“Food and culture are also available in abundance.
“Despite their size, they are both relatively easy to navigate for a tourist, and even in Bangkok, English is often all you need to get around. “This is an impressive achievement and it is similar qualities that have kept them both at the top,” said Eric Schneider, group head of MasterCard Advisors, Asia-Pacific. London and Bangkok have taken the top two spots in the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index for the last five years. New York came second in visitor spending at $17.37 billion. Not only will London have the most travelers, it’s estimated to see the most visitor spending, at $20.23 billion in 2015.
London will welcome 18.82 million overnight visitors in 2015 whereas Bangkok will receive 18.24 million. London came first in the study for the second year in a row.īangkok lost its first place ranking in 2013, largely due to political unrest.īut the report suggests that the Thai capital is showing signs of recovery and closing the gap with London. MasterCard has just released its annual travel study, the Global Destination Cities Index, ranking 132 destination cities around the world in terms of total international overnight visitor arrivals and cross-border spending. MORE: 50 reasons London is the world’s greatest city
London, the city of the Tower Bridge (with a new glass walkway ), drinks as dinner, royal babies and the world’s greatest tabloid headline writers, is forecast to be the most popular travel destination of 2015.
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