Telegraph Travel Awards 2017: Cape Town has just been named "greatest city on Earth" for the fifth year in a row!

For the fifth consecutive year, Cape Town has scooped the Best City Award in the 2017 edition of one of Britain's most comprehensive, wide-ranging and reliable reader travel surveys, the annual Telegraph Travel Awards. Almost 90,000 people took part in the survey and voted for their favourite travel destinations and companies. 

2017 Telegraph Travel Awards - Top 10 Cities:

1. Cape Town, South Africa (=)
2. Vancouver, Canada (=)
3. Tokyo, Japan (+2)
4. Venice, Italy (-1)
5. Sydney, Australia (-1)
6. New York, USA (=)
7. Seville, Spain (+2)
8. Florence, Italy (+5)
9. San Francisco, USA (-2)
10. Rome, Italy (=)

btw - South Africa was voted third most favourite country in the world for the fourth consecutive year by the readers of the Telegraph! Congratulations!