{"id":2339,"date":"2015-04-22T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2015-04-22T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T08:29:47","slug":"thailand-islands-dominate-travellers-top-10-islands-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2339-thailand-islands-dominate-travellers-top-10-islands-asia","title":{"rendered":"Thailand islands dominate travellers&#8217; Top 10 islands in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost a tradition since this classification exists, Thai\u00a0islands are in very good position in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com.sg\/TravelersChoice-Islands-cTop-g2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the \u00a0TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Top 10 Islands in Asia<\/strong><\/a>. The favorite island destination in Asia for TripAdvisorers is &#8230; in Thailand !<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/villes\/koh-tao\/koh-tao-thailand-thailande.jpg\" alt=\"Koh Tao\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koh Tao is TripAvisor&#8217;s visitors favorite island in Asia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Half of the Top 10 is monopolized by Thai islands, the remaining ranks\u00a0are occupied by Indonesia and the Phillipines with 2 representatives and Malaysia with one\u00a0representative.<\/p>\n<h2>Top 10 best Asian islands (according to the TripAdvisor Travellers Choice 2015):<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Koh Tao in Thailand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bali, Indonesia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phuket\u00a0in Thailand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/koh-samui\"><strong>Koh Samui in Thailand<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lombok in Indonesia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Koh Lanta in Thailand<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/koh-phangan\"><strong>Koh Phangan in Thailand<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Boracay Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Palawan Island in the Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Langkawi in Malaysia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A\u00a0few months ago, I would have told you that seing\u00a0the island of Koh Tao leading the Top 10 islands in Asia was not a surprise. But after\u00a0the mysterious deaths and disappearances of some tourists on the island since last September,\u00a0I thought Koh Tao will\u00a0fall in the\u00a0ranking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1348\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1348 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/phuket-karon-560x374.jpg\" alt=\"Phuket\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/phuket-karon-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/phuket-karon-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/phuket-karon.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phuket is ranked 3rd favorite island TripAdvisoriens in Asia (here Karon Beach)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a general way, this Top 10 does not list the most beautiful islands but rather lists\u00a0the more populaur islands\u00a0among travelers addicted to TripAdvisor. And it is not the same thing ! TripAdvisor publishes the choice of travelers, that is where they are going the most, where there are the most tourists.<\/p>\n<p>It is not their classification you\u00a0must rely to find your <strong>paradise island in Thailand<\/strong> or in Asia or anywhere on the planet. TripAdvisor is about\u00a0mass tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, worldwide, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/koh-tao\" target=\"_blank\">Koh Tao<\/a> ranks 5th in the\u00a0world&#8217;s top 10 islands and is the only Thai representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is almost a tradition since this classification exists, Thai\u00a0islands are in very good position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}