City tourism statistics show how urban travel affects more than attraction queues. Recent figures for New York City, London, Paris Île-de-France, and Singapore cover visitor volumes, tourism spending, employment, hotel performance, business travel, and major events. The periods differ by source, so each figure below keeps its measurement year or reporting window visible.
Contents
- New York City tourism scale
- New York City spending, jobs, and travel purpose
- London visitor economy
- Paris tourism volume and Olympic effects
- Singapore arrivals and tourism receipts
- Hotel and visitor comparisons
New York City tourism scale
New York City welcomed 65 million visitors in 2025, according to the New York City Tourism + Conventions 2025 Annual Report. Leisure travel represented 52.4 million of those visitors, while business travel represented 12.6 million. That split gives independent travelers useful context: the city’s visitor economy is driven primarily by leisure trips, but business demand remains a substantial part of the annual total.
The city’s 2025 visitor total was almost the same as the nearly 65 million visitors reported for 2024 in New York City Tourism + Conventions’ 2024 Year-End Tourism Numbers. The 2024 figure is rounded in the source, while the 2025 report states 65 million, so the two totals should be read as similarly sized annual volumes rather than as a precise year-over-year change.
New York’s meetings market also added a major event layer in 2025. New York City Tourism + Conventions booked 1,515 meetings and events, generating almost 345,000 definite room nights. Room-night commitments connect event activity with hotel demand, although the source does not provide a separate occupancy effect for those bookings.
International travelers were responsible for 50% of New York City tourism spending in 2025. That share matters because visitor counts and visitor value are not identical measures: an international traveler’s contribution is reported here through spending, not through a supplied share of total arrivals.
New York City spending, jobs, and travel purpose
New York City’s 2025 visitors generated $55.6 billion in direct visitor spending. The broader total economic impact reached $84.7 billion. These measures describe different layers of the visitor economy: direct spending is the amount attributed directly to visitors, while total economic impact is the wider figure reported by the annual report.
Tourism supported 397,000 jobs in New York City in 2025 and generated $7.5 billion in tax revenue, according to the same New York City Tourism + Conventions report. The employment figure is a jobs measure, not a count of unique workers, and the tax figure is reported for the city’s tourism activity.
The 2024 year-end figures provide an earlier reference point. New York City tourism generated $79 billion in economic impact and more than $51 billion in direct traveler spending in 2024. Tourism spending generated more than $6.8 billion in tax revenue, and visitor-funded tax revenue saved New York City households around $2,000 each, according to New York City Tourism + Conventions’ 2024 Year-End Tourism Numbers.
New York’s arts and culture economy was also quantified in the year-end reporting. Arts and culture employment reached approximately 89,500 jobs in 2024, up 5% year over year. In 2023, the corresponding employment figure was approximately 84,800 jobs, with 7% year-over-year growth reported in New York City Tourism + Conventions’ 2023 Year-End Tourism Numbers.
The 2023 report recorded $74 billion in tourism economic impact and more than $6 billion in tourism tax revenue. International visitation reached 10.8 million visitors in 2023, up 14.9% year over year. These are legacy figures from the cited 2023 report and are presented with that report’s measurement year.
New York City’s hotel market ranked first in occupancy among the top 25 U.S. markets in 2025. Average hotel occupancy was 84.2% for the year. Occupancy is a hotel-performance measure, so it should not be interpreted as the proportion of all visitors who stayed in hotels.
London visitor economy
London received 20.6 million inbound visits in 2024, up from 20.3 million in 2023, according to the London Datastore’s Tourism in London: Recent Trends. The London Datastore also reported that international visitor spending rose from £12.43 billion in 2022 to £14.18 billion in 2024.
The city’s visitor-night measure increased from roughly 146 million in 2019 to 154 million in 2024, according to the London Datastore’s London’s Economy Today. The same source reported that visitors were responsible for 59% of all visits in 2024, compared with 52% in 2019. The figures use different denominators: inbound visits, visitor nights, and all visits should not be combined into one total.
London’s visitor economy also has a large employment footprint. London City Hall reported that the hospitality sector employed 593,000 Londoners and accounted for 9% of the capital’s employment. These figures describe the sector’s employment contribution rather than tourism-only jobs.
Campaign activity produced separately quantified results. London & Partners’ Let’s Do London campaign attracted an additional 308,000 international visitors and generated an additional £162 million in tourism spending in 2023, according to London City Hall’s Supporting London’s visitor economy. A separate London & Partners report on the domestic tourism campaign recorded £81 million in added spending and 330,000 overnight visitors to London.
The city’s attractions provide another scale marker. The Tower of London attracted 2.9 million visitors in 2024, according to VisitLondon’s London’s best attractions. That is an attraction attendance figure, not a count of unique London tourists.
Business tourism was reported separately by London & Partners at $207 million for a specified reporting period, a 32% year-over-year increase from $157 million. Because the source describes a reporting period rather than a full calendar year in the supplied figure, it should not be compared directly with London’s annual inbound-visit total.
Paris tourism volume and Olympic effects
Paris Île-de-France welcomed 48.7 million tourists in 2024, up 2% year over year, according to Choose Paris Region’s Bilan fréquentation touristique 2024. The regional total included 26.1 million French tourists and 22.6 million international tourists.
Choose Paris Region also identified 5.6 million high-contribution tourists in 2024. This group generated €6.9 billion in spending. The category is source-defined, and the supplied figures do not provide a separate definition of the spending threshold or the visitors’ average length of stay outside the legacy-period figures below.
Hotel arrivals provide a narrower time window. Paris Île-de-France recorded 24 million hotel arrivals from January through September 2024. That total was down 5.3% versus the same 2023 period and down 10.1% versus the comparable 2019 period, according to Choose Paris Region’s Tableau de bord de l’activité touristique - Décembre 2024.
The 2024 Olympic period produced short-term increases. Tourist numbers in Paris Île-de-France rose 20% from July 29 to August 3, 2024, compared with the same period in 2023. The peak increase reached 50% on August 2, 2024, according to Choose Paris Region’s Olympic-period news flash.
Event-specific attendance was also recorded. Paris had 143,000 visitors during the first week of the Olympic rugby sevens tournament. The Stade de France drew more than 183,000 visitors on August 4, 2024, for track and field events. On the relevant Olympic day reported by Choose Paris Region, Paris hotel occupancy was close to 90%.
For the Paris 2024 legacy period, tourists stayed an average of 4.5 days and spent an average of €900 per stay. These averages are legacy-period measures from Choose Paris Region’s Redefining the Future, the Paris 2024 Legacy, not general annual averages for every Paris visitor.
Singapore arrivals and tourism receipts
Singapore received 16.9 million international visitor arrivals in 2025, up 2.3% year over year, according to the Singapore Tourism Board’s Record Singapore tourism receipts from January to September 2025. The same report recorded S$23.9 billion in tourism receipts during the first three quarters of 2025, up 6.5% year over year.
The reporting windows differ within the source title and supplied figures: the visitor-arrival total is presented for 2025, while the receipts figure is explicitly for January through September 2025. They should therefore be read as separate measures, not as a complete annual spending-per-arrival calculation.
The leading origin markets contributed 3.1 million arrivals from Mainland China, 2.4 million from Indonesia, 1.3 million from Malaysia, 1.3 million from Australia, and 1.2 million from India. These five origin-market figures describe arrivals by place of origin and are not a ranking of total tourism spending.
Singapore’s hotel indicators show strong accommodation demand. Average occupancy reached 81.9% in 2025. The average room rate was S$273.56, while revenue per available room was S$224.04. The source also reported 644 new hotel keys added in 2025. A hotel key is an accommodation-room capacity measure, not a visitor or room-night total.
Singapore’s cruise sector recorded 375 ship calls in 2025 and handled more than 2.0 million passenger throughput. Passenger throughput counts the movement handled by the cruise system; it should not automatically be treated as 2.0 million unique tourists.
Hotel and visitor comparisons
The following comparison keeps the geographies and reporting periods explicit. The figures are not interchangeable: New York’s visitor total is citywide, Paris’s is regional, London’s is an inbound-visit measure, and Singapore’s is an international-arrival measure.
| Geography | Measure | Period | Reported figure |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York City | Visitors | 2025 | 65 million |
| London | Inbound visits | 2024 | 20.6 million |
| Paris Île-de-France | Tourists | 2024 | 48.7 million |
| Singapore | International visitor arrivals | 2025 | 16.9 million |
| New York City | Average hotel occupancy | 2025 | 84.2% |
| Singapore | Average hotel occupancy | 2025 | 81.9% |
New York City’s 84.2% average hotel occupancy was the highest among the top 25 U.S. markets in 2025, while Singapore’s 81.9% average occupancy describes its 2025 hotel market. The two percentages can be viewed side by side as hotel indicators, but the sources do not establish that the markets use identical coverage or methodology.
For travelers comparing city scale, London’s 20.6 million inbound visits exclude the broader “all visits” measure used for the 59% visitor share. Paris Île-de-France’s 48.7 million total includes both French and international tourists. New York City’s 65 million total includes both leisure and business travel, with 52.4 million leisure visitors and 12.6 million business visitors. Singapore’s 16.9 million figure specifically covers international arrivals.
These distinctions are useful when reading city tourism statistics for trip planning. A visitor total can describe a city or a wider region; an arrival can describe an entry event; an attraction total can count attendance; and a hotel indicator can describe rooms rather than people. Keeping those definitions attached to the number makes comparisons more meaningful.