel claimed the Number Two spot in Africa, the ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel Number Four, Table Bay Hotel Number Seven and Mount Nelson Hotel Number Eleven in the continent. The Cape Grace also claimed the number 49 spot in the world. Hotels are rated on food/dining, location, overall design, rooms and service.
Other categories in the 2006 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Survey include top resorts, islands, cruise lines, airlines and car rental agencies
In the first Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Survey, held in 1988, only two hotels and one cruise line earned ratings above 90.0, but this year, an astonishing 208 hotels, resorts, cruise lines, airlines and destinations surpass that threshold, sure trend towards excellence, according to the magazine.
Report by The Mole
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