Top 20 Global Destination - Mastercard Global Destination Cities 2013 Index

2013 MasterCard Global Destination Cities 2013 Index released in Dubai , May 29 2013 saw Kuala Lumpur in better potion compared to 2012 and 2011's index. While, Bangkok became the First Cities in Asian rank top since the index was launched in 2010.

I did some comparison between 2011, 2012 and 2013 in term of ranking ;

Rank	2013	2012	2011
1	Bangkok	London	London
2	London	Paris	Paris
3	Paris	Bangkok	Bangkok
4	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore
5	New York	Istanbul	Hong Kong
6	Istanbul	Hong Kong	Istanbul
7	Dubai	Madrid	Madrid
8	Kuala Lumpur	Dubai	Rome
9	Hong Kong	Frankfurt	Dubai
10	Barcelona	Kuala Lumpur	Frankfurt
11	Seoul	Seoul	Kuala Lumpur
12	Milan	Rome	Seoul
13	Rome	New York	New York
14	Shanghai	Shanghai	Barcelona
15	Amsterdam	Barcelona	Shanghai
16	Tokyo	Milan	Milan
17	Vienna	Amsterdam	Amsterdam
18	Taipei	Vienna	Vienna
19	Riyadh	Beijing	Beijing
20	Los Angeles	Taipei	Taipei

Air Travel Connectivity placed Kuala Lumpur at rank #6 in term of Increase in Index Valur of Air Travel Connectivity from 2009 to 2013 with 8.4% increase. ;

 

Globally, Bangkok outranked London as 2013’s number one destination city with only about 25,000 visitors separating the two – a difference of about one percent.  The Index predicts that Bangkok will draw the highest international visitor numbers in 2013, ahead of London, Paris, Singapore, and New York.

The MasterCard Index of Global Destination Cities ranks cities in terms of the number of their total international visitor arrivals and the cross-border spending by these same visitors in the destination cities, and gives visitor and passenger growth forecasts for 2013.

To read more about the report clicks here http://c15210660.r60.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MasterCard-Global-Destination-Cities-2013-Report.pdf