What are the most beautiful cities in the world? This is a question that keeps a lot of us up at
night. I mean honestly who hasn't forgotten to do their taxes because they're totally consumed with
that age-old question where can i find the most beautiful city on the planet well today i'm gonna
help you out with that question we're looking at what 2 000 travel professionals from around
the world think are the most visually stunning cities to visit these are travel professionals
from around the globe that include travel agents cruise directors travel bloggers travel vloggers
travel photographers and one 72 year old retiree named stu that considers himself quite the shutter
bug this video is the opinion of those travel professionals when you want to leave that
comment and say that this list is biased you are correct it is opinions are biased that's
sort of the whole idea behind an opinion you might as well have said this list is made by
humans we're all biased about everything on this list i'm going to give you those cities how many
people visit every year and some things you need to see if you do visit the world is somewhat
getting back to normal and it's time to travel get it got it good let's take a look
number 10 singapore i think most people that have ever been to singapore kind of agreed this is a
very beautiful city singapore is officially known as the republic of singapore and it's a sovereign
island country and city state in southeast asia about 85 miles north of the equator it
is on the southern tip of the malay peninsula singapore is really not that big but they see
about 19 million visitors every single year now this is pre pandemic years so we're talking 2019
2018 2017 this is about what they averaged and that's overall you might find other stats that
say they only had like 8 million or something like that but those are going by flights and
how many people were on the flights things like that overall they claim that they see about 19
million visitors a year if you do visit singapore travel professionals suggest that you go to the
fullerton hotel in singapore that is a classic historic hotel and they say visit gardens by
the bay there's a lot of different gardens in singapore this is one of the better ones
number nine lisbon portugal lisbon is the capital and the largest city in portugal with an estimated
population of about 550 000 residents now the whole metro area around there has almost 3 million
but they got about 550 000. i've always felt that portugal sort of an overlooked european country
you always hear about france italy germany uk spain you even hear more about switzerland and the
netherlands than you do about portugal even though it's a very welcoming historic and beautiful
country it's estimated that lisbon sees about 3.6 million tourists every year with a lot of
them coming in on cruise ships they have a pretty active cruise port there lisbon's a great place
if you're a history buff and want to see like old really nice architecture they have palaces
some really cool towers monasteries those type of things a lot of old architecture to see here and
if you want to stay in one of those old places try that avenida palace hotel that one's pretty cool
number eight amsterdam the netherlands amsterdam is the capital of the netherlands and it's known
for its really artistic heritage its canal system and their houses that are right on
top of each other that look amazing they say the homes have gabled facades legacies of the
city's 17th century golden age amsterdam seems to be one of those places that all the travel
vloggers on youtube seem to end up at least at one point they always are riding a bike
in amsterdam amsterdam is an amazingly beautiful city though i mean it just kind of makes you feel
like you're going back into a historic novel or something like that now there's a lot of things
to do in amsterdam but one of the main things you need to do is just walk around the city just
walk around and enjoy it take some pictures it's a beautiful place the city itself is the attraction
at least that's my opinion when it comes to places to stay they have all the typical marriotts and
hyatts and all that stuff but one place that isn't that big that gets good reviews is the
amsterdam canal hotel that's right there along the canal obviously if the name didn't tip you off
and it's an old school-like apartment building that's been turned into a hotel it seems like
amsterdam sees about 8.8 million tourists every single year they get a lot of business travelers
too which i don't think are counted in their tourism thing number seven cape town south
africa cape town is one of those places you never really think about i mean i know about
cape town and it's been put on my radar mostly from watching casey neistat's vlogs over the
years his wife's from cape town i've never been to cape town but it looks beautiful
between some beautiful coastline and some mountains like right behind the city it's
mountains and then you got the ocean and beautiful beaches walking and hiking around cape town it's
like one of the more popular things to do for tourists hiking up to lion's head is one of the
more popular hikes which you could get up the top there and it's beautiful you could just see the
entire city the ocean it's great now this kind of strange cape town is one of south africa's three
capital cities one of the places everyone suggests you stay in cape town is the president hotel cape
town draws about five million tourists annually i would have thought more than that but i guess it's
really hard to get to not really hard to get to but it's a little out there i mean there's
nothing else really around it that people be going to like if you're in you know europe you can hit
spain portugal the netherlands all in one you know week but this one's kind of out there by itself
number six barcelona spain this one i totally agree with i would have actually put barcelona up
there a little bit higher but this is what those travel professionals say barcelona is an amazing
spanish city great architecture festivals all the time just a great city to visit this is another
place that is big when it comes to architecture if you want to see old historic buildings just
beautiful churches go to barcelona it's also a great place if you like to drink wine it's also
right there in the mediterranean so there's plenty to do in the water barcelona is also
another hot spot for cruise ships to come cruising through matter of fact one of the best hotels to
stay at is it's not one of the historic ones they've got a lot of historical buildings that
have hotels and stuff but one that's highly rated and a lot of people like to stay in is eurostar's
grand marina you could stay there and wait for your cruise ship to come in barcelona sees more
than 27 million visitors a year now i'll remind you this is 2019 and you know before it's been a
little bit sparse lately in most these places for example in 2021 barcelona saw less than 5 million
tourists and in 2020 they saw a little over 3 million there are organizations that say that
they only see about 15 million a year but their tourism board says they see about 20 million
number five vancouver canada yeah vancouver bc it's a nice place i don't know if it belongs on
a list of the most beautiful cities but here it is according to the travel professionals and i mean
who can argue with the travel professionals i will actually be in vancouver bc in 21 days so uh yeah
i'll give it another look it's been a couple years last time i was there they had a pretty
good homeless encampment going on in one of the parks i walked by but people do consider vancouver
one of the most beautiful cities on the planet this is another one that's really big with cruise
ships and if it's a beautiful city normally it's attracting cruise ships cruise ships are most the
time filled with a lot of older people a lot of older people don't want to go to theme parks stuff
like that they want to see beautiful cities they want to explore the world and this is why they get
cruises from my personal experience i've stayed in like four different hotels there and one of the
higher rated ones is the roads wood hotel which is down by the cruise port i've stated that one it's
a nice hotel it's really nice there's a lot to do in vancouver just like any major city there's all
kinds of tours you could take that'll take you on hikes out in the mountains around vancouver
you could also go whale watching which is pretty cool i grew up in a town where whale watching was
a big thing but we just saw the migration of like the blue whales in vancouver you can go out and
see like orca stuff like that they also have a ton of really cool gardens that's one of their
main attractions vancouver sees about 20 million tourists annually number four venice italy yes
no list of beautiful cities would be complete without venice you know one other major italian
city that's not on here i really thought we'd see rome but then i start thinking about it rome is
more of a historic city and less of a beautiful city it is beautiful but when you're talking the
top 10 yeah they're a little on the outside of that historic though they're probably number one
interesting thing about venice because the pandemic and less people and less cruise ships and
less everything a lot of the sea life came back to the canals and stuff like that and the water
was clear i'm sure it's gonna go back to its same murkiness that it's been for you know the last 40
years but that was kind of an interesting thing fewer people made the water clear i think that's
amazing sightseeing and walking around the city taking gondola rides that's what you do in venice
there's plenty of things to do but most people just go there to take it in eat some food see
how beautiful this city is take some tours walking around the city it's an amazing city my son who's
editing this video uh he spent a lot of time there he was stationed in italy and venice was like i
think two hours away from him i just looked it up it's a little over an hour away venice sees
about 20 million tourists annually in 2020 venice saw about 900 000 tourists that's it 20 million
to 900 000 2021 they moved up to 1.5 million but they were you know far off from their 20 million
we'll see what 2022 and 2023 brings them one of the best places to stay is altheatro palace
number three london england united kingdom everybody knows london and everybody knows that
it's a historic and beautiful city now it does have some areas you probably don't want to be in
and that's with every city on the planet any place there's human beings or alligators or crocodiles
there's potential for some danger london's no different london is a beautiful and historic
city and a lot of people visit there every single year you can go see buckingham palace hyde park
kensington palace big ben the london eye you gotta see st paul's cathedral while in london make sure
you ask a local where the thames river is and then stand there and wait for them to correct
you it's actually pronounced thames and it's the river thames not thames river or thames river back
in the day this is how everyone got around london i mean on personal boats on water taxis whatever
they had this is how people got around london this river goes all the way through the middle of town
or the city london normally sees about 30 million visitors a year in 2021 they saw about 2.5 million
visitors if you're looking for a good place to stay check out the sea containers hotel that's
an interesting place number two new york city yeah that's a little strange i didn't expect to
see new york city on this i mean it is one of the most traveled two cities on the planet got tons of
things to do tons of things to see i just never thought it was that beautiful i mean it's a nice
city like every place like i just said about london's got some areas you gotta stay out of
but overall new york city is a decent place i just don't know if i would consider it one of the most
beautiful cities on the planet especially number two what do you think now this obviously is only
going off major cities and i'm sure you could find some smaller cities in the united states like i
think charleston south carolina's probably one of them a lot of small cities up in new england that
are even more beautiful but this is obviously going on major cities and only a major city
can pull in tourist numbers like new york city can 66.6 million visitors annually that's what
they average in 2020 that number dropped down to 22 million but 66 million people's a lot of people
come to a city no matter how big it is obviously if you're gonna go to new york city you gotta go
see times square that's like the biggest draw of course you're gonna go see the statue of liberty
which is technically in new jersey there's some interesting ins and outs of that whole thing it
takes its own video but yeah it's technically in new jersey's waters and i'm sure more than once at
some bar in new jersey some dudes have thought you know what that's our island we gotta get out there
and take it and in the sober light of day they couldn't find a boat so the raid was over when
it comes to hotels in new york city there's just too many to name i mean you're probably gonna want
to stay downtown in manhattan uh maybe chelsea something like that but it's wherever you're
gonna stay you gotta choose one and there's a lot to choose from so i'm not even gonna get into it
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knows all right on to number one and number one paris france yeah who didn't see this one coming
this again is on the surface yes paris france is one of the most beautiful cities but it's also
pretty dirty in a lot of areas that have turned a lot of people off but it's still a beautiful city
and travel professionals agree it is one of it is the most beautiful city actually on the planet
paris sees about 19 million tourists every single year now i did a little deeper digging into that
one because that seemed kind of low and i did see some reports that claim they see closer to 30
million on a normal year now they took it pretty hard in 2021 they only saw about 12 million and i
saw another report that said it was closer to 5 million so i'm not sure about their numbers but
it's still considered one of the most beautiful cities on the planet if you've ever been to paris
you're probably going to say that's a little dirty i guarantee someone's going to say that in the
comments section and it's still beautiful though and historic this is another one where i don't
feel comfortable telling you where the best hotel is that's up to you depending on what you want to
see and what you want to do i mean it's kind of central to everything you'll see eiffel tower
the louvre tons of museums palaces maybe you just want to tour the city on your own take pictures of
great architecture and visit parisian cafes and mispronounce croissant and watch the
waiter or waitress kind of cringe saw one local parisian girl on her video she said
that more than once people have asked her where starbucks is and she said don't ask
that it's a good way to get at least a bad look possibly slap i doubt people are going that far
but there's some french people that'll uppity when it comes to their uh cafes and stuff like that
all right that is the most beautiful cities on the planet uh very interesting video kind
of a little different hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it
now go out have a great day and be nice to each other