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The frontier of travel

South Africa regularly appears in travel industry awards and at the top of tourism polls. For example:

• Readers of the UK’s Daily and Sun Telegraph voted Cape Town as their Favourite World City, with South Africa cracking the top four in the list of the Best Destinations on Earth. Readers of Travel & Leisure Magazine voted Cape Town the third best city in 2008.
• National Geographic Traveler named Cape Town one of 50 Places of a Lifetime.
• iExplore.com, one of America’s most popular online travel guides, ranked South Africa second in its list of the Top Ten World Travel Destinations.
• At the 2008 World Luxury Hotel Awards, South Africa won six categories and had 21 finalists. The Arabella Western Cape Hotel and Spa was named Best Luxury Coastal Hotel in the World; The Palazzo Monetcasino was named Best Luxury Casino Resort; Pezula Resort Hotel and Spa was named Best Luxury Boutique Hotel; Chitwa Chitwa Game Lodge was named Best Luxury Lodge; Sabi Sabi Private Game Lodge was named Best Luxury Game Lodge; and De Hoek Country House was named Best Luxury Country House in the World. South Africa was home to the winner and all the finalists in both the Luxury Game Lodge and Luxury Country House categories.
• At the International Luxury Awards held in Lugano, Switzerland, Cape Town was awarded top honours in the Best Entertainment Category.
• At the 2008 World Travel Awards, Pride of Africa: Rovos Rail was voted the World’s Leading Luxury Train; Shamwari Game Reserve was voted the World’s Leading Conservation Company and the World’s Leading Safari and Game Reserve; and The Saxon Boutique Hotel and Spa was voted the World’s Leading Boutique Hotel. In the Africa category of the awards, South Africa took home 17 of the 24 awards.
• Table Mountain is one of the finalists to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature
• Readers of Travel and Leisure Magazine voted Singita Sabi Sands and Singita Kruger National Park the Best Hotel in the World for the third time in 2008, a new record. Readers of Conde Naste Traveller agreed.
• La Colombe was voted the best restaurant in the Middle East and Africa in the annual S. Pellegrino list of the World’s 100 Best Restaurants, where it placed 12th. Le Quartier Francais in Franschoek and Rust en Vrede in Stellenbosch both cracked a nod in the listing.