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World's Worst Cities Announced

October 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

Dear Central City, Colorado: Your town sucks. Sorry. It wasn't up to us to decide. We heard it from the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations, which released preliminary data on its findings, to be published in next month's National Geographic Traveler.

The list cites Central City's uncontrolled casino growth as the reason for its number one slot. Second on the list is Phnom Penh, because of its "indifferent government." True enough! But selling the riverside French colonial city with its distinct architecture, vast cuisine and kind populace short because it has crappy managers is like writing off America for the same reason. And we wouldn't want to do that, now would we?

The survey is not yet available on the organization's website, but keep checking: It should appear before the end of October, in time for Traveler's November issue.

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[Photo of Phnom Penh: serge]

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Here's the list of the best and worst historic destinations from National Geo Traveler 's website, with comments from the judges on how they evaluated each place on stewardship: http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/historic-destinations-rated/intro-text
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