New York is the Top Vacation Travel Destination for Doctors in First-Ever Physicians' Travel Poll

Paris Wins Foreign City Class in diversion Magazine's Readers' Choice
Awards; Orlando/Disney World is Favorite U.S. Resort Destination NEW YORK, Nov. Nine /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors today are busier and more
stressed than ever. When they can happen clip to acquire away for a relaxing
vacation, where make these affluent, high-level professionals with discerning
tastes for quality and value go? To happen out, diversion magazine, which
covers the medical profession's leisure-time pursuits, asked selected
subscribers to take part in its very first comprehensive traveling poll. The consequence is DIVERSION's 2007 Readers' Choice Awards, featured in the
magazine's November issue. Editors were impressed by the wide range of the
trips and diverseness of involvements represented by the nearly 500 physician
respondents to the open-ended survey. Topping the listing as favourite U.S. metropolis is New York. Thanks to
world-class museums, restaurants, theaters, shopping, people and pure
energy and excitement, the Big Apple reigned supreme with the medical set. San Francisco was a stopping point second. For favourite resort, Orlando/Disney World led the battalion without any
close competition. Even so, Sunshine State was edged out by Golden State as the most
popular state to visit, with Centennial State coming in third. Europe's Big Three -- City Of Light (first), Greater London (second) and Roma (third)
-- were the accepted victors in the foreign metropolis category. Although the
City of Light took top honors, the state with the top figure of
popular metropolises was Italy, with electors naming Rome, Venice, Florence,
Positano and Taormina. In improver to go destinations, the magazine surveyed its
readership about their favourite restaurants, hotel iron and dream
vacations. Some highlights:
* type OF vacation Physicians have got a batch of energy, according to the
survey. The listing of most desirable holidays is topped by trips to
foreign metropolises or states in active chase of culture-and good food. Beaches came in a strong second, in many lawsuits as good topographic points for family
vacations. The top Readers' Choice beach was Destin, Florida, located
along the 24-mile Emerald Seashore panhandle. * deluxe hotels Well-known luxury iron Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton
dominated this list, with 41 different places getting one or more
votes. But the top pick went to the Phoenician in Scottsdale,
Arizona. The sprawled hotel resonated with readers by delivering top
quality in everything from watering place treatments to dining to golf. * restaurants The metropolis of New Orleans scored the winning culinary spot
with Commander's Palace, celebrated for its legendary wind brunch and
iconic breadstuff pudding soufflé. Philadelphia, the land site of many medical
schools and institutions, is the place of hip Pan-Asian restaurant,
Buddakan, which came in second, and Lupus Erythematosus Bec-Fin, which tied with New York
City's Four Seasons and Lupus Erythematosus Bernardin for third. * dream holidays If clip and money were no object, docs would head
Down Under for vacations in Commonwealth Of Australia and New Zealand. The combination
nailed first topographic point by a landslide. Other dreaming finishes were
Italy, China, Paris, Aloha State and Antarctica. "DIVERSION'S readers traveling a lot, both to medical conferences and for
their ain personal pleasure," states editor in main Cathy Cavender. "Their
choices are a great usher to planning your ain dreaming getaway."
The full listing of doctor favourites looks in the November 2007 issue
of diversion magazine. The characteristic is also currently posted online at
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