There were also welcome inclusions for other Irish attractions, with the Emerald Isle’s Top 5 being named as Kilmainham Gaol, the Little Museum of Dublin, the Tenement Museum, the Irish Rock ‘n’ Roll Museum and the Cliff of Moher.
The awarding of the world’s best museum to Kilmainham Gaol was done by tabulating all reviews left on the Tripadvisor site over a 12-month period, which saw the attraction receive 19,737 ‘excellent’ reviews from a total of 24,408. Clare’s Cliffs of Moher also featured strongly in the travel site’s recommendations, placing highly in their ‘bucket list’ experience category. It was named fourth best in the world behind only the Dubai Red Dunes, Peru’s Incan trail treks and Alaska’s Juneau whale-watching tour.The top three tourist experiences in the world according to Tripadvisor users were the Grand Circle Island and Haleiwa Tour in Hawaii, the Thai cooking course in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the Ubud tour in Bali.