{"id":2362,"date":"2015-05-11T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2015-05-12T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:00:48","slug":"bangkok-not-best-destination-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2362-bangkok-not-best-destination-world","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok is not best destination in the world any more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past four years <strong>the capital city of Thailand<\/strong> was voted as best destination in the world by readers of the US magazine\u00a0<em>Travel &amp; Leisure<\/em>. But that was before&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5614\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5614 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/wat-phra-kaew-temple-royal-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Wat Phra Kaew Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bangkok loses its position as the world&#8217;s best destination<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 list has just been revealed by the magazine team and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/bangkok\"><strong>Bangkok<\/strong><\/a> is not at\u00a0the first place any more. Worse, Bangkok is not in the top 10 at all.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive nosedive that sohould\u00a0be probably explained by the tense political situation in Thailand and particularly in Bangkok\u00a0in 2014 \u00a0and by the coup in late May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>After several weeks of strict rules including curfew, the country had gradually regained its appeal to tourists but this is probably here you have to look\u00a0to understand why\u00a0Bangkok is not in the Top 10 best destinations in the world of Travel &amp; Leisure magazine any more.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt the Thai capital regin a place\u00a0in this Top 10.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Travel-Leisure..jpg\" alt=\"destinations voyage\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So now <strong>Kyoto in Japan, is best destination in the world,<\/strong> followed by Charleston in the United States, Florence in Italy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambodee.com\/en\/cities\/siem-reap\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Siem Reap in Cambodia<\/strong><\/a>, neighboring city of Angkor and Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past four years the capital city of Thailand was voted as best destination<\/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-2362","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\/2362","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=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}