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Travel + Leisure, the world's leading travel magazine, has organized its annual World’s Best Awards Readers’ Survey, for the thirteenth consecutive year. Readers were asked to help define excellence in travel by rating airlines, hotels, travel destinations and more.
In the publication's 2008 readers’ survey, Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is named ‘World’s Best City 2008’. The city of Bangkok also leads the Top 10 cities in Asia. The northern city of Chiang Mai ranks third in Asia.
The tropical island paradise of Phuket — ‘Pearl of the Andaman’ ranks second among the Asia’s Top 3 islands for a consecutive year.
Thai Airways International, the national carrier, is third among the Top 10 international airlines.
Three hotel/resort properties in Thailand are represented in the Top 20 of the 2008 Travel + Leisure World’s Best Hotels category featuring the Top 100. These are The Oriental Bangkok, The Peninsula, Bangkok and the Four Seasons Resort in Chiang Mai.
The Four Seasons Resort in Chiang Mai also ranks second among the world’s Top 20 hotel spas and is also named the Travel + Leisure 2008 ‘World’s Best Hotel Spa’ for the Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East. The resort also ranks among the Top 15 in the ‘Top Small Hotels’ category.
Eight of the Top 50 hotel and resort properties in Asia in the Travel + Leisure 2008 World’s Best Hotels category are in Thailand.
Source : Travel + Leisure press release dated 10 July 2008
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