VirtualTourist's five million travellers rank Broome, WA in 'top 10 to visit'

MICEBTN Archive Stories Issue 29

Thursday, 20 September 2007

THE WESTERN Australian holiday town of Broome has made the top 10 international destinations list of what’s claimed to be the world’s largest online travel community.

US-based VirtualTourist.com claims to draw over five million travellers every month, who research upcoming trips and share travel reviews, tips and photographs from previous trips.

“Every traveller wants to hear of a place before it’s on the radar of the tourist masses,” said Giampiero Ambrosi, general manager of VirtualTourist. “That’s why, with the help of our membership base of expert, seasoned travellers, we’ve put together these lists.” We forego recently mainstreamed tourist spots like Croatia and Costa Rica in favour of destinations like Bulgaria and Suriname, places with offerings so spectacular that they are quickly becoming the ‘next best big thing.’”

Here’s its top International and US destinations:

International

• Gdansk, Poland.
• Nesebar, Bulgaria.
• San Ignacio, Belize.
• Antananarivo, Madagascar.
• Paramaribo, Suriname.
• Xining, China.
• Broome, Australia.
• Harz Mountains, Germany.
• Tofo Beach, Mozambique.

United States

• Olympic National Park, Washington
• Sitka, Alaska.
• Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania.
• Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
• Cody, Wyoming.
• Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia.
• Bayfield, Wisconsin.
• McCall, Idaho.
• Wolfeboro, Vermont.
• Crested Butte, Colorado.