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Guardian's 2007 Travel Awards winners
More than 13,500 readers voted for the 21st edition of Guardian's Travel Awards that were recently held in Seville. The Guardian is one of my favorite newspapers, and although I couldn't take part in the survey (UK only!), I was curious to see what was on other readers hit-lists.
Here are some of the internationally interesting results:
Best Online Booking Service: www.i-escape.com
Best Long-Haul Airline: Singapore Airlines (expected - they are fantastic)
Best Short-Haul Airline: www.jet2.com
Best Business Airline: Emirates Airlines (expected -- it's a great airline but also there are over 100,000 British Expats living in Dubai)
Best Overseas City: Hong Kong (didn't expect that!)
Best European City: Berlin (yeah...I understand this choice)
Best European Country: Switzerland (huh!?)
Best Long Haul Country: Cambodia (huh!?) -- what does Long-Haul Country mean anyway?
I think such country based surveys say a lot about the general travel-mind of the country -- and honestly some of the results surprised me.
Filed under: Business, United Kingdom, Airlines, Internet Tools
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Carol Nov 2nd 2007 11:02PM
What about Iceland?
Fabulous country, friendly people, great scenery, wonderful food, no pollution. What's not to like?
rovoo Nov 2nd 2007 11:12PM
yeah! what does Long-Haul country mean?
from:rovoo:http://www.rovoo.com/
Donalyn Kestner Nov 2nd 2007 11:55PM
I love Romania ~ America friendly, gracious, beautiful scenery, and SO non materialistic. A trip to Translyvania makes it all worthwhile.
Heather Perry Nov 3rd 2007 12:30AM
Germany, best country without a doubt. Great food, great poeple and very inexpensive if you behave yourself...
gene Nov 3rd 2007 12:41AM
why has Itlay become graffitti capitol of the world? its a dirty shame
steve Nov 3rd 2007 12:48AM
give me warm waters and tanned maidens. the southern hemisphere rocks, babies.
Rei1 Nov 3rd 2007 2:33AM
Best online booking service? How can that be possible when booking is limited to VERY FEW countries? What a joke!!!
Rodrigo Jan 27th 2009 9:23AM
Which one is it then?
jon Nov 3rd 2007 3:31AM
mongolia-ulan battar-yurt camps-driving in a van across the deserts-sand blowing can not see other but the drivers have radar eyes-food better than imagined-people love americans-hotels will suprise americans-and safe
Sara Sidle Nov 3rd 2007 11:31AM
Scotland, is the best country especially Edinburgh!
Sherrie Dec 10th 2007 7:32PM
Sigh this person posting the kimkins links is trying to pawn off their affiliate link for a fraudulent and dangerous very low calorie diet scam.
Very low calorie diets should only be done under medical supervision for obese people whom meet specific criteria and only for a short time provided essential nutrients are met. This diet is none of the above hence it's dangerous potential, you have people living off of water or diet drinks alone in their desperation to lose weight fast. Rapid weight loss on it's own carries a lot of risks and needs to be monitored closely.
This diet has made lots of people sick especially with their mental views towards food where these people end up afraid to eat, whats worse is that it has been heavily marketed to teenagers as well. On their forum they had a 14 year old girl struggling to eat only 500 calories per day, she wasn't even over weight!
She lied about her own weight by basing this diet around her own alleged success when she is indeed obese. She also put up a bunch of success stories which turned out to be almost all fake with photos stolen from a Russian bride website.
She made 1.2 million in one month alone from taking advantage of people desperate to lose weight.
This scam called kimkins has made it to national TV across three different channels and she has already had to go into court for a deposition for the lawsuit with snippets aired on TV. You will find a link to the kimkins deposition here amongst links to other articles by others on this controversy:
Kimkins Diet Scam: http://pinchof.blogspot.com/2007/11/kimkins-diet-scam.html
About.com have also written about this: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/populardietplans/a/kimkinsdiet.htm
Please consider removing their link.