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Bogota is the fifth most popular destination city in Latin America and the Caribbean, a study by global credit card company Mastercard showed Tuesday.
Latin America’s most popular travel destinations
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According to the credit card company’s ranking, some 1.4 million people traveled to Bogota in 2011, almost half of top destination Sao Paulo.
Travel to the Colombian capital grew 15.2% compared to 2011
Bogota occupied this third spot of the Mastercard ranking in regards to visitor spending. According to the index, visitors spent $2.1 billion, 22.1% more than the year before and only 66% of the total amount of money spent in Sao Paulo.
According to local statistics, approximately 80% of Bogota’s foreign visitors are business travelers.
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