{"id":31315,"date":"2017-10-04T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/stati\/za-chto-sankt-peterbyrg-polychil-tyristicheskogo-oskara.html"},"modified":"2017-10-04T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T22:01:09","slug":"za-chto-sankt-peterbyrg-polychil-tyristicheskogo-oskara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/stati\/za-chto-sankt-peterbyrg-polychil-tyristicheskogo-oskara","title":{"rendered":"Why St. Petersburg received a tourism Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/14e7ad489cb91da36a150ddfc067697a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tOn Saturday, September 30, the World Travel Awards ceremony took place at the Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg won the &quot;Most Attractive City for Tourism in Europe 2017&quot; category.<\/p>\n<p>100 cities from around the world competed with each other. <!--more-->Participants included leading tourist destinations and popular destinations such as Barcelona, Rome, Paris, London and Amsterdam. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this isn&#039;t the first time Russia&#039;s northern capital has won a World Travel Award. Two years ago, St. Petersburg was named Europe&#039;s Best Tourist Destination. A year later, it won the &quot;Leading Cultural and Tourism Destination&quot; category. For this reason, the awards ceremony was held in Russia\u2014the first time in the competition&#039;s history. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think it&#039;s truly remarkable how people here in St. Petersburg embrace the preservation of history and culture,&quot; said Graham Cook, head of the competition&#039;s organizing committee. He also noted that one of the northern capital&#039;s advantages is the cleanliness and well-maintained streets.  <\/p>\n<p>The World Travel Awards were founded in 1993. Tourism experts often refer to them as the &quot;Oscars&quot; of travel. Airlines, hotels, travel companies, and others are evaluated in various categories.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.turizm.ru\/russia\/54133.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.turizm.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, September 30, the World Travel Awards ceremony took place at the Ethnographic Museum in the northern capital. St. Petersburg became<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}