Cape Town has once again proved that it is one of the world’s top travel destinations, by winning the Best World City Award at the Telegraph Travel Awards 2008.

The Telegraph, one of the UK’s leading daily newspapers, polled 40 000 of its readers in the 10th awards of its kind. Cape Town, best known for Table Mountain and the Cape Winelands, beat both San Francisco and Sydney to take the honours of world’s best city.

Cape Town Tourism’s CEO, Mariëtte du-Toit Helmbold, said: “We are thrilled with the news. Cape Town is well-placed to receive visitors looking for value for money and an authentic experience. Cape Town has so much to offer that visitors generally end up coming back to see and do more.”

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Good news for weary travellers is that Cape Town’s bus and train station in the CBD is set to be given a R480 million makeover ahead of the Soccer World Cup in 2010, with a focus on improving retail and entertainment facilities.

A local newspaper this week quoted Intersite's Pierre Cronje as saying that public/private partnerships were needed to build a new "creative Cape Town Station" of an international standard. "We need to upgrade for 2010, but also for beyond," he was quoted as saying.

An amount of R480m had already been approved for certain projects, which included upgrades of the station deck precinct, the retail outlets and informal trading areas, Cronje said.

Four concerns about the current and future station, which a survey of...