From Japan's Spa Land, to the Las Vegas strip: The 50 most-visited tourist attractions in the world revealed

By Carol Driver

Published: 05:44 EST, 7 April 2014 | Updated: 05:49 EST, 7 April 2014

It's a bucket list every keen traveller should be ticking off: the 50 most-visited tourist attractions in the world.

Top of the list is the Las Vegas Strip, which sees nearly 40 million visitors each year, closely followed by New York's Times Square with more than 39 million tourists.

Sites in the Americas take more than half the spots - including the top nine tourist attractions in the world.

The infographic, compiled by LoveHomeSwap.com, indicates how many people flock to the popular attractions every year. And it shows the peak season for each site.

In third place is Central Park in New York with 37.5 million visitors a year.

The UK doesn't feature until spot 40, with the British Museum in London seeing 6.7 million people through its doors every year.

Japan's Nagashima Spa Land only just made it on to the list - in 50th place with 5.85 million tourists.

France's Eiffel Tower reached 38th place with seven million visitors, while Australia's Sydney Opera House came 31st, with 8.2 million, and the Great Wall of China made it into 28th place with nine million.

Top tourist attractions: The infographic was compiled by www.lovehomeswap.com

Top tourist attractions: The infographic was compiled by www.lovehomeswap.com



 

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33 of 50 not bad.

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Burnley must have come in at 51st I suppose.

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None of the those places attract me, too commercialised, I prefer to go and see the real world where there are smaller queues and less people, hate crowds.

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Las Vegas number one? I believe it but you have to realize that 50% of the visitors go there at least once a month.

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Can't understand why Clacton has been given a cold shoulder.

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i been to 5 out of the first 6 then many i never heard of, now vegas is fantastic but are they also counting the gamblers who go there, they are not tourists, t

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That's amazing. I've visited 19 of the 50!

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Why not Blackpool ?

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Ridiculous. Dozens of theme parks. The most visited in the USA or derived by Disney. Why visit the real thing while you can visit a copy somewhere else? Anyway "the most visited" doesn't mean the best or the most interesting or significant. What about the pyramids for instance, anywhere in Rome, Athens, Machu Pichu, The Taj Mahal? The Hermitag in St. Petersburg? The magnificent museum in Taiwan that houses the fabulous Chinese Imperial treasures? But of course the parochial visitors to endless Disneyworlds won't have heard of these wonders, thank heaven, it makes them pleasanter for the rest of us to visit

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I love Disney and I love visiting other places in the world too! There is nothing to stop a person enjoying both in different ways...

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I love Disney and I love visiting other places in the world too! I am off to see The Hermitage in St Petersburg again this year, first time since 1991, and I am also going back to WDW in October. There is nothing to stop a person enjoying both in different ways...

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wow that is crazy!! Vegas see's more than half the visitors than Disney World!!

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It's free to walk the Vegas strip. $100+ per person to walk into Disney World.

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yeah and hotels are cheap they are betting on that you bet!

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