

HKTDC Graphic, data from Euromonitor City Bias Member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations also performed well, with Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur joining Bangkok and Singapore in the top 10.

This puts three of the global top 10 inside the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The balance of the top 10 includes two European cities (London at No 3 and Paris No 6) and one each from the Middle East and North America – the United Arab Emirates’ hub city of Dubai is at No 7 and New York City at No 8. Kuala Lumpur was at No 9 in the report and Shenzhen at No 10. “The top echelons of the city ranking are again extremely ‘Asia-heavy’,” Euromonitor Travel Consultant Wouter Geerts said in the report, with Singapore (No 4) and Macau (No 5) also in the top five.
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These figures include visitors who stay less than 24 hours, indicating that day-trippers account for a large proportion of guests in the city.Įuromonitor, which looks at those staying 24 hours or more, expects visitor numbers to Hong Kong to have grown 7% to 29.83 million for the full year while second-ranked Bangkok, Thailand should have a 5.5% gain to 23.69 million. The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) said that up to the end of October, Hong Kong received 53 million visitors. Tourist-magnet Hong Kong is keeping its position as the world’s most-visited city, based on forecast figures for full-year 2018, Euromonitor International has announced. Visitors are discovering Hong Kong’s green side (photo: )
