From towering skyscrapers to grand palaces, national museums to ancient temples, there’s a wealth of diversity across the globe. Use our tool to explore the world – filter by your tastes to see which cities have the most history, art, music, theatre, or food, and find out a little about their cultural backgrounds. What will you discover?
City blurb
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*Holidays taken between 2013 & 2015.
Theatres
Museums
Art Galleries
Work Heritage Sites
Concert Halls
Michelin Starred Restaurants
We selected the top 30 cities in the world with the highest number of overnight international visits (as described by the Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index). For each of these, we found the population, then, using TripAdvisor, we found the number of theatres, museums, art galleries, and concert halls.
Michelin star restaurants were found using the Michelin Guide, while the annual tourism spend was drawn from the Mastercard source on tourism.
Once we had complete data, we assigned each a score between 1 and 10. These scores were then included in a calculation that assigned different values to different metrics, based on how valuable we considered them to our final result.
We used this valuation and their score to form an overall score out of ten across all metrics. This was then used to rank the locations.
All research is effective as at 6 December 2016.
