Check out pics: St. Petersburg named best tourist destination in Europe again

Updated on: Sep 6, 2016, 10:07:12 IST

By Anonymous, St. Petersburg

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About 1 million tourists and tourism experts voted for St. Petersburg in 2016. The main parameters to determine a winner in this nomination are safety, infrastructure and hotel chain.

St. Petersburg won the World Travel Awards’ best tourist destination in Europe’ nomination for two consecutive years, the official site of World Travel Awards said on Monday.

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About 1 million tourists and tourism experts voted for St. Petersburg in 2016. The main parameters to determine a winner in this nomination are safety, infrastructure and hotel chains, Xinhua news agency reported.

Since 2015, China leads in the number of foreign tourists visiting St. Petersburg.

World Travel Awards was established in 1993.

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ✍🏻 Helen Keller

A photo posted by tout est possible (@clarabeltan) on Sep 5, 2016 at 8:55pm PDT

Классика 💜 . Большое Спасибо📷 @mokhnachewa

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One of the many spectacular exteriors of St Petersburg, the Hermitage Museum. #Russia #stpetersburg #thehermitagemuseum

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.paste your face and you are in St. Petersburg, good mo🙏/как обычно мне повезло с погодой и супер-солнечный день я провел в компании @vinnie_grapes и @annie_grapes за что им отдельный респект, не многие соглашаются идти "куда-то в ту сторону" непонятно вообще зачем. Собственно, спасибо ребятам за приют и терпение✊

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