News and Events - January 2009

San Francisco Receives Extensive National Acclaim in 2008

It is no wonder that San Francisco continues to be known as “America’s Favorite City.” While we are somewhat biased in our pronouncement that San Francisco offers the best in dining, entertainment, museums, attractions, events and hotels, many others shared our sentiments over the past year. Here is a sampling of what others had to say about our great city in 2008:

The readers of Condé Nast Traveler magazine voted San Francisco Best U.S. City in their annual Readers’ Choice Awards. San Francisco has been ranked number one for 18 out of the past 19 years.

San Francisco was named the most "walkable" city in the nation by the web site WalkScore.com. New York was second with 83 and Boston third with 79.

San Francisco International Airport was named as the Best Airport in North America based on passenger survey results released in 2008 by Skytrax, the aviation industry’s leading independent quality research organization.

San Francisco was named the number two city in the United States and Canada and one of the Top 10 cities in the world in Travel & Leisure Magazine’s World’s Best Awards 2008 readers’ survey. San Francisco has been ranked in the number one or two spot on the list of Top Cities in the United States and Canada for the past 13 years since the magazine started the poll in 1996.

San Francisco is the second greenest U.S. city according to Popular Science. The March 2008 issue names "America’s 50 Greenest Cities," ranked on renewable energy, transportation and air quality, green buildings and public spaces, and recycling.

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