Singapore is world's fifth most-visited city

Singapore

SINGAPORE overtook New York to become the fifth most-visited city in the world last year, and was ranked fourth worldwide for visitor spending in the 2017 Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index.

With 19.41 million visitors last year, Bangkok topped the list of 132 cities for the third year running; London and Paris took second and third place respectively, while Dubai pipped Singapore to emerge fourth.

The number of visitors coming to Singapore last year - 13.11 million - was 8.8 per cent higher than the figure for 2015. The numbers in the Mastercard index differ from those of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), whi…