To­ba­go has been vot­ed the third Most De­sir­able Is­land in the world ac­cord­ing to the 2023 Wan­der­lust Read­ers Trav­el Awards.

Last week, of­fi­cials from the To­ba­go Tourism Agency Lim­it­ed (TTAL) went to Lon­don to ac­cept the Bronze (third place) award in the Most De­sir­able Is­land–Rest of World cat­e­go­ry.

The Gold award went to Cu­ba, while Tai­wan se­cured the Sil­ver.

Last year, To­ba­go placed fourth in that cat­e­go­ry. Last year’s win­ner, Palawan, slipped to fourth.

Chair­man of TTAL Ali­cia Ed­wards, said, “This Wan­der­lust Read­ers Trav­el Award is a tes­ta­ment to To­ba­go’s time­less al­lure and the tire­less ef­forts of the team here at the To­ba­go Tourism Agency Lim­it­ed. We are ho­n­oured to be recog­nised once more as one of the most de­sir­able is­lands in the world, as this ac­co­lade not on­ly el­e­vates To­ba­go’s pro­file with­in the pub­li­ca­tion’s own es­teemed trav­el trade com­mu­ni­ty, but re­in­forces our is­land’s ap­peal to dis­cern­ing trav­ellers world­wide.”

In a re­lease, TTAL said, “In the wake of this achieve­ment, TTAL looks for­ward to lever­ag­ing this ac­co­lade to pro­pel To­ba­go even fur­ther on­to the world tourism map, achiev­ing un­prece­dent­ed suc­cess in the pur­suit of its strate­gic ob­jec­tives.”

Chief Sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Far­ley Au­gus­tine and Tashia Bur­ris, Sec­re­tary of Tourism, Cul­ture, An­tiq­ui­ties and Trans­porta­tion, trav­elled with TTAL’s mar­ket­ing of­fi­cials for the event on No­vem­ber 7.

They joined hun­dreds of the world’s fore­most trav­el lead­ers at the British Mu­se­um for the re­sults cer­e­mo­ny of the 22nd Wan­der­lust Trav­el Awards.

Wan­der­lust is the largest trav­el mag­a­zine by cir­cu­la­tion in the UK and has been host­ing the Wan­der­lust Read­er Trav­el Awards for over two decades.

The 22nd edi­tion of the event was a record break­er, with more than 91,000 votes re­ceived from across the globe.

Wan­der­lust’s read­er-vot­ed awards were an­nounced across 20 cat­e­gories, cel­e­brat­ing the world’s best re­gions, coun­tries and is­lands.