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According to statistics released today<\/a>, London took the crown as the most visited city in the world for 2013, with an estimated 16.8 million visitors in 2013, more than a million more visitors than in 2006, its previous record year. <\/p>\n Buoyed by a huge amount of publicity following a little sporting event called the Olympics (and the Rugby World Cup), visitors to London swarmed to the English capital, spending nearly $19 billion dollars on everything from hotels to Will and Kate Pez dispensers<\/a>.<\/p>\n The most visitors to London came from nearby France and Germany, but the most money was spent by those from the Middle East, who plunked down the equivalent of $293 per day per person.<\/p>\n However, it should be noted, these numbers are not in line with findings from MasterCard<\/a>, whose researchers estimated that Bangkok was in fact the most visited country in the world with 15.98 million visitors, beating out London by 200,000 visitors.<\/p>\n [The Palace of Westminster via\/Shutterstock<\/a>]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n