Bangkok: Bangkok is one of the world’s top tourist destination cities. MasterCard ranked Bangkok as the top destination city by international visitor arrivals in its Global Destination Cities Index 2016, ahead of London with more than 21 million overnight visitors informed Sandeep Marwah Managing Director National Federation of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives of India Limited.
Euromonitor International ranked Bangkok fourth in its Top City Destinations Ranking for 2016 learned Marwah during his stay at Siam Kempinski Hotel at Bangkok. The city was also named “World’s Best City” by Travel + Leisure magazine’s survey of its readers for four consecutive years, from 2010 to 2013.
As the main gateway through which visitors arrive in Thailand, the majority of international tourists visit Bangkok to the country. Domestic tourism is also prominent. The Department of Tourism recorded 26,861,095 Thai and 11,361,808 foreign visitors to Bangkok in 2010. 15,031,244 guests, who occupied 49.9 percent of the city’s 86,687 hotel rooms, made lodgings.