The Mastercard index was more than just a ranking of top destination cities across the globe. National Gallery Singapore / Photo: Sitthisak Namkham As for 2017, Tokyo’s visitor numbers were forecast to increase by as much as 12.2 percent, making it the strongest growth in visitors among the top ten. Overall, international visitors to leading global destination cities increased in the 2016 calendar year. Of all 132 destinations across the globe, Osaka was at the top with a whopping 24.0 percent growth in overnight visitor arrivals during the 8-year period. Kuala Lumpur / Photo: Sitthisak Namkhamįrom 2009 to 2016, two ASEAN cities also saw strong growth in visitor arrivals, namely: Jakarta up 18.2 percent, and Hanoi up 16.4 percent. Meantime, Kuala Lumpur was likely to post a strong 7.2 percent gain in visitor arrivals for 2017, enabling it to keep its eighth place on the chart. The Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index predicted that Bangkok’s visitor arrivals would increase by 4.0 percent in the 2017 calendar year, while Singapore was forecast to move up one notch growing by 2.6 percent and outranking New York (at minus 2.4 percent). An anti-tourism protest was also held at Palma’s airport.Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn), Bangkok / Photo: Tanakitt Khum-on Angry locals, fed up with crowds and cruise ships, targeted hotels this summer, daubing them with slogans such as “tourism kills the city”. Palma de Mallorca is one of several destinations to have suffered from “overtourism” in recent years. Last year Turkey was the world’s eighth most visited country, attracting 37.6m tourists – up from 30.3m in 2016. Since 2010, overseas arrivals to the country have increased by 122 per cent, according to United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) figures, from 15.9m to 35.4m, making it the 10th most visited nation on Earth.Īntalya’s popularity might raise a few eyebrows, but the city on the southern coast of Turkey is hugely popular with sunseekers and the key gateway to the rest of the Turquoise Coast. The emergence of Pattaya and Phuket at the upper end of the rankings reflect a wider rise in the number of annual visitors to Thailand. At a glance | How the top 20 has changed since 2012
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