October 16, 2008 

CONDÉ NAST TRAVELER ANNOUNCES WINNERS

OF ANNUAL READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS 

Top Cities in the World to Visit Include: 

New York (October 16, 2008) – Condé Nast Traveler today announced the results of its 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards, ranking the best cities, cruise lines, airlines, hotels and resorts worldwide.   The awards appear in the November issue (on newsstands October 21) and are derived from the Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Survey, the largest independent poll of consumers’ preferences in the U.S.  This year, 32,633 readers voted. 

“These awards celebrate the destinations, lodgings, and modes of transportation that manage to exceed our expectations,” said Condé Nast Traveler Editor in Chief Klara Glowczewska.  “The Readers’ Choice Awards, with over 32,000 readers voting, are a credit to the worldly expertise of our readers—passionate travelers for whom no island is too remote, no city too challenging, and no hotel too untested.”   

The full list of winners is on cntraveler.com at:

http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/500074 

Below are results for the top three winners in each category

Top Hotels- Central America

1. Casa Santo Domingo, Antigua
2. Lapa Rios Ecolodge, Osa Peninsuala, Costa Rica
3. Porta Hotel Antingua, Guatemala

The Readers Choice Awards gala took place on Wednesday, October 15th in New York City at the New York Public Library.  Select photos and video from the event are available upon request. 

Methodology
Every year since 1988, a select sample of Condé Nast Traveler readers have taken the Readers’ Choice Survey.  In 2008, the questionnaire was available to all readers through a secure Web site.  The final tabulations of 32,633 responses were done by Mediamark Research, Inc., of New York City.   Poll categories (Cities, Hotels, etc.), and the criteria for each appear at the bottom of the first page in every category.  Questionnaires contained lists of candidates (individual cities, hotels, etc.), and write-ins were allowed.  Only candidates that received a required minimum number of responses were deemed eligible for an award.  Each candidate was rated, criterion by criterion, on a five-point scale: excellent, very good, good, fair, poor.  Criterion scores, which represent the percentage of respondents rating a candidate excellent or very good, were averaged to determine the final score—e.g., in the category of Islands, Maui’s 89.5 is the average of its scores for Activities, Atmosphere/Ambience, Beaches, Friendliness, Lodging, Restaurants, and Scenery.    

About Condé Nast Traveler 
Truth in Travel:  Many travel publications accept free travel and accommodations.  Condé Nast Traveler does not, and its correspondents, as far as possible, travel anonymously.  They experience travel the way consumers do, both the good and the bad, and report on it fairly and honestly.  In 2008, Condé Nast Traveler was named one of the top 10 magazines in the U.S. by both Adweek and Advertising Age, one of only three magazines in the U.S. to be named to both lists.   Condé Nast Traveler has an audience of 3.1 million and is published by Condé Nast Publications, Inc.  The magazine’s Website is cntraveler.com. 

Media Contacts: 

Ty Trippet

Condé Nast Traveler

+1-212-286-7833

ty_trippet@condenast.com 

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