TripAdvisor announced the winner of its 2019 Travellers Choice Award for best destination in the US and the world. Award winners are determined using an algorithm based on review and rating for hotels, restaurants, and experiences over a 12-month period.
TripAdvisor is an American travel and restaurant website company that shows hotel and restaurant reviews, accommodation bookings and other travel-related content. It also includes interactive travel forums.
Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, TripAdvisor is the largest travel website in the world, with more than 315 million reviewers (active and inactive) and over 500 million reviews of hotels, restaurants, attractions and other travel-related businesses.
According to TripAdvisor, London took the best destination for 2019 in the world. Paris took second place in TripAdvisor’s best-rated travel destinations, with Rome coming in third, followed by Crete, Bali, and Phuket.
Desiree Fish, TripAdvisor’s Vice President of Global Communications, said the Travelers’ Choice Awards “recognize major cities and islands that continue to deliver an outstanding experience and are beloved by our global community of travelers.”
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Here are the top 25 destinations in the world, according to the 2019 Travelers Choice Awards:
- London, United Kingdom
- Paris, France
- Rome, Italy
- Crete, Greece
- Bali, Indonesia
- Phuket, Thailand
- Barcelona, Spain
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Marrakech, Morocco
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Siem Reap, Cambodia
- New York City, New York
- Jamaica
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Tokyo, Japan
- Playa del Carmen, Mexico
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Jaipur, India
- Hurghada, Egypt
- Hong Kong, China
- Cusco, Peru
- Sydney, Australia
- Tel Aviv, Israel
Out of the top 25, there are 4 destinations from the ASEAN countries. Bali of Indonesia took the first and Phuket, a famous beach of Thailand, took the second. Siem Reap of Cambodia could grasp travelers’ attraction to get the third place of ASEAN. The fourth attractive destination of ASEAN for 2019 was Hanoi, Vietnam, the host of historic Trump-Kim second summit.
Ref:CNN