The top 10 cities most visited by tourists in Europe were calculated and presented in the European media by Statista agency experts in honor of World Tourism Day. However, we are talking about last year’s statistics. If the leadership of Paris is quite predictable, then in its way it is surprising that such popular cities as Rome, Venice, Berlin, and Prague did not make the list.
On the other hand, the city that is quite accessible to our tourists turned out to be in the top three – this is Istanbul.
Next, we present the entire Top 10:
- Paris – in 2022, 19.4 million tourists visited the city. Among the most crowded places are the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and Notre Dame.
- London showed a result of 16.1 million tourists. The city is attractive not only with a textbook set of the Tower and Big Ben but also with a lively nightlife, the compilers of the rating assure.
- Istanbul, Turkey – the Turkish “cultural capital” on the border of Europe and Asia did not make it to second place – 16 million people visited it
- Barcelona – 9.8 million tourists
- Valencia – 8.6 million tourists
- Budapest – 6.9 million tourists
- Madrid – 6 million tourists
- Athens – 5.5 million tourists
- Lisbon – 5.4 million tourists
- Amsterdam – the city received 5 million tourists and this, as researchers note, “caused problems in the capital of the Netherlands”.