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). The ranking lists in first place Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic which registered 3.43 million visitors, followed by Mexico City with 3 million Lima, Peru with 2.68 million’ in fourth place Sao Paulo in Brazil with 2.25 and to complete the top five, Buenos Aires, Argentina which registers 1.85 million.Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn), Bangkok / Photo: Tanakitt Khum-on San José, the capital city of Costa Rica is considered by many as dirty, collapsed by heavy traffic, street vendors, and affected by insecurity many times, however, we have highlighted the many treasures that this city hides and that are worth discovering and apparently there are many tourists that have made their way to San José attracted by some of those jewels.Īccording to Global Destination Index 2017 a study carried out by Mastercard every year and that measures among other things the number of people that spent at least one or more nights in a city and which includes 132 countries and the activity for the year 2016, San José is the sixth city in Latin America when it comes to the number of tourists that visit.
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