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Moscow named best tourist city in the world

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Moscow named best tourist city in the world


29.11.2020

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Moscow once again won the World Travel Awards this year, TASS reports. For the 2nd time, the Russian capital has received the award, which is called the tourism Oscar, in the main category. It is recognized as the best city in the world for tourism.

According to the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow was supposed to host the participants of the grand final this year, but due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation, the ceremony was moved online. The head of the city again invited everyone to visit as soon as the threat passed.

St. Petersburg won the World Travel Awards in the World's Leading Cultural Destination nomination. It outstripped Paris, London, Rome, New York, Beijing, Sydney, Venice, Rio de Janeiro.

Governor Alexander Beglov recalled that in 2019 more than 10 million tourists visited the northern capital. In 2020, St. Petersburg was ready to receive even more guests, but the pandemic thwarted these plans. 

The winner in three categories at once was the Yalta tourist complex Mriya Resort & SPA. It has been competing on an equal footing with other world resorts and famous chains for the sixth year already.

This time, the organizers recognized Mriya Resort & SPA as the world's best resort, the world's best premium family resort and the world's best health resort.

Six years ago, the founder of the award, Graham Cook, said that the World Travel Awards had nothing to do with politics, which allowed the Crimean resort to participate and win annually, bringing world fame to the Republic of Crimea.

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