Guiding documents of the World Tourism Cities

Guiding documents of the World Tourism Cities

1 Goal and significanceWTCF is the first international tourism organization that unites tourism cities and develop

Release time : 2014-06-26 10:09:00

source : WTCF

repetition on the other. The second feature involves the way practicality and comparability is examined through the index selection and data processing. The evaluation indexes are ultimately used to compare multiple evaluated subjects, identifying gaps to plan for developmental goal. Therefore, the index selection and data processing should take into account data availability and standardization of statistical method.

2.2 Ranking of tourism cities

(1) The Travel + Leisure Ranking

Travel + Leisure, published in U.S., is one of the most influential travel magazines worldwide. For 17 consecutive years since 1996, it has been rated the best in travel and leisure services, including cities, islands, hotels, airlines, cruise companies, and car rental companies. The survey is structured with five categories: attraction sites, culture and art, dining, shopping, and value. The ranking is produced by a readership survey..

(2) The Euromonitor ranking

Euromonitor, started in 1972 and headquartered in London, is an internationally famous marketing consulting company. Euromonitor annually publishes ‘The Best 100 Tourism Destinations in the World', based on their analyses of tourists arrivals.

(3) The Tripadvisor ranking

Tripadvisor is one of the biggest and most popular online tourism communities in the world and the best in tourism review. It has 35 million monthly visitors, over 10 million registered members, and 25 million posts. Taking advantage of the large body of visitors, the site conducts a vote every year on the world's best tourism cities. Their 2012 ranking was based on tens of millions of tourist reviews on 440 destinations worldwide.

(4)The MasterCard Ranking

The American MasterCard International Organization is a non-profit organization that consists of financial institutions worldwide. Since 2010, the MasterCard International organization has published reports ranking the world's popular tourism destinations based on the tourist