Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards 2005
Date: Wednesday, December 28
Topic: Travel
Top Cities
Once again, Sydney earns the highest overall rating, including a world-high 93.3 for Friendliness. Italian cities scored big for Culture/Sites, while ultramodern Dubai dominates for Lodgings. In America, our readers head to beachy Carmel for Ambience, New York for Shopping, and San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans for Restaurants.
1) Vancouver, Canada
2) San Miguel de Allende, México
3) Buenos Aires, Argentina
4) Quebec, Canada
5) Columbia, Canada
6) Oaxaca, México
7) Cusco, Perú
8) Montreal, Canada
9) Toronto, Canada
10) Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
METHODOLOGY
Every year since 1988, a select sample of Condé Nast Traveler readers have taken the Readers' Choice Survey. In 2005, the questionnaire was made available to 387,205 subscribers: 289,403 subscribers were sent by mail one of several partial, 16-page editions of the survey; and 97,802 subscribers received an invitation to a secure Web site that contained the complete 84-page questionnaire. The final tabulations of 27,957 responses were done by Mediamark Research, Inc., of New York City.
Organization
Poll categories (Cities, Hotels, etc.) appear below, followed by the criteria for each. Questionnaires contained lists of candidates (individual cities, hotels, etc.), and space was allowed for write-ins. Only candidates that received a required minimum number of responses were deemed eligible for an award.
Evaluation
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, were averaged to determine the final score; e.g., Sydney's 88.8 is the average of its scores for Ambience, Friendliness, Culture/Sites, Restaurants, Lodging, and Shopping.
Cities
Ambience
Culture/Sites
Friendliness
Lodging
Restaurants
Shopping
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