Bangkok Named World's Best City

For the first time, Bangkok has topped Travel + Leisure’s “World’s Best City” list. Bangkok has consistently placed in the top five for the last three consecutive years on the US-based travel magazine’s list, but the survey results announced July 10, 2008, marked the first time that the Thai capital was able to snatch the top ranking. The city of Bangkok has always been a perennial winner of tourism awards given by international organizations, and consistently scores high in readers’ surveys conducted by leading travel magazines such as Travel + Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler.

Bangkok was named World’s Best City 2008 with a score of 87.61, ahead of Argentina’s Buenos Aires, last year’s runner up, and Cape Town, South Africa, which jumped from no. 10 in 2007. Thailand’s Chiang Mai has retained its no. 3 ranking for two successive years, remaining one of the most preferred destinations among visitors to Thailand.

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