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Originally Posted by muppet
Yep but also bear in mind London has consistently been the world's most foreign visited city, or in the top 3 for decades. It's international visitor numbers spread out over the decades is significantly higher (and bear in mind it's hideously expensive too for many Europeans).
More importantly it also competes directly with Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Vienna etc. all of which also form top 20s. Even Dublin has 6.6 million overnighting international visitors, Brussels 9 million (Chicago is about 1.5 million, San Fran 2.9 million, LA 7 million by comparison).
In short although London may have an advantage in distance, it doesn't in expense, and especially not in competition.
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Yeah the bigger spenders are the international tourist.
But Chicago bests London by 10 million overnight tourists than London.
Day trippers not included. Both links are old but 2018 Chicago did 58 million overnights. More than LA 50 million visitors but below NYC at 65 million. Orlando believe it or not has more visitors than NYC. In the USA only Orlando and NYC has more overnight visitors than Chicago coming in at #3. If London would be included on the number of visitors in the USA it would come in at #8.
https://www.bestchoicereviews.org/tr...ist-cities-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Chicago
Chicago tourism recorded 55 million visitors in 2017.
In 2017, Millennium Park was the top tourist destination in Chicago and the Midwest, and placed among the top ten in the United States with 25 million visitors that year
https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/1/11...llion-visitors
In 2018 the city saw 57.6 million visitors, up from 55.2 million in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_London
The city attracted 20.42 million international visitors in 2018, making it one of the world's most visited in terms of international visits. It welcomed an additional 27.8 million overnighting domestic tourists in 2017
The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions indicated that the following were the Top 10 visitor attractions in 2017:
(1) British Museum – 5.9 million visits