Top 10 cities: A reader survey

Published 2:36 pm Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Savannah, Ga., has made it on to Travel + Leisure’s list of top 10 cities in the U.S. and Canada for the first time, according to the results of a magazine reader survey.

The list was topped by New York for the eighth consecutive year, followed by San Francisco, Chicago, Charleston, S.C., and Santa Fe, N.M. Next were three Canadian cities, Quebec City, Montreal and Vancouver, with Savannah ninth on the list and the British Columbia city of Victoria at No. 10.

Among world cities, Bangkok was named No. 1, followed by Buenos Aires; Cape Town, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; Florence, Italy; Cuzco, Peru; Rome; New York; Istanbul, Turkey, and San Francisco.

The complete 2008 results, including top 100 hotels, are available online now at www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest and in Travel + Leisure’s August issue, on newsstands July 22.

Associated Press