Number 9
Beirut was just ranked in the list of the Top 10 best cities to travel to in the world according to Travel+Leisure's annual "World's Best" awards. The list of award-winners is based on an annual survey of 23,000 readers who provided evaluations for nearly 500,000 destinations, hotels, airlines and other travel entities. Florence, Italy came as number 1, followed by Rome, Bangkok, Sydney, Chiang Mai (Thailand), Cape Town, Buenos Aires, New York, Beirut and San Francisco.However, Beirut - which appeared in the Top 10 list for the first time - was ranked before the fighting broke out between Israel and Hezbollah. This survey is rather significant first of all due to the sample size and secondly due to the fact that it is ranked by readers rather than writers.
We might be off the list for now, but I assure you we will be back on it within 2 years at most .
To see the results, click here.
posted by beirutlive at 9:35 AM
5 Comments:
I've never been to Beirut, but from the little I've heard the survey rings right.
Why don't u come visit me at www.orriting.blogspot.com
Maybe we can arrange an exchnage and u can come over and visit my home town.
First of all , my congratulations .
I hope that Beirut will come back to the list as soon as possible and clime further.
If we look by region ,
http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/2006/results.cfm?cat=citiesafme
Beirut comes second and Jerusalem third in the Middle East and Africa.
Hope for the quick (at list interim) peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
Sorry , I mean "climb further".
well for sure we will be back within 2 years, but i think it s important that people COME BACK to beirut, all those who left for a forced vacation! i am coming back myself in 2 to 3 weeks, i have been away now for 3 weeks and i cant wait to be back, even if i might go back to the unknown somehow. but people out there COME BACK for real, it s very important, dont turn ur back on beirut now.
Beirut is "da bomb" it's "on fire" guys.. hehe, no seriously Beirut is KICK ASS, I fuckin love it, it's like nothing in this world.. so scintilating, so alive, in a sence fantastic, yet so real at the same time... and it's got everything. Period. Anything you could wish for you can find it here. Kick ASS i tell you.
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