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Santa Fe Remains
a Top Choice for Travelers
In Conde Nast
Traveler Magazine's Readers Poll
 SANTA
FE, NEW MEXICO-For the fifteenth straight year the
sophisticated travelers who subscribe to CONDE NAST
TRAVELER magazine have voted Santa Fe one of their
favorite travel destinations in the U.S.. Santa Fe
was selected as the Second most popular travel city
in the country after San Francisco and ahead of a
host of desirable travel towns in the magazine's
19th Annual Readers' Choice Awards.
Photos
of Santa Fe The
awards were presented on Monday evening (10/16) in
New York during a star-filled party at the American
Museum of Natural History. Winners were announced
in a variety of categories after nearly 28,000
readers of the publication voted for their favorite
travel cities, islands, airlines, hotels, and other
travel-service providers from around the world.
Great
Santa Fe Horse Race. The Ride of a
Lifetime
Santa
Fe ranks High in Cities Survey
But the big award
of the night went to the reader's top 3 favorite
American travel destinations: San Francisco, SANTA
FE, and New York. Video clips of each of the top 3
cities were shown at times during the event with
the announcement of the order of the top 3 coming
as the highlight of the evening. The proceedings
were video taped for broadcast later on the Travel
Channel. Both
Santa Fe Mayor David Coss and interim Executive
Director of the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors
Bureau Tom Maguire attended the ceremony at the
invitation of CONDE NAST.
"Delivering on the
promise of Santa Fe's appeal is up to everyone a
tourist encounters during their stay," Mayor Coss
said. "There is no way the city could continually
appear at the top of this list without Santa Fe's
retailers, lodgers, restaurants, artists,
musicians, attractions, service businesses, and
citizens all providing a quality
experience,"
Tom Maguire
said,"It is so gratifying for Santa Fe to
repeatedly be ranked with such outstanding cities
as New York, San Francisco, and the rest of these
well-known travel destinations. It is a testament
to Santa Fe's enduring allure and a reminder of
just how remarkable a place it is."
Santa
Fe has been rated as one of the top U.S. travel
destinations by the poll for the last 15 straight
years: In 1992 Santa Fe was just a write-in
candidate but received enough votes from the
magazine's readers to be chosen the number one
travel destination in the world. In 1993 Santa Fe
was voted second in domestic travel spots as it was
in 1994 and 1995. For 1996 Santa Fe was rated
fourth and in 1997 and 1998 it was ranked the third
most popular U.S. destination. In 1999 and 2000
Santa Fe was ranked as the fourth most desirable
destination city in the U.S., and in 2001 Santa Fe
placed eighth in the poll. In 2002 and 2003 the
city was placed in fifth spot and in 2004 and 2005
the city again placed second.
The "Top Ten US
Cities" as ranked in the 19th Annual Conde Nast
Traveler Readers' Choice Awards: #1. San Francisco;
#2. Santa Fe; #3. New York; #4. Chicago; #5.
Charleston, S.C.; #6. Carmel, CA;; #7. Honolulu;
#8. Aspen; #9 Seattle; #10 Sedona. The results of
the poll will be featured in the magazine's
November issue which goes on newsstands later in
October and will also appear on the magazine's web
site, http://www.cntraveller.com/.
Every year since
1988, a select sample of Conde Nast Traveler
readers have taken the Readers' Choice Survey. The
final tabulations of responses were done by
Mediamark Research, Inc. of New York City. Each
candidate was rated, criterion by criterion, as
excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor.
Criterion scores, which represent the percentage of
respondents rating a candidate excellent or very
good, are averaged to determine the final score.
For further
information contact:
Tom Maguire,
505-955-6215, trmaguire@santafenm.gov
Steve Lewis,
505-690-3367, slewis577@earthlink.net
1916 Camino
Lumbre
Santa Fe, NM
87505
505.473.9002 / fax
505.473.3899
Contact:
Sarah
Robarts
sarah@ballantinespr.com
310-454-3080
Tel.
310 570 7355
Cell
http://www.ballantinespr.com
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