Thailand earns nearly 70 awards in SmartTravelAsia.com “Best in Travel Poll”

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Thailand earns nearly 70 awards in SmartTravelAsia.com “Best in Travel Poll”

 

Photo: Tourism Authority of Thailand

 

Thailand sweeps awards across many categories in the 2017 SmartTravelAsia.com Best in Travel Poll

Thailand performed exceptionally well in the 2017 edition of the SmartTravelAsia.com Best in Travel Poll, with Bangkok, Phuket, Ko Samui and Hua Hin all being named among the ‘Top 10 Holiday Destinations’ for Asia.

 

For Bangkok, Phuket and Ko Samui, this represents a sustained presence among the annual survey’s top echelon of holiday spots around the region, all three destinations having made 2016’s Top 10 list as well.

 

The Smart Travel Asia Best in Travel Poll 2017 also placed Bangkok and Phuket among the ‘Top 10 Cities for Meetings’ in Asia.

Thai Airways International (THAI) and Bangkok Airways each earned spots on both the ‘Top 10 Airlines Worldwide’ and ‘Top 10 Airlines, Cabin Service Worldwide’ lists. THAI, the national flag carrier, also secured a place on the ‘Top 10 Airlines, Business Class Worldwide’ ranking, while yet a third Thai airline – Nok Air – was listed among the ‘Top 10 Budget Airlines’ for Asia.

 

For Bangkok Airways, there was a further honour, with its airport on Ko Samui in the Gulf of Thailand being named among the ‘Top 10 Airports’ Worldwide.

 

On the accommodation scene, Thailand’s Centara Hotels and Resorts was named among the ‘Top 10 Hotel Brands’ for Asia, while the listings for the ‘Top 10 Boutique Hotels’ Asia, ‘Top 25 Business Hotels’ Asia, ‘Top 25 Conference Hotels’ Asia, ‘Top 25 Spa Hotels’ Asia, ‘Top 25 Leisure Hotels’ Asia and ‘Top 25 Family Hotels’ Asia all featured one or more hotels or resorts from Thailand.

 

Mr. Yuthasak Supasorn, Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, said, “We couldn’t be more pleased with the awards Thailand achieved in the Smart Travel Asia Best in Travel Poll 2017. Collectively, the various tourism-related businesses from Thailand that were named in this year’s poll rankings accounted for nearly 70 of the over 200 places up for grabs across the various poll categories. And that is great recognition and exposure for Thailand as a leading tourism destination.”

 

The SmartTravelAsia.com Best in Travel Poll is an independent, free and fair survey voted by the online magazine’s readers, which number more than 1.2 million worldwide.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/Travel_log/30323825

 

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[inThailand]

70 awards!

 

They will need a broken metered taxi just to get them all home.

Edited August 15, 2017 by inThailand
fat fingers

[gandalf12]

I thought I saw a shop in Bangkok that made all these awards. Probably started on next year's batch already.

[DerekMarshall]

Lol!! 

 

Same paid for awards that I am reading about in Penang based Daily star that ummm labelled scam awards..

 

Should read 70 awards bought and paid for by public funds!

[JohnLick]

Hua Hin is dump... no offence to those who live there

[Lupatria]

What about Pattaya as the slum of Disneyland for adults?

 

Is it sarcasm or irony? If you scroll down this page you'll find this:

 

Thailand is home to 4 of the worst airlines for safety in the world

Edited August 16, 2017 by Lupatria

[Baerboxer]

Eat your heart out whinging expats! Ask yourself why you weren't invited onto the judging panel.

 

[TVGerry]

This country isn't perfect but for the price, it is still one of the better places to travel to. There are worse places. Or you could pay through your nose for a nicer beach to holiday. 

 

On another note, it's expected that many of our fellow expats here in Thaivisa would whine about this award. I mean it's hypocritical to move here and stay here for years while bitching about the country you CHOSE to stay in. I mean sure things aren't perfect but if it were really that bad as a lot of whiners here claim it to be, we wouldn't be staying here would we?