Draft:Tourist city

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Similar to a city's economy mainly consisting of its tourism industry, a large part of that economy comes to occupy a large extent of a city.

However, whether which amount's ratio is demarcated is not fixed. For example, the estimate that "Kyoto is approximately ten percent tourist trade" is standard{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Plan |url=https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/templates/shingikai_kekka/cmsfiles/contents/0000173/173939/keikaku.pdf |access-date=April 1, 2025 |website=Kyoto City Official Website}} (Ten percent is but a tourist city. City authorities bureau also declared it a "tourist city").

A tourist city is not so compared to a regular city, businesses of sightseeing relevance, for example, the large population of people involved in accommodation (such as hotels and ryokans), the sales of souvenir shop goods, the food service industry (that is, restaurants), the transportation industry (the working and operation of taxis, buses, tour boats and the like). Moreover, people are engaged in connection outskirts businesses, for example linen dry cleaning accommodation companies, lodging companies and restaurant industries are also put into wholesaler's foodstuff production. Additionally, there is also a large amount of people engaged in tourist information (tour guide companies).

As a result, tourist cities also establish regions to protect tourist attraction scenery.

; The world's main tourist cities

Entries are listed in the form of "Name of city (Country name)."

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• Las Vegas （America）
• Hong Kong (China）
• Bangkok (Thailand）
• London （United Kingdom）
• Paris（France）
• Macao （China）
• Dubai （United Arab Emirates)
• New York（America）
• Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
• Singapore
• Istanbul （Turkey）
• Delhi (India）
• Antakya （Turkey）
• Shenzhen （China){{Efn|※1980年代は製造業が強く、観光業のほうは非常に小さかったが、近年観光も伸びてきており2019年版の『ロンリープラネット』でトップ10入りした。}}
• Mumbai（India）
• Phuket（Thailand）
• Rome（Italy）
• Tokyo （Japan）
• Pattaya （Thailand）
• Taipei （Taiwan）
• Mecca （Saudi Arabia）
• Guangzhou （China）

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• Prague （Czech Republic）
• Medina （Saudi Arabia）
• Seoul （South Korea）
• Amsterdam （The Netherlands）
• Agra （India）
• Miami （America）
• Osaka （Japan）
• Shanghai （China）
• Ho Chi Minh City （Vietnam）
• Barcelona （Spain）
• Los Angeles （America）
• Milan （Italy）
• Chennai （India）
• Vienna （Austria）
• Johor Bahru （Malaysia）
• Jaipur （India）
• Cancun （Mexico）
• Berlin （Germany）
• Cairo （Egypt）
• Lagos（Nigeria）

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The above is basically enumerated based on 2018 Euromonitor number of visitors.

The English version of the article, "List of cities by international visitors" has published a longer list of cities.

; Japan's main tourist cities

Sapporo, Hokkaido Hakodate, Hokkaido Otaru, Hokkaido Furano, Hokkaido Miyagi Prefecture Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture Ise, Mie Prefecture Shima, Mie Prefecture Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture Ōsaka , Ōsaka Prefecture Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture Himeji, HyōgoPrefecture Nara, Nara Prefecture Matsue, Shimane Prefecture Izumo, Shimane Prefecture Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture Karatsu, Saga Prefecture Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture Beppu, Ōita Prefecture Yufu, Ōita Prefecture Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture Naha, Okinawa Prefecture Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture