At Lonely Planet, debates are constantly raging over our favourite countries for food, our best-value travel finds and our number one destinations overall. These debates culminate in our annual Best in Travel selections, but we wanted to throw that question to a wider crowd by asking our fans on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Thorn Tree where they have travelled and which places they enjoyed the most. Then we asked them to rate those destinations by 16 criteria (for example, which was the best ‘Value for Money’). More than 3000 people responded, and the results are finally in.
The word cloud below shows (by size) the destinations that entered the top 10 of each category the most:
Which country was the overall winner, and which destinations rose into the top 10 for each category?