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5 Indian cities named in Mastercard's top 100 global destinations' list

Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and Pune have featured in the Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index.

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Five Indian cities have made it to the Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index of 'Top 100 destination cities for 2016', with Mumbai ranking at number 27, Chennai at the 30th rank, New Delhi at number 48, Kolkata at 62nd rank, and Pune at the 91st, MasterCard said in a press release. 

In the Fastest Growing Destination Cities category, Mumbai and Chennai ranked 14 and 19, respectively, with at least one million overnight visitors in 2016.

Furthermore, Mumbai was the only Indian city to secure a spot in Asia Pacific's 'Top 10 Destination Cities', in terms of International Overnight Visitors in 2016. With 4.86 million visitors along with a visitor spend of $3.6 billion (nearly Rs 23,949.9 crore) in 2016, Mumbai ranked 10th, with Shanghai preceding it.

MasterCard's Vice President, Marketing, South Asia, Parag Bhatnagar, said, "With an evolving business landscape and thriving tourist destinations, India has been witnessing a high influx of overseas travellers for both business and other purposes." 

He further added, "It is interesting to see five Indian cities making it to the Top 100 destination cities globally for 2016. This trend also projects a huge potential for Indian cities to develop as global hubs for investment in terms of business and tourism alike.”

The Mastercard Global Destinations Cities Index ranks 132 most visited cities around the world, and focuses on visitor volume and spending estimates to understand how people travel and spend around the world. It also looks at the total number of international overnight visitor arrivals and cross border spending by these visitors, to give visitor and passenger growth forecast. 

With an estimated 21.47 million international overnight visitors in 2016, Bangkok topped as the 'leading destination city by international overnight visitor arrivals'.  It was followed by London (19.88 million visitors), Paris (18.03 million visitors) and Dubai (15.27 million visitors). 

Asian cities have a strong hold in this index with cities like Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, and Seoul making up half of the global top 10 cities, while Osaka, Chengdu, Colombo, Tokyo, Taipei, Xi'an and Xiamen were seven of the 'top 10 fastest growing destination circles'.

Elsewhere in the world, London was named as Europe's top feeder city in terms of visitor and spending volume, while Lima was named Latin America's fastest growing city and top visit destination with 4.03 million visitors. 

With a fourth global rank, Dubai was the Middle East and Africa's top ranked destination city whereas Abu Dhabi topped as the region's fastest growing city since 2009, making United Arab Emirates (UAE) the region's fastest growing country for the second time. 

New York ranked fifth globally, and was North America's top destination city with its overnight visitor spending summing up to $18.50 billion (nearly Rs 1.23 lakh crore) in 2016.

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