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TOP 10 CITIES

RANK	'12	NAME	SCORE
1	1	Bangkok	90.40
2	3	Istanbul	89.96
3	2	Florence	89.84
4	4	Cape Town	89.57
5	9	Kyoto, Japan	89.31
6	6	Rome	89.09
7	-	Charleston, South Carolina	88.65
8	-	Barcelona	88.45
9	10	Paris	88.35
10	-	Chiang Mai, Thailand	88.15

- means that the winner was not among the top-ranked in this category last year.

denotes a World's Best Awards debut.

denotes a rate of $250 or less

denotes Hall of Fame

denotes T+L Find

Throughout the World’s Best Awards, scores are rounded to the nearest hundredth of a point; in the event of an exact tie, properties, companies, or destinations share the same ranking.