{"id":78770,"date":"2014-04-08T21:02:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=78770"},"modified":"2014-04-08T21:02:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:02:32","slug":"au-revoir-istanbul-and-rome-knock-paris-and-new-york-off-top-spots-of-10-best-destinations-in-the-world-and-london-scoops-third-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=78770","title":{"rendered":"Au revoir! Istanbul and Rome knock Paris and New York off top spots of 10 best destinations in the world (and London scoops third place)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-78764\" alt=\"\u0553\u0561\u0580\u056b\u0566\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paris.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paris.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paris-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Paris-376x300.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paris has been knocked off the number one spot of the world\u2019s top destination \u2013 with Istanbul now firmly in first place.<\/p>\n<p>Despite announcing record tourist figures for 2013, the French capital lost out to Turkey, dropping to seventh in this year\u2019s Travellers&#8217; Choice Destinations awards, voted for by millions of holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<p>A newcomer to the top 10, Istanbul swooped in to the number one position, just ahead of Rome, which itself rose two places from fourth last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Istanbul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-78765\" alt=\"\u054d\u057f\u0561\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0582\u056c\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Istanbul.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Istanbul.jpg 964w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Istanbul-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Istanbul-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York was gazumped by Rome from second place, falling out of the top 10 of the TripAdvisor list to number 12, figures released today show.<\/p>\n<p>However, London managed to retain the same position as last year, holding fast to its title as the third best destination in the world.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s fourth place in the world\u2019s top destinations awards went to China\u2019s Beijing, followed by the Czech Republic\u2019s Prague to make up the top five.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Paris has been knocked off the number one spot of the world\u2019s top destination&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":78765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,140,137],"tags":[8992,535,1453,5128],"class_list":["post-78770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-region","category-world","tag-istanbul","tag-new-york","tag-paris","tag-rome","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}