Tourism in the world cities

[Kent76]

Is there a statistic about the first 50 cities in the world for number of visitor?
I know that in 2005 in New York City there have been 42.6 million of tourists ( 7.3m foreigners ), in London 27 million (13m foreigners), in Paris 26 million ( 16m foreigners) and in Rome 16 million ( about 6 foreigners ).

[MonkeyRonin]

for Toronto I've read both 18 million and 10 million figures. no idea which is the correct one, but it would probably be 10. (although with business trips it certainly could be 18)

I thought Paris was higher too. I thought I had read a 30-something figure somewhere or another..?

[staff]

Source.

[david23]

Originally Posted by Kent76

Is there a statistic about the first 50 cities in the world for number of visitor?
I know that in 2005 in New York City there have been 42.6 million of tourists ( 7.3m foreigners ), in London 27 million (13m foreigners), in Paris 26 million ( 16m foreigners) and in Rome 16 million ( about 6 foreigners ).

In 2005 42.6 million (6.8 million international and 35.8 million domestic) tourists visited NYC. That 7.3 million figure is this year's forecast. By the by in 2003 only 4.8 million international tourists visited NYC down from an all time high of 6.8 million in 2000, so we have seen a rebound of 2.5 million in 3 years. If everything goes well NYC shall welcome 10 million visitors from abroad by the the middle of the next decade(assuming and taking into account that there will be an another minor global recession somewhere in between).

Source:http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=57

[mdiederi]

Don't know of a list for the top 50 cities, but here's Vegas.

Source: Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

2005 figures:

Visitors: 38,566,717
Hotel room inventory: 133,186 (more than any city on earth)
Average occupancy rate: 89.2%
Convention delegates: 6,166,194
Conventions held: 22,154
Domestic flight passengers: 39,316,207
Charter and international flight passengers: 2,757,593
Tourism economic impact: $36.7 Billion

[muppet]

I know Kyoto gets over 40 million each year, but the vast majority are natives.

[muppet]

I know Kyoto gets over 40 million each year, but the vast majority are natives.

[Major AWACS]

San Antonio gets 1.2 billion visitors a year. Over 500 million come during Fiesta.
San Antonio has over 300,000 hotel rooms.
My source- San Antonio forum...

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, Panties? No domo aba vas

[vertex]

Originally Posted by Capt AWACS

San Antonio gets 1.2 billion visitors a year. Over 500 million come during Fiesta.
San Antonio has over 300,000 hotel rooms.
My source- San Antonio forum...

At least they aren't homers...

[alex1]

Originally Posted by Capt AWACS

San Antonio gets 1.2 billion visitors a year. Over 500 million come during Fiesta.
San Antonio has over 300,000 hotel rooms.
My source- San Antonio forum...

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, Panties? No domo aba vas

LOL

I'm sure trere's at least one person that would say you're low balling S.A...

[TheMeltyMan]

Chalk that up to the 900,000,000 times I visited San Antonio this past year. That might have skewed the results.

[Boquillas]

Don't get too subtle with those jabs, cap. We San Antonians might not get the joke. We've been distracted trying to think of a reason to ever visit Houston or Dallas again.

[brian_b]

Originally Posted by Boquillas

Don't get too subtle with those jabs, cap. We San Antonians might not get the joke. We've been distracted trying to think of a reason to ever visit Houston or Dallas again.

You have something stuck in your throat and need to cough it out?

[MayorOfChicago]

What's the deal with San Antonio? Do they think they're hot shit?


Chicago:

18.2 million domestic leisure trips
13.8 million business trips
32 million visitors each year

1.08 million international tourists per year

30,104 hotel rooms in the city
101,926 hotel rooms in Chicagoland

[detroitismylove]

^^^ Now THAT is indeed hot stuff! I love Chicago!

[Paul in S.A TX]

Originally Posted by Capt AWACS

San Antonio gets 1.2 billion visitors a year. Over 500 million come during Fiesta.
San Antonio has over 300,000 hotel rooms.
My source- San Antonio forum...

Ciao, and Hook 'em Horns,
Capt-AWACS, Panties? No domo aba vas

Actually not quite that much.

21.7 million vistiors in 2002.

[Paul in S.A TX]

Originally Posted by TheMeltyMan

Chalk that up to the 900,000,000 times I visited San Antonio this past year. That might have skewed the results.

I'm sure the same could be said about any and every cities tourism stats.

[staff]

Originally Posted by MayorOfChicago

Chicago:

1.08 million international tourists per year

About the same as Malmö!

[cornholio]

Tourist numbers are complicated, first of all they include business travelers which are directly linked to the number of corporations, businesses and those are to a point liked to city size, family/friends visits which are again linked to city size, visitors from nearby cities which are directly linked to the sorounding population and importance of the city as a regional center, then you have actual domestic tourists which go to to the city to actualy see the city and last of all international tourist who go see the city for the city but end up traveling from abroad to do so.

A city the size of New York should be no suprise that its up there in numbers but when you actualy look at the numbers for all different types of visitors and the size of the city and compare it to other cities then the rankings change alot and New York, although high would fall below many other cities such as Florence, Prague, Paris, London, Las Vegas, etc.

[hkskyline]

Of the 23 million visitor arrivals in Hong Kong in 2005, roughly half were from mainland China, which is fueling a surge in tourist arrivals due to relaxing visa requirements for certain areas.