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Florida's Paradise Coast Lands Five Resorts on Conde Nast Traveler's Annual Best in the World List of Top 150 U.S. Mainland Resorts
October 26, 2011

Florida's Paradise Coast region that includes Naples, Marco Island and the Gulf Coast portion of the Everglades earned five spots on the annual "Best In the World" list of

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Naples, Fla. - (October 26, 2011) - Florida's Paradise Coast region that includes Naples, Marco Island and the Gulf Coast portion of the Everglades earned five spots on the annual "Best In the World" list of Top 150 U.S. Mainland Resorts compiled by luxury travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler, with four resorts in the top fifty. La Playa Beach & Golf Resort in Naples ranked the highest on the Top 150 list at twelfth. The Ritz-Carlton, Naples ranked 30th, The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples ranked 31st, the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort ranked 41st and the Marco Beach Ocean Resort ranked 130th.

"The Paradise Coast's resorts and hotels have for years set high standards for customer service satisfaction, which is reflected in this year's showing of five properties in our region on Conde Nast Traveler's Top 150 U.S. Mainland Resorts list," said Jack Wert, executive director for the Naples, Marco Island, Everglades CVB.

The "Best in the World" list comes from Conde Nast Traveler's annual Readers' Choice Awards survey, where this year more than 8 million votes were cast rating the cities, islands and resorts and hotels readers visited in the past year, as well as the airlines and cruise ships on which they traveled. For the complete list of winners, see the November issue of Conde Nast Traveler.

For more information on visiting Naples, Marco Island and the Everglades - The Paradise Coast, call 1-800-688-3600 for free visitors guide or go at the area's official visitor information website, http://www.paradisecoast.com . Follow us on Twitter at @ParadiseCoast and find us on Facebook at facebook.com/TheParadiseCoast.