Readers' Choice Awards 2011
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Methodology
Pictured: A room at the Ritz-Carlton Shanghai Pudong, courtesy of the hotel
The Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Survey, begun in 1988, is available to all readers through a secure Web site. This year's final tabulations of 28,876 responses were done by Global Market Insite, Inc., of Boston.
ORGANIZATION
The online questionnaire contains lists of candidates in various categories (Cities, Hotels, etc.). Individual candidates are judged by relevant criteria for each. Those that receive a required minimum number of responses are deemed eligible for a Readers' Choice Award.
EVALUATION
Each candidate is rated, criterion by criterion, on a five-point scale: excellent, very good, good, fair, and poor. Those scores, which represent the percentage of respondents rating a candidate excellent or very good, are averaged to determine the final score published here. For example, the Park Hyatt Seoul's rating, 95.2, is the average of its scores for all hotel criteria: Food/Dining, Location, Overall Design, Rooms, and Service.
Information may have changed since date of publication. Please confirm details with individual establishments before planning your trip.
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