Always find these awards a bit sus. A lot of them make a bunch of money from sponsors who they then give awards to. Not saying that’s the case here, but the voting process doesn’t seem to have been exactly transparent:
> An open ballot phase of the voting was conducted during the summer, and readers were invited to write in the names of any company they believed best exemplified a particular category. The leading vote recipients were identified as finalists, and a second round of voting on those names took place in the fall.
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Travel rags always do this for clicks.
No shit.
We’re class…
How do we lower our rating?
Always find these awards a bit sus. A lot of them make a bunch of money from sponsors who they then give awards to. Not saying that’s the case here, but the voting process doesn’t seem to have been exactly transparent:
> An open ballot phase of the voting was conducted during the summer, and readers were invited to write in the names of any company they believed best exemplified a particular category. The leading vote recipients were identified as finalists, and a second round of voting on those names took place in the fall.
Like who are these voters in the secondary round.
https://www.travelweekly.com/Readers-Choice-2022/The-list-of-winners-of-the-2022-Readers-Choice-Awards
There’s so many of these types of publications going best this and best that most countries in Europe probably have had them say they’re the best.
Magazines are dead.