MasterCard has released its 2015 Global Destination Cities Index, which ranks Toronto as the continent's fourth most-popular tourist destination after New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. In fact, Toronto marks the only one of New York's top five international flight feeder cities not within North America.
Using data going back to 2009, the Index charts the air travel interconnectivity of 132 of the world's “most important cities” and how many visitors travel, by air, between them.
The report reads:
The Index is therefore a map of a key human dimension of global connectivity. And over the five years since its launch in 2011, this map shows consistently great dynamism and growth in air travel between these 132 cities, driven by improving infrastructure, rising discretionary spending power (especially in the expanding middle class in emerging markets), and the seemingly unquenchable thirst of an ever-increasing number of people from all walks of life to visit the world
Read the full report
here.
Source: MasterCard