PORT BLAIR: Goa’s Agonda beach was named as India’s bestand the fourth in Asia by travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor’s travellers’ choice awards for beaches. Radha Nagar beach at Havelock has been ranked the second best in the country by the agency.
This year’s awards honours 343 beaches, including the top 25 in the world The award-winning beaches were determined based on thequantity and quality of traveller reviews and ratings for beaches gathered over a 12-month period.

Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos has been voted as the world’s best while Ngapali Beach in Myanmar topped the Asia’s category. Goa leads the way in India, with 13 winning beaches, followed by Kerala with four winning beaches. The top four Indian beaches apart from Agonda are Palolem, Radhanagar beach in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Mandrem and Cavelossim in Goa.

“India,with its extensive shoreline, is dotted with beautiful stretchesof sand and it’s great to see these gems gaining recognition globally. I am confident that the 2016 travellers’ choice beaches list will inspire even the most discerning of Indian travellers to plan and book theirnext beach holiday to some of these award-winning stretches of sun and sand,” according to TripAdvisor India. For those planning a getaway to a ‘travellers’ choice award-winning beach’, TripAdvisor has identified nearby value hotels that will help travellers plan and book their fun in the sun.