The MasterCard Worldwide Index of Global Destination Cities 2011 has ranked Bangkok world’s 3rd Global Destination City with an estimation of 11.5 million visitors to the capital city of Thailand this year. London tops the list at 20.1 million visitors followed by Paris with 18.1 million tourists.
As for the highest spending rate, London still tops the chart with tourists spending over 786 billion THB, followed by New York at 609 billion THB, Paris 438 Billion THB, Bangkok 432 billion THB and Frankfurt 420 billion THB.
The index calculation was based on the information provided by OAG Global which monitors the number of passengers from each airline while their spending was taken from UN Trade in Service. There are altogether 132 cities around the world surveyed.
The highest number of visitors to Bangkok comes from Singapore (869,000 people), Hong Kong (822,000), Tokyo (711,000) Seoul (503,000) and London (456,000) respectively.
http://bangkokscoop.com/2011/06/30/bangkok-ranks-world%E2%80%99s-3rd-global-destination-city/
source: http://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news.php?id=255406300017