{"id":41762,"date":"2013-07-15T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=41762"},"modified":"2013-07-15T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:06:37","slug":"cape-town-is-a-world-class-african-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/41762\/cape-town-is-a-world-class-african-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town is a world class African city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey conducted by Travel+Leasure has named Cape Town as the 4th best city in the world, and the best in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Travel + Leasure is a monthly international travel magazine and claims to have 4.8 million readers. The magazine compiles an annual list of top cities, hotels and getaways, based on a questionnaire given to its readers.<\/p>\n<p>For its 2013 best cities ranking, Cape Town retained the same position as it did in 2012, beaten only by Florence (Italy), Istanbul (Turkey) and Bankok (Thailand)<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>#<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>City<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Score<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Bangkok<\/td>\n<td>Thailand<\/td>\n<td>90.40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Istanbul<\/td>\n<td>Turkey<\/td>\n<td>89.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Florence<\/td>\n<td>Italy<\/td>\n<td>89.84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Cape Town<\/td>\n<td>South Africa<\/td>\n<td>89.57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Kyoto<\/td>\n<td>Japan<\/td>\n<td>89.31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Rome<\/td>\n<td>Italy<\/td>\n<td>89.09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Charleston<\/td>\n<td>USA<\/td>\n<td>88.65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Barcelona<\/td>\n<td>Spain<\/td>\n<td>88.45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Paris<\/td>\n<td>France<\/td>\n<td>88.35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Chiang Mai<\/td>\n<td>Thailand<\/td>\n<td>88.15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>The scores are indexed averages of responses concerning applicable characteristics, rated on scale of 1 to 5.<\/p>\n<p>The cities were scored on their sights, culture\/arts, restaurants\/food, people, shopping, value &#8211; as well as an optional criterion for romance.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is also home to 3 of the top 10 hotels listed by the magazine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Singita, Kruger National Park (3rd)<\/li>\n<li>Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve (9th)<\/li>\n<li>Singita Sabi Sand (10th)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Joburg not a \u201cworld-class African city\u201d: ASA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/41665\/joburg-not-a-world-class-african-city-asa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Joburg not a \u201cworld-class African city\u201d: ASA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Top 20 global mobile operators\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/41472\/top-20-global-mobile-operators\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top 20 global mobile operators<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Richest IT people in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/22288\/richest-it-people-in-south-africa\/\">Richest IT people in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey has placed Cape Town amongst the top 5 cities in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,2279,6289,6288],"class_list":["post-41762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-cape-town","tag-rank","tag-travel-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41977,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762\/revisions\/41977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}