Wednesday, October 5, 2016

The 5 Most Visited Cities Of 2016

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Every year, MasterCard puts together its Global Destination Cities Index, which tracks airline ticket purchases, souvenir purchases and other travel spending data to figure out which cities are the most popular with tourists. Here’s how the 2016 list stacks up.

1. Bangkok, Thailand

Number of overnight visitors: 21.47 million

From decades of war to 25 years of peace

People attend an election rally in front of the National Museum in Phnom Penh in the run-up to the 1993 general election. Tim Page
People attend an election rally in front of the National Museum in Phnom Penh in the run-up to the 1993 general election. Tim Page
A special exhibition of photography marking the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords will open on Saturday at Siem Reap’s Constable Gallery At Large. The Paris Peace Accords, signed on October 23, 1991, brought stability and democracy back to a country that had been plagued by decades of conflict.
The exhibition is designed to celebrate the exceptional endurance of Cambodians in the face of the many trials they have had to face.
Resilience,