Around 4.89 million people are set to visit the Czech capital this year
which makes it the ninth most attractive city in Europe, according to the
MasterCard Index of Global Destination Cities for 2014. London, with an
estimated 18.7 million visitors, tops the global index, followed by
Bangkok, Paris and Singapore. Prague, which last year ranked 10th among
Europe’s most popular destinations, is supposed to attract 400,000 more
visitors than in 2013, and 1.1 million more than in the previous year.
MasterCard CEO for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Miroslav Lukeš said
that in total, tourists are expected to spend around 3.8 million dollars on
each day of their stay in Prague.