Named the most flooded by tourists cities in the world
Mastercard has prepared the annual index of Global Destination Cities 2017, which is the rating of the 132 most popular tourist cities around the world.
The Independent leads of the first 30 positions of the ranking.
In the first place was Bangkok (Thailand) — this year he has seen a 20.2 million tourists. It is followed by London (20 million visitors), and for British capital — French, from 16.1 million tourists.
Travellers are not averse to warm up in Dubai (16 million visitors) and admire the technologically advanced Singapore (of 13.45 million). Japanese Tokyo this year attracted 12.5 million tourists, and Seoul a little caught up with the Tokyo index — 12.44 million
All roads lead to new York, and in 2017 there have reached 12.4 million tourists. Malaysian Kuala Lumpur met 12.1 million people, and Hong Kong — 9.25 million
In the twenty included Istanbul, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Milan and another city in Japan — Osaka. Italian Rome was on the 17th line of the rating (7.3 million), dividing the last position in the top twenty with Shanghai, Vienna and Prague.
American solar-West coast was visited by a total of 11.8 million people, Indian Mumbai got 5.35 million tourists this year. To Johannesburg managed to drive 4.8 million travelers.
Moscow and St. Petersburg in the first 30 positions were not included.