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The Battery downtown Charleston.
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According to Helen Hill, executive executive of a Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, ?charm, hospitality, good food and accessibility? helped Charleston arrange so rarely among Travel + Leisure readers.
Survey says ?
The 2011 World?s Best Awards formula were formed on a petition grown by Travel + Leisure, in organisation with ROI Research Inc. It was finished accessible to readers online and in print. Most of a responses were collected between Dec. 1 and Mar 31.
To see a survey?s formula go to www.TravelandLeisure.com/worldsbest.
Travel + Leisure readers have always suspicion rarely of Charleston when asked about their favorite cities to visit. But never this highly.
An annual check by a monthly vacation repository admitted Charleston as a No. 2 best city in a United States and Canada for a initial time, unseating San Francisco from a second position.
New York remained in a tip mark in that category, according to a newly expelled 2011 ?World?s Best Awards,? that are formed on a yearly consult of Travel + Leisure readers.
Charleston claimed a third-place finish in 2010, and it has been bouncing around a Top 10 for many of a survey?s 16-year existence.
?We?re thrilled. This is what we work for 365 days a year,? pronounced Helen Hill, executive executive of a Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. ?We wish to see Charleston as one of a many renouned places to revisit in a country.?
Culture and arts, dining, people, selling and sights were some of a pivotal categories and characteristics that Travel + Leisure used to class a cities. Charleston seems to have finished good in all of those areas, says Hill.
?The charm, hospitality, good food and accessibility helped us get a ranking,? she said.
The ranking is poignant indeed, for Hill pronounced that it is a good event of ?spreading a word? and removing Charleston in a press. Indeed, a No. 2 ranking warranted a city a sip of auspicious broadside Thursday morning during a shred of NBC?s ?Today? show.
?The fact that we did so good is a enrich to a destination,? Hill said. ?It?s good for us.?
People from all over pronounced they suffer a city for their possess reasons.
Jeff Woodrow, an Ohio local creation his initial outing to Charleston, pronounced it?s a good place to visit.
?The people are unequivocally nice,? he pronounced while selling in a City Market. ?The Market Street?s awesome.?
Steve Strickland, from Anderson, pronounced that a food is one of a categorical attractions for him. He visits Charleston each year around a Jul 4 holiday.
Strickland pronounced he has been to a usually city that surfaced Charleston in a check this year ? New York ? and he does not wish to go behind there.
?Traffic?s bad adult there. They don?t have really many calm for my South Carolina tags,? he said. ?Traffic?s bad here too, though we can navigate improved here.?
Don and Marilynn Massey, retirees from Texas who revisit Charleston occasionally, contend they cite a South. The integrate pronounced they like to take a trollies and that they suspicion a food is opposite and good.
?People are accessible here. It?s well-laid out,? she said.
Three Charleston-area hotels also finished a cut on a 2011 World Best survey. Travel + Leisure pronounced a formula will be published in a Aug issue, that will be accessible during newsstands Jul 22.
Rooms rated
Travel + Leisure also gave a scream out to several South Carolina hotels, including 3 in a Charleston area.
Top 100 hotels
60) Inn during Palmetto Bluff*
97) The Sanctuary
Top hotels in U.S. and Canada, some-more than 100 rooms
26) Charleston Place
Top hotels in U.S. and Canada, fewer than 100 rooms
10) Planters Inn
*NOTE: Palmetto Bluff also was ranked No. 7 among tip U.S./Canadian resorts
John P. McDermott of The Post and Courier contributed to this report.
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