ATTA Members Comprise Majority of Just-released 2011 Travel + Leisure “World’s Best” Survey

18 July 2011
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SEATTLE–  Seventeen active members of the Adventure Travel Trade Association were honored in the 16th annual Travel + Leisure “World’s Best Awards” Reader’s Survey, the cover story of the August 2011 print issue of the magazine now at newsstands, and also available online, in iPad version and on iTunes.

In the Tour Operators and Safari Outfitters category, 14 of the 25 listed are ATTA constituents, including the #1 winner, Micato Safaris; three additional ATTA Member were included in either the Family Hotels or Small-Ship Cruise Line categories.

ATTA Members featured in the Travel + Leisure World’s Best, most of which also are profiled at www.adventure.travel, include:

&Beyond - #9 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Asia Transpacific Journeys - #10 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Austin-Lehman Adventures - #5 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Backroads - #17 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Butterfield & Robinson - #12 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Classic Journeys - #11 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Country Walkers - #16 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Cox & Kings - #6 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel - #1 Family Hotel in Latin America
Lindblad Expeditions - #4 Small-Ship Cruise line and #1 Small-Ship Cruise Line for Families
Micato Safaris - #1 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Mountain Travel Sobek - #24 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Natural Habitat Adventures - #23 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Singita Gremeti Reserves - #3 Family Hotel in Africa
Singita Sabi Sand - #9 Family Hotel in Africa
Travcoa - #8 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations- #13 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter
Wilderness Safaris- #4 Tour Operator / Safari Outfitter

Established in 1990, the Seattle-based Adventure Travel Trade Association, serving nearly 800 members worldwide, is the adventure tourism industry’s trade hub. Host of the annual Adventure Travel World Summit executive trade conferences, the ATTA, a member of The Conservation Alliance, is dedicated to unifying, networking, professionalizing, promoting and responsibly growing the adventure travel market, also publishes AdventureTravelNews.com the adventure trade’s news source and makes possible Adventure.Travel, the traveler’s hub of physical, cultural and nature-based adventure travel and guide to trusted tour operators from around the globe.

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