Saturday, August 4, 2007

Udaipur belongs in top 10 world’s best cities

Udaipur is getting its shine as one of the world’s great cities for a holiday. As per Travel+Leisure magazine’s Top 10 World’s Best Cities poll.

Udaipur is in the top 10. The poll, released in the US overnight, ranked Udaipur as the seventh best city in the world.

This year (2007) Udaipur beat Istanbul (8th), San Francisco (9th) and Cape Town (10th).

Subscribers were also asked to rate the world’s best hotels, airlines, islands and cruises.
India’s luxury Oberoi Udaivilas hotel in Udaipur was named the world’s best hotel, South Africa’s Singita Sabi Sand hotel in the Kruger National Park was second and third was The Oriental in Bangkok.

The top ranked Melbourne hotel was the Langham in seventh(7th) place and Queensland’s top hotel was the Mantra Treetops Resort & Spa in Port Douglas in 13th.

Travel+Leisure magazine’s top 10 cities for a holiday (last year’s rank in brackets):
1. Florence (1)
2. Buenos Aires (7)
3. Bangkok (3)
4. Rome (2)
5. Sydney (4)
6. New York (8)
7. Udaipur, India (n/a)
8. Istanbul (n/a)
9. San Francisco (10)
10. Cape Town (6)

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