![]() Mastercard’s Global Destination Cities Index, released today, quantifies this desire: since 2009, the number of international overnight visitors grew an astounding 76 percent. But, one thing has remained constant: people’s growing desire to travel the world, visit new landscapes and immerse themselves in other cultures. Over the past ten years the world has seen economic ebbs and flows, evolving global competition and partnership, and boundless technological innovation. Desmond Choong, Research Economist, The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.With a Decade of Destination Insights, Mastercard Shows the Dramatic Rise in International Travel-and the Particular Growth of the Asia-Pacific Region Tanes Petsuwan (left), TAT Deputy Governor for Marketing Communications, and Mr. For Bangkok, this amounted to 19.41 million overnight visitors and visitor spend of US$14.1 billion.Įarlier this year the Mastercard Asia-Pacific Destinations Index 2017, which is an off-shoot of the Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index also named Bangkok first among 171 destinations throughout the region.Īlso joining the casual award presentation ceremony at the TAT Headquarters in Bangkok were Mr. The Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index 2017 ranked a total of 132 destination cities around the world on their total international overnight visitor arrivals and the cross-border spending by these visitors in 2016. Donald Ong (2nd from right), Mastercard’s Country Manager – Thailand & Myanmar, on the occasion that Bangkok has recently been ranked as the world’s favourite holiday destination, taking the top spot in the Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index 2017, for the second consecutive year. Yuthasak Supasorn (2nd from left), Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), received the award from Mr.
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