Holy City Named Among the Top 25 Best Travel Destinations in the World

By Dan Wooding

Founder of ASSIST Ministries

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (ANS) -- TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel site that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting reviews and opinions of travel related content, has named Jerusalem as as one of its leading travel places to visit in the world in their Travelers’ Choice® destinations in 2011.

Dan Wooding prays at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during a recent visit

“We are excited to have Jerusalem named the 13th best travel destination in the world by TripAdvisor,” said Haim Gutin, Tourism Commissioner, North and South America.

Other cities named in the top 25 travel destinations include: Cape Town, South Africa; Sydney, Australia, Machu Picchu, Peru; Paris, France; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; New York City, New York; Rome, Italy; London, United Kingdom; Barcelona, Spain; Hong Kong, China.

Jerusalem is a holy city to the three major Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

To see the whole list of top 25 travel destinations on TripAdvisor, please visit www.tripadvisor.com/tcdestinations.

For more information about travel to Israel, please visit: www.EvangelicalIsraelExperience.com.

Dan Wooding, 70, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 47 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC. He now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Besides this, Wooding is a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 200 countries. You can follow Dan on Facebook under his name there or at ASSIST News Service. He is the author of some 44 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, has also recently released his first novel “Red Dagger” which is available this link.

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