Cape Town wins several awards at the 2021 World Travel Awards

The mother city was crowned the world’s leading destination for festivals and events at the 2021 World Travel Awards. This is the second year the city is winning the award.

The World Travel Awards' world category winners were announced yesterday, where Cape Town won the prestigious award for leading destination for festivals and events on the globe. The Africa and Indian Ocean winners were announced on 21 October 2021. Courtesy: Pixabay

Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Cannes were among the cities that Cape Town outranked this year.

The city was also nominated for leading city break destination, leading city destination and leading seaside metropolitan destination in the world category.

Additionally, Cape Town won several awards in the Africa category. The city beat Durban in securing the win as Africa’s leading city destination, and the international airport managed to keep the Africa’s leading airport award in the city for the fifth year.

The world wonder, Table Mountain, also won the award for Africa’s leading tourist attraction.

Done By: Caitlin Maledo