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(Charleston, SC) - Charleston has again been honored as one of the "Top
Cities in the United States & Canada" according to Travel + Leisure
magazine's tenth annual World's Best Poll, featured in the August 2007
issue. Charleston joins New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Santa Fe, Quebec
City, Vancouver, Montreal, Victoria and Seattle on the magazine's list of
2007's Ten Best destinations in the United States and Canada. Charleston
area hotels also ranked highly again in this year's poll of the Top 100
Hotels in the Continental US and Canada. Woodlands Resort & Inn (#2), The
Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort (#5), Planters Inn (#7) and
Wentworth Mansion (#40) were each named to the list. Woodlands, The
Sanctuary and Planters Inn also earned the distinction of being named to the
magazine's list of the Top 100 Hotels in the World.
"Charleston's consistent ranking as a Top Ten destination is a tribute to
the quality and enduring appeal of the destination," stated Terri Haack,
Chairman of the Charleston Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. "We are
honored to have been so highly ranked again this year, and will work to
continue being worthy of this recognition."
In addition to Travel + Leisure, Charleston has ranked as one of the top ten
domestic travel destinations for the past eleven years in Condé Nast
Traveler magazine's prestigious Readers' Choice Awards. And, the late
Marjabelle Young Stewart, nationally renowned etiquette expert, found
Charleston to be the most polite city in the nation for the past eleven
years and included Charleston in the ranking every year of the list's
29-year existence.
Travel + Leisure, with a circulation of approximately 1,000,000, is a highly
regarded source of travel and dining information geared towards the
sophisticated traveler. For more information, please visit
www.travelandleisure.com
To learn more about the Charleston area, please contact the Charleston Area
Convention & Visitors Bureau at 843-853-8000 or 800-774-0006. Also, be sure
to visit our website at
www.charlestoncvb.com |
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