The Seaside award went to 49 beach resorts near towns and 58 rural ones.
The 50th State has no shortage of huge beach resorts but many of them could be anywhere.
Northern beach resorts like Okumatsushima were all but destroyed by the March tsunami, staving off domestic tourism as well.
Of the 300, 000 who visited in 1998, 90% never left the Hebrew-accented beach resorts of southern Sinai.
The TV news was full of announcements for new beach resorts, industrial parks, luxury hotels for visiting businessmen.
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Malaga airport serves major beach resorts on Spain's southern coast and is one of the busiest in the country.
But while the beach resorts in Kuta, Seminyak and Jimbaran are hot tourism destinations, the sea is not integral to island life.
At the same time, the spill delivered a severe economic blow to the region, where fisheries and beach resorts are major employers.
Colonial towns, beach resorts and a year-round mild climate have contributed to a growing tourist industry, and the economy has benefited from offshore banking.
Last year saw a slight rise, but most tourists go to the beach resorts of the Red Sea, staying away from Nile Valley sites like Luxor.
In a recent campaign, the group conducted undercover stings at the country's beach resorts, where it found an Ethiopian women was turned away from going swimming and falsely told a "members only" policy was in place.
If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows.
Riding donkeys on the beach in coastal resorts like Blackpool and Brighton was once a highlight of British vacations.
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Puerto Rico's Vieques island is getting more built up every season, so do not wait another year if you like your beach finds DIY and your resorts small and rustic.
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