Sri Lanka has come fifth in the ‘Top 20 countries in the world’ ranking by the popular and influential Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards.
In its ranking, published on 5 October (https://www.cntraveler.com/story/top-countries-in-the-world) Portugal was ranked top, followed by New Zealand, Japan and Morocco.
The other destinations listed as favourites in the order of rankings are Italy, Iceland, Greece, Croatia, Turkey, Norway, Maldives, Kenya, Ireland, Israel, Australia, Switzerland, Indonesia, Botswana and Philippines.
Last year, Sri Lanka was ranked second after Italy, which was placed sixth this year.
Condé Nast Traveller is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast.
The 2021 Readers’ Choice Awards is the third year running that Condé Nast Traveller has teamed up with its sister title in the USA. With restrictions lifting and the industry unlocking, responses from more than 800,000 readers reveal travellers are raring to go, with the majority saying they wanted to take more trips.
It also ranked the best hotels, resorts, cities, islands, villas, tours, trains, airlines, airports, and cruises in the world.
(FT)