Kenyans are at pain to point out the tumble of their capital city, Nairobi having fewer visitors in the last eight months as compared to Uganda’s former administrative capital Entebbe.
A report by global payments and technology company Mastercard called the Index of Global Destination Cities revealed that Entebbe received 616,700 visitors while Nairobi had 323,859 from January to August 2016.
South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg ranks first with 3.6 million visitors followed by Egypt’s Cairo with 1.55 million, Cape Town with 1.37 million, Casablanca (1.05 million), Durban (831,051), Accra (761,872), Lagos (711,209) Entebbe, Dakar (590,487) and Nairobi in that order complete the top ten.
The cities are ranked in terms of the number of their total international overnight visitor arrivals and the cross-border spending by these same visitors in the destination cities, and gives visitor and passenger growth forecasts for 2016.
Public data is used in deriving the international overnight visitor arrivals and their cross-border spending in each of the 132 destination cities, using custom-made algorithms; paying special attention to eliminate the hub effects for destination cities such as Singapore, Dubai, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
This Index and the accompanying reports are not based on Mastercard volumes or transactional data.
