The locations were determined by an analysis from the website that is visited by about 25 million users a month.

It combined input from travellers' favourite places, popular hits from the website's six million registered users as well as analysis of forums and summaries from about 15 million reviews.

Milford Sound and Queenstown have been named the top two destinations in the world by members of the world's largest online travel community.

The two New Zealand destinations were named in the Travellers' Choice Awards top ten ahead of Cayo Largo in Cuba, Rhodes in Greece, and California's Lake Tahoe.

The Greek island of Rhodes was voted top European location, joining seven other European cities in the top 20...

Rhodes was voted the fifth most popular world destination...
Salzburg was the next most favourite European destination...
Bath was the highest-ranking British destination.
Five UK locations made the top 100.

Italy...seven cities in the top 25 European destinations - the southern city of Amalfi the highest ranked at 15th on the worldwide list.

Other European locations... Siena, Italy (15), Dingle, Ireland (18) and the ...Bruges, Belgium (20).

"What the destinations have in common is a something special that makes them truly exceptional in the eyes of travellers around the world," TripAdvisor European communications manager, Ian Rumgay, said.