{"id":40196,"date":"2016-02-17T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xomoxcodev.com\/?p=40196"},"modified":"2016-02-17T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:30:22","slug":"bangkok-ranked-asias-most-popular-city-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/bangkok-ranked-asias-most-popular-city-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok: Ranked Asia\u2019s Most Popular City Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>THERE really is no place like Bangkok. It\u00a0has been ranked\u00a0the most popular city in the Asia region once gain in terms of foreign visitors, seeing almost double the number of its closest competitors, Singapore and Tokyo and definitely better than shallow, materialistic money loving Shanghai\u2026 also aptly the Whore of the Orient.<\/h2>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s dominance of the Asia Pacific tourism industry was on stark display in MasterCard\u2019s inaugural\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.mastercard.com\/asia-pacific\/files\/2016\/01\/Report-MasterCard-Asia-Pacific-Destinations-Index.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asia Pacific Destinations Index<\/a>,\u00a0which was released yesterday. Sitting at the top of the list, Bangkok received 21.9 million foreign visitors in 2015, followed far behind by Singapore and Tokyo \u2013 both at 11.8 million.\u00a0Kuala Lumpur came in fourth at 11.3 million visitors.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s remarkable is other Thai destinations also sat on the Top 20 list, outpacing the number of foreign arrivals in brand name metropolises. Phuket took 5th place with 9.3 million arrivals, beating Seoul\u00a0(6th place \u2013 9.2 million)\u00a0and Hong Kong\u00a0(7th place \u2013 8.3 million).<\/p>\n<p>The Thai coastal city of Pattaya claimed a respectable 8th place with 8.1 million arrivals, edging out the Indonesian tourist haven of Bali\u00a0(9th place \u2013 7.2 million). It seems the lure of the \u2018Land of Smiles\u2019 is irresistible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/asiancorrespondent.com\/2015\/06\/thailands-uneasy-reliance-on-chinese-tourism-just-keeps-getting-bigger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thailand\u2019s uneasy reliance on Chinese tourists just keeps getting bigger<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bangkok also tops other metrics in the report. It takes the number one spot for the total amount of nights stayed by tourists \u2013 107 million nights. The next Southeast Asian city, Kuala Lumpur, comes in third with 68.5 million nights. When it comes to tourist expenditure, Bangkok again rules the table. Tourists spent the most amount of money in the Thai capital\u00a0(US$15.2 billion), followed by Seoul\u00a0(US$14.4 billion)\u00a0and Singapore\u00a0(US$14.1 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Chinese tourists are the driving force behind Thailand\u2019s spectacular performance. Over 70 percent of the growth in foreign arrivals at the big three Thai destinations (Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya)\u00a0are attributed to tourists from mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s ultimately driving Thailand is the Chinese,\u201d said Matthew Driver, MasterCard\u2019s Asia-Pacific group executive for products and solutions, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-asiapac-tourism-thailand-idUSKCN0V512I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THERE really is no place like Bangkok. It has been ranked the most popular city in the Asia region once gain in terms of foreign visitors, seeing almost double the number of its closest competitors, Singapore and Tokyo and definitely better than shallow, materialistic money loving Shanghai\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,27,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-hotels-accommodation","category-travel","category-51","category-27","category-39","description-off"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"zh","enabled_languages":["en","zh"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"zh":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xomox.dev\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}