Norwegian tourists love Thailand

BANGKOK: -- Thailand has been voted as the World Best Tourist Country in the Norwegian Grand Travel Awards 2007 held in Oslo, Norway earlier this month, according to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry said that the Thai Embassy in Oslo reported that it is the fourth consecutive year Thailand won the annual award organised by Travel News Magazine of Norway.

Greece, Denmark and Italy ranked second, third and fourth respectively.

Meanwhile, Thai Airways International was also voted Best International Airlines in the airline category.

Norway's Travel News Magazine sponsors the Grand Travel Awards annually, this year being its 12th yearly event.

The awards were divided into 17 categories.

The award granted to Thailand resulted from an opinion poll of more than 300 tourism industry-related companies in Norway.

In a related development, the Chicago Tribune newspaper in the United States on January 7 ranked

Thailand as first among the top ten Top Value For-Money Countries under the Country Brand Index 2006 rankings.

To complete the top ten list, Indonesia, the United States, Turkey, Spain, India, Vietnam, Singapore, Greece and Hungary are included in the rankings.

--TNA 2007-01-18

Ole Muang Thai is defo right up there (don't know about the airline though) but I'd have to put Spain and New Zealand above it as tourist destinations. If we were to talk purely from a nightly entertainment perspective then the former wins hands down.

Ole Muang Thai is defo right up there (don't know about the airline though) but I'd have to put Spain and New Zealand above it as tourist destinations. If we were to talk purely from a nightly entertainment perspective then the former wins hands down.

I agree, NZ is an awesome country to visit, but Thailand wins hands down as a destination to return to again and again.