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The other 13 finalists, chronologically were: There was a campaign on the news programs to encourage people to vote for Chichen Itzá. Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan joined the campaign to back Petra, Jordan's national treasure. India Ī campaign to publicize the Taj Mahal in India gathered speed and it reached a climax in July 2007 with news channels, radio stations, and many celebrities asking people to vote for the Taj Mahal. Hortus said he was the only participant to receive such an apology. The Chilean representative for Easter Island's Moais, Alberto Hortus, said Weber gave him a letter saying that the Moais had finished eighth and were morally one of the New 7 Wonders. The announcement of the new World Wonders generated great expectations and the election of Machu Picchu was celebrated nationwide. An airplane message, with a huge inscription '4916 VOTE FOR CHRIST' flew in Rio de Janeiro for a month.Īn intensive campaign led by the Peruvian Ministry of Commerce and Tourism in Peru had a great impact in the media and consequently, Peruvian people voted massively for its national wonder. This number is estimated as the New 7 Wonders Foundation never released such details about the campaign. This initiative cannot, in any significant and sustainable manner, contribute to the preservation of sites elected by this public.Īccording to an article in Newsweek, around 10 million Brazilians had voted in the contest by early July. The list of the 8 New Wonders of the World will be the result of a private undertaking, reflecting only the opinions of those with access to the Internet and not the entire world. Weber's mediatized campaign and the scientific and educational work resulting from the inscription of sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List. However, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in a press release on June 20, 2007, reaffirmed that it has no link with the initiative. In 2007, the New 7 Wonders Foundation contracted a partnership with the United Nations in recognition of the efforts to promote the UN's Millennium Development Goals. The Great Pyramid of Giza, largest and oldest of the three pyramids at the Giza Necropolis in Egypt and the only surviving of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was granted honorary status. The campaigns and the organization are sometimes spelled as multiple words and sometimes as a single word. The foundation ran two subsequent programs: New 7 Wonders of Nature, the subject of voting until 2011, and New7Wonders Cities, which ended in 2014. All licensing and sponsorship money is paid to NOWC. Although N7W describes itself as a not-for-profit organization, the company behind it-the New Open World Corporation (NOWC)-is a commercial business. After the final announcement, New 7 Wonders said it did not earn anything from the exercise and barely recovered its investment. The New 7 Wonders Foundation, established in 2001, relied on private donations and the sale of broadcast rights and received no public funding. The seven winners were chosen from 21 candidates, which had been whittled down from 77 choices by a panel in 2006.

After supporting the New 7 Wonders Foundation at the beginning of the campaign by providing advice on nominee selection, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO), by its bylaws having to record all and give equal status to world heritage sites, distanced itself from the undertaking in 2001 and again in 2007. Some countries touted their finalist and tried to get more votes cast for it, while others downplayed or criticized the contest. The program drew a wide range of official reactions. According to John Zogby, founder and current President/CEO of the Utica, New York-based polling organization Zogby International, New 7 Wonders Foundation drove 'the largest poll on record'.

The poll was considered unscientific partly because it was possible for people to cast multiple votes.

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The popularity poll via free Web-based voting and small amounts of telephone voting was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber and organized by the New 7 Wonders Foundation (N7W) based in Zurich, Switzerland, with winners announced on 7 July 2007 in Lisbon, at Estádio da Luz. The New 7 Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2000 to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments. From left to right, top to bottom: Chichen Itza, Christ the Redeemer, the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Petra, the Taj Mahal, and the Colosseum

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