Singapore 2nd Most Popular Destination In Asia Pacific

Source: Master Card

As Channel News Asia reports, the Republic is Asia Pacific's second-most popular destination, with 11.81 million international visitors in 2015, according to a MasterCard index. 

Bangkok clinched the top spot with 21.9 million visitors and Tokyo narrowly came in third behind Singapore with 11.76 million visitors.

The annual Asia Pacific Destinations Index ranks 167 destinations from 22 countries in the region - including island resorts as well as towns and cities - by their total number of international overnight arrivals, cross-border spending and the total number of nights spent at each destination, MasterCard said in a news release on Wednesday (Jan 27). 

The study showed that the highest number of tourists coming to Singapore were from Indonesia (16.1 per cent), China (13.9 per cent) and India (7.3 per cent).
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