{"id":50698,"date":"2015-07-08T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_charleston_sc_rated_best_destination_in_u-s-_and_canada\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:00:08","slug":"local_paper_charleston_sc_rated_best_destination_in_u-s-_and_canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50698","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Charleston SC rated best destination in U.S. and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of Travel + Leisure ranked Charleston as the No. 1 city to visit in the U.S. and Canada in its 2014 World&#8217;s Best Awards announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Charleston landed the No. 2 slot in the publication&#8217;s top 10 list of best cities in the world overall. Kyoto, Japan, took the leading spot by a fraction.<\/p>\n<p>Cities are given numeric scores based on readers&#8217;s ratings of sights and landmarks, culture and arts, restaurants and food, people, and value.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that Charleston encapsulates the authentic travel experience for which Travel + Leisure readers are looking,&#8221; said Dan Blumenstock, director of hotel operations of Fennel Holdings and chair of the Charleston Area Convention &#038; Visitors Bureau. &#8220;That readers ranked Charleston the best city in the U.S. and Canada is a testament to Charleston&#8217;s viability as a world-class destination for travelers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140702\/PC05\/140709886\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of Travel + Leisure ranked Charleston as the No. 1 city to visit in the U.S. and Canada in its 2014 World&#8217;s Best Awards announced Wednesday. Charleston landed the No. 2 slot in the publication&#8217;s top 10 list of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50698\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,49,54,615,582,589,149,89,151,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-general-interest","category-south-carolina","category-city-government","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-media","category-politics-in-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}